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  1. 46 mb? Well, that's goodbye for dial-uppers (and there are quite a few about). Poor old AVG, from a mere 4 mb in V6 to this bloated lot, full of stuff you don't want. I shall carry on with V7 until it expires, I think.

     

    Piriform, please don't get fat.

  2. I think that the deep scan is a little flaky at the moment. I've just run a deep scan up to 1% and cancelled it, then set Recuva back to no deep scan, and it failed in stage 2 and went into not responding mode. Cancelled it and reran OK.

     

    There must be more than two users playing with this, no?

  3. I reinstated 1.12 and installed 1.13 on a usb flash drive, with the same results (1.13 failing at the end of stage 2). After the overnight shutdown and reboot, 1.13 was working fine in shallow scan mode, so I've reinstalled it on my pc. I've no idea what the previous prob was. I'll try deep scan later, when I have a few hours to spare.

  4. Should be awesome, but...

     

    I left my pc chugging along in deep clean stage 1, at about 1% per min (so 100 mins to go). Recuva had found some 150000 files after 20 mins. When I returned later Recuva was not responding, 99% into stage 2 (analyse), analysing 15000 files. I'll try again, this certainly beats the hard drive with a large stick!

     

    Oh No! I unticked the Deep Scan option and ran Recuva. It scanned as usual, stage 1 and 2 with totals. At the end it said No Files Were Found, and at the bottom of the page shows The Parameter is Incorrect. No files are listed. I'll dig deeper...

     

    If I cancel Stage 2 (as I usually do) then the files are listed OK. It's only when Stage 2 runs to the end that I get the error. This is normal running (Shallow Scan). Stage 2 in Deep Scan would be horrendous. Make Stasge 2 a cancellable option please!

  5. You and Augeas both have me confused,I think. :unsure:

    Oh, surely not!

     

    Now I see what Zack is doing, deleting from the recycle bin. Although the files are 'deleted' to the bin, they still remain (as far as I know) in the same place as they were, i.e. on the d and e drive, but are flagged in some mysterious way that only M/S geeks know.So Cc has to delete the files in the extrenal drives when secure deletion is chosen. In normal deletion I guess that the MFT is modded and perhaps a few free space ponters are set so that little activity takes place on the ext drives.

     

    So, I suspect there is some speed problem with the e drive, peculiar to your pc setup. I have no geat ideas, set as slave, low read/write speed, badly fragged? Can you live with normal deletion? If not I certainly would only use one overwrite.

     

    PS All of my disk management knowledge comes from IBM and Teradata mainframes, all VTOCs and SVC calls and zapping free space pointers, so these pesky little boxes might not behave in the same way!

  6. There are two things here. If you found zero files with 59k ignored then you probably have something in the Filename/Path box, such as wiifreindcodes, maybe? Clear this field and you will end up with figures such as 45k found, 14k ignored. To show all files Click on Options/Advanced, and tick the first three boxes (leave last box blank). You should now have zero files ignored.

     

    How did you delete your missing file? If it went to the Recycle box and then was deleted it will have a different name, something like Dc2.txt (I can't remember the exact format, but someone else will.) But as it's a week ago the file has possibly been overwritten by now so the chances of finding and recovering it could be slim.

  7. Pluto, your 40k files listed are deleted, Recuva is finding the file names from (presumably) the Master File Table. Recuva can overwrite these deleted files if you wish, but there's no need unless you have some specifically sensitive filenames in your list. You can't - with Recuva - alter the filenames though.

     

    It has been requested before that Recuva remove the file names from the MFT, but this may be a step too far. Even if it did so the deleted files would still be in the same place, it's just that the files found list would be shorter. To be honest I wouldn't worry about them.

  8. You can include files and folders from other (non system) drives in the Include section, but CC will wipe these in their entirety: in other words the entire folder contents will go, not just 'junk' files.

     

    CC can't clean junk from multiple drives as it assumes that the system folders will all be on one drive. It can't know whether a folder called temp, or temp internet files, on another drive is valid for cleaning or a folder set up for another purpose.

     

    Looking at it from another angle, what files on non-system drives do you want CC to clean? Do you have system folders spread across multiple drives?

     

    As for removing apps, then surely Add/Remove programs, or the application's own Uninstall, will do this? If not, then CC can't do anything magical. There are other specific uninstallers, I think that Revo(?) has been mentioned here several times.

     

    In the end there's always shift/del.

     

    Surprisingly Hotdog's post is in more coherent English, but I still haven't the faintest what it means. Still, we need these individuals!

  9. As (I think) Hazel was implying, you may have a very large temp internet file folder. If you'tre not worried about secure deletion then you can quite happily use IE to clear the temp internet files initially, and then cc regularly afterwards. Anyway, CC should have finished its run by now.......

  10. On a formatted drive? With no or a new MFT? If the formatting process reallocates the MFT, or wipes all the old entries, then I think that Recuva will not have a great deal of luck. I don't think that popular software applications will be able to help. There are specialist firms that will do this, but it is expensive.

     

    Let me know if I'm wrong, which I'll be quite happy with, and I'll rethink how Recuva works!

  11. Zack, what method are you using to get CC to access your d and e drive?

    I mean er, how are you accessing your d and e drives? When CC is opened or run there is no way to access a specific drive, I guess CC references the drive the O/S is installed on, which is overwhelmingly the c drive. To clean anything on other drives the only way I have found is to drag the drive letter to the Include section and tick the Clean Custom Files box. Or I think you can include them in your cc.ini file. Maybe this is what you do?

  12. Sampson, try to get the executable address these entries point to (from the CC listing) and post them here, someone may know what they are.

     

    As they are in the startup list they can quite easily be stopped by clicking on Start - Run - (enter msconfig in the box) - OK - which will bring up Sys Config. Tab to Startup and untick the two boxes relating to the unknown Chinese entries. You will need to reboot. Your pc will startup with a box saying someting like In Diagnositc Mode, do you want to continue? If all has booted up OK then say yes, and tick the Don't Show This Again box. Now continue using the pc. If some application doesn't work you can reinstate the startups by repeating the process and ticking the two startup boxes and rebooting again, but I doubt if this will be necessary.

     

    Once you've found the exe address Google it and see what it says. If it is a pukka pgm then whether you leave it in the startup process is up to you. If it's something dangerous then report back here! Rgds.

  13. Of course. Assuming you have installed CC, on the Cleaner/Windows page tick all in the Internet Explorer section except the last box. If you're Firefoxing, under Cleaner/Applications tick all in the Firefox section except the last box. Leave the other settings as the default. Go to the Options page, Settings and tick Secure File deletion, one overwrite. Then go back to the Cleaner page and run CC. Don't run any of the other options (especially Registry) at the moment.

     

    When you've done reset the Secure Deletion to Normal Deletion and close CC. Your browsing should be restored virgo intacta.

     

    Now name your price to the 'family member'.

  14. This is what I did. I typed in google in find after going to regedit.I kept pressing f3 and delete until it told me search complete,and could not find any more google intries. Next I went to search all files and typed in google.I deleded every thing . Iwas down to the last google entry,and excess was denied. This always happens. There is always one or two entrys that won't delete. usally after I restart my pc ,I can delete them.

    Do you mean you don't use Add/Remove Programs to get rid of programs you don't want? If you don't, then I think you are asking for trouble, or at least finding it.

  15. CC is a good app for both uses. If you're like the vast majority of us (i.e you don't hold the Armed Forces' nuclear war codes on your pc) then CC is fine for secure deletion. Despite what a great many may think, there is no evidence of data ever being retrieved after one overwrite by anyone. And CC's overwrite is just as good as the next man's. If you do hold secure data, such as commercial or personal data (others' credit card details, bank details etc) then you need to follow a secure data policy which may include encryption, secure pc access, destruction of old media, etc. If you're a crook (not you personally, in general terms) then you're on your own.

  16. Unfortunately you can't reverse CC's actions (apart from reinstating a registry backup). I am not familiar with the software you describe as your startup crap, so I can't give specific advice, but my money goes on you having to set up your keyboard hotkeys again. Perhaps if you restart the media players you disabled, or the hotkey poller? Good luck!

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