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mr.brownstone

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  1. i hope not i really do love CCleaner always used it in xp and always referred it to all my friends and clients everyone loves it Except VISTA 64Bit <_<

     

    Yeah, I hear you. Same problems here as it has been since I moved to Vista 64 bit. I miss my CCleaner..

  2. I wouldn't get too hung up on Gutmann and his 35 passes. His paper was delivered getting on for twelve years ago and applied to what is now obsolete disk technology. Gutmann later stated that his theory had been overtaken by events and "A good scrubbing with random data will do about as well as can be expected".

     

    One overwrite will give you as good a deletion as anything else. If you hold the advance plans for the USA's invasion of Iran on your disk you shouldn't be messing about with CC.

     

    Rgds.

     

    (To any goverment agencies scanning the internet, that was a joke.)

     

    Very true about the Gutman passes, but still CCleaner should deliver as it say it will.

  3. Just to make certain I did not overlook something, I ran this test one more time. Deleted a JPG file to my Recycle Bin. CCleaner is set to Secure File Deletion - DOD (3 passes.) While the deleted JPG was in my Recycle Bin, I ran CCleaner. Indeed the Recycle Bin emptied and next I ran a good undeleter - Recover My Files. It recovered a JPG photo from the Recycle Bin and I undeleted it to another drive. The file name had changed, but as soon as I opened it - WALAHHHH ! ! - there was the photo I had 'ERASED' with CCleaner - good as new.

     

    Now, the only answer I would like is whether or not CCleaner will ever be made to truly destroy files cleaned from the Recycle Bin. It CAN be done - just install Eraser and it will prove that point. Files 'erased' from the Recycle Bin with Eraser are not recoverable, at least not by simple undelete utilities like Recuva and Recover My Files. Will CCleaner ever be able to accomplish this - as so many of us believed it has been doing all along ?

     

     

    Hmm, now this made me uninstall CCleaner and use a combo of tracks eraser pro and tuneup utilities.

    And after trying to recover files after those 2 apps, it was impossible.

    No more CCleaner in this house! Too bad, since I have used it since the beginning:(

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