WhiteWolf5

We often get summer help and set up a pc for them to use but when they leave, all of their cookies, desktop settings, temporary files, and all the other useless data specific to that account gets left behind on the system. After a couple years of Summer and Winter part-time employees using the same system, this becomes troublesome. I have done some manual cleanings from time to time but don't feel all that confident that I got everything (especially the registry data). It would be nice if CCleaner had a tool to completely remove a user from a computer. Of course, we don't need it to remove the network profile, just all the data and registry entries on the local system specific to the account. To address the potential security implications, you might want this tool only available to the Administrator account (not just an account with administrative privelages - Maybe make it visible but give the error; "Must be logged on as Administrator...").

This is already being done. See attachment.

Yes, [Ctrl] + [A] does not select all items in the list but if you click the top item and then drag the scroll bar all the way down and then hold [shift] while clicking the last item it will successfully select all items with no problem.

According to Microsoft "Cipher.exe is available in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or later or the Windows 2000 Security Rollup Package 1 (SRP1)". Cipher is leveraged as part of Microsoft's EFS solution and therefore should be on all Windows Operating Systems beyond Win2K SP3. However, if you type cipher at a command prompt and it tells you "'cipher' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." (or something of that nature) and are running Win2K SP2 or later, you might need to download and install the Windows 2000 Security Rollup Package 1 (SRP1). If this is not the case and you are running XP, Vista, Server '03, or something later (like Windows 7) there is a problem with EFS on your computer or cipher.exe is corrupt. (Default locations on XP appear to be; "C:\WINDOWS\system32" and "C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386" but I also found it in "C:\i386" as well as a prefetch version on one of my systems.) More information on using cipher is available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315672 Hope this helps

If you are running Windows (2000 and later) you can do like I do and have the built in utilities in Windows do it for you according to a schedule. AT = Microsoft's Scheduler Program CIPHER = Microsoft's NTFS Encryption Program Both applications are installed by default and can run seamlessly in the background. Cipher takes all available disk space on the drive/partition specified and writes zeros and random data to it making it unrecoverable by basic software-based recovery methods. For example, if you want to wipe your C:\ partition at 8:00 PM every weekday, you would enter the following command at a command prompt: C:\>at 20:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F cipher /w:C Then, at the command prompt, issue the at command without any parameters to verrify the schedule. It should look something like this: C:\>atStatus ID Day Time Command Line------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Each M T W Th F 8:00 PM cipher /w:CC:\> Of course, you can always issue the cipher command when ever you like, such as after deleting a really sensitive document. Just keep in mind that it does tie up considerable system resources and depending on the ammount of free space, can take a long time to complete. Hope this helps.

I think what Th3 N3w W041d 04d34 really is after is a central management console. You can make a Piriform Console that allows you to manage all apps from one centralized location. You just pick which component(s) you want to install. If you don't want a particular component, you don't install it. Also, depending on how you chose to implement such a console, you can make each component a separate installer so users only have to download the components they want. Personally, I'm happy with just CCleaner but I can see the merit in such a setup.

I recently found my 250 GB HDD to be about 90% full. I did some cleanup (uninstall unneeded programs, run CCleaner, etc...) and got it down to about 85% full. I decided to run defrag which eventually choked on a single 145GB file with a .tmp extension. I did some digging and found out that cipher, when used with the /w parameter to wipe unused space on your HDD creates a folder on the drive/folder specified when running the cipher command named EFSTMPWP and creates a file in that folder named "filXXX.tmp (XXX = some arbitrary number) and writes to that file to use up your available free space (it creates other files as well but this is always the largest.) and then deletes the file and folder when it finishes running. However, if the process is interrupted before completion, this rather large file might not get deleted. This was the case for me. I was able to safely delete the \EFSTMPWP folder and all of its contents and am now back down to about 77% free space on that drive. I'm not sure how many others out there run cipher regularly but it might not hurt to add detection for these files to CCleaner. Of course, there is more information available if you run a web search for "EFSTMPWP" as well as an informitive PDF file at http://www.cs.harvard.edu/~malan/publications/pet06.pdf on the Harvard University website. (Scroll down to section 2.1)