[Any precautions before using free wipe space?]

I would like to know more info and how to use it properly. I use windows XP SP3 and my GB is 75 total and 10 GB of free space.

 

i had a few teething problems getting it to wipe my clean space at first as u can see by my posts but now have sorted it out with other members help like u say it is a new update which the is not much know about it so there is a lot guess work involved to iron the little problems but finally i got it to work it took about 550 seconds to complete the task i had 18gb of free space to clean as far as i can see it as done no harm to my laptop or my home pc

 

when you delete something of ur hard drive you only delete the shortcut so the program/files are left on the drive so when you run c/cleaner's "wipe free space" its replaces the programs/files with zeros

 

i find it ok to use

 

jon

[User IDs and Passwords]

How do I stop CCleaner v2.17.853 from deleting my User IDs and Passwords?

(For example, for Windows Live Hotmail)

 

(My browsers are Internet Explorer v7.0.5730.13 and Firefox v3.0.6)

 

 

in c/cleaner main window under the windows tab untick the box next to "autocomplete form history" this should solve your problem

 

 

let me know how u get on

 

 

jon

[wipe free space]

Try checking to make sure that it does the operation but does not report it. It could also be that a file is refusing to get deleted and Ccleaner is not saying it is finished because of it.

If it is the first problem, simply ignore it. If it is the second, manually find and delete the file yourself and Ccleaner will be running normally. It could also be that Ccleaner is not in administrator mode, which would prevent it from getting access to the files it wants to delete. Just guesses but hopefully correct ones.

 

 

thank you for ur help

 

i run c/cleaner as aministrator an got the same result then i unticked all the boxes in c/cleaner except "wipe clean space" oh yes i also ucompressed my drive so with the above 3 things done then i run c/cleaner and it worked

 

 

once again thank you for ur help

 

jon

[wipe free space]

sorry its me again

 

when i run c/cleaner it will not complete its job i left c/cleaner running for in excuss of 72 hours in an atempt to wipe free space on my laptop the details of my laptop are as follows:

 

ms windows vista home basic sp1

intel celeron cpu 540 @1,86ghz,1.0gb ram, mobile intel 965 express chipset family

i have 14.7gb free of 32.5gb (hard drive)

 

now when running c/cleaner it shows that it is wiping free space in the left top corner of the results page that it as reached 100% but it keeps running and the only option i have is to cancel when i cancel it then says "cleaning incomplete"

 

please someone help me i even run c/cleaner in safe mode but got the same result

 

jon

 

 

please help me solve my problem

 

 

hellllllllllllllllllllpppppppppppppppp

why will no one help me dose ne one know wot i'm doing wrong

[wipe free space]

sorry its me again

 

when i run c/cleaner it will not complete its job i left c/cleaner running for in excuss of 72 hours in an atempt to wipe free space on my laptop the details of my laptop are as follows:

 

ms windows vista home basic sp1

intel celeron cpu 540 @1,86ghz,1.0gb ram, mobile intel 965 express chipset family

i have 14.7gb free of 32.5gb (hard drive)

 

now when running c/cleaner it shows that it is wiping free space in the left top corner of the results page that it as reached 100% but it keeps running and the only option i have is to cancel when i cancel it then says "cleaning incomplete"

 

please someone help me i even run c/cleaner in safe mode but got the same result

 

jon

 

 

please help me solve my problem

 

 

hellllllllllllllllllllpppppppppppppppp

[Windows Disk Cleanup]

You should be fine with ccleaner.

 

 

 

thank you

 

jon

[Windows Disk Cleanup]

I ran it on my new Vista system and it only found 0.5MB to remove and it wisely ignored the Prefetch files.

 

 

 

i have vista basic on my laptop so should i download and run atf cleaner or is c/cleaner just as good

 

jon

[wipe free space]

Depends upon how big your hard disk is for the time needed. Since each disk is going to have a completely different amount of free space available there's really no set time limit to speak of.

 

 

 

thank you for ur help

 

jon

[wipe free space]

how long will it take to complete "wipe free space" are we talking an hour or so or could it take several hours

 

 

from jon

 

my c/cleaner has now been running since 11:30 am and is still running is this normal ????

[Wipe free space drives in V. 2.17.853]

Ah I didn't know that. I actually set it to 3 passes cos I assumed that applied to the free space as well. Is that actually not the case?

 

-- Tom

 

 

i c wot it dose now but i have a 40 gig hd of which 16.1gb is free but wot i need to know is how long it will take to wipe my free space

 

 

jon

[Free wipe space.]

i glad u get it to wipe ur free space wot i want to know is how long dose c/cleaner take to wipe free space as i have been running it for over 4 hours now