kbloom

Several suggestions: 1) With very large disks available, wiping unused space can take a considerable.amount of time (and disk thrashing?). Once a space has been wiped, if there is a way to tell when a particular chunk (sector group?) was last modified and remembering when the last disk wipe was done could negate the need to wipe again. And save time. 2) Wiping the unused end portion of all file allocations would aid security, probably with a lot more thrashing. 3) Wiping deleted directory entries might also increase data safety.

I suspect that some software programers use Registry Keys as flags without assigning values to them. Will the registry interfaces allow this? If so, is there a way to detect them? -- Ken Bloom

When XP totally hangs and can't be restored, I format another SCSI disk (I have 3), set it to 0 and reinstall XP and all of its updates (ugh!) . After un-hiding files and making system files visible, I copy over the application parts (bookmarks, mail lists, etc.) from the old system disk (mostly from OLD XP -> Documents and Settings-> my name. It would be nice if CC would run against any disk I choose. As an aside, does CC clear out hidden and system files if the user has administrator privileges? -- Ken Bloom