rjo98
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Even Dr Gutmann says 35 passes is pointless. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method
A Simple one pass overwrite provides sufficient obliteration of data, and is the fastest overwrite. If you try to recover you will get just meaningless letters, numbers & symbols.
Thanks Kroozer, i'll read the link, kinda funny even if the creator says its pointless.
So I guess that leaves my question as if its possible to add that second option. Guess the point is really moot then because a single overwrite would be sufficient.
I wonder why there's all these different overwriting methods available if all you really need is one pass.
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useless to do stick with one secure overwrite. you'll kill your drive early if you gutmann it so much
Why is it useless? I thought Gutmann made it harder to recover the data? I only run Gutmann after I do online banking, so its not doing too much damage I wouldn't think.
Is there a way to make a one secure pass right click option then? I'm just looking for a way to avoid having to manually switch it all the time.
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I usually run CCleaner from right clicking on my Recycle Bin with the Run CCleaner option. Sometimes I just want it to clean the crap out with a normal deletion, whereas other times I want to run it with the Gutmann secure deletion method. Right now I have to manually open CCleaner and change the deletion method every time to switch it back and forth.
I know Run CCleaner as a right click uses whatever it was last set to, but is there a way to add a "Run CCleaner Gutmann" option to the Recycle Bin so it will automatically use Gutmann for that instance, then keeping Run CCleaner as the normal deletion method?
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Possibly because you have the Option 'Scan for Non-Deleted Files' checked. This will give the symptoms you describe. Uncheck it and all will be well.
That was exactly the problem, I must have clicked that option on by mistake, as I'm not trying to perform a failure recovery.
That fixed it, many thanks.
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Can someone help me understand why Recuva would show me "not deleted" files? I'm guessing maybe its files that could be recovered that have been moved around by a defrag, but that the files actually still exist on a different part of the hard drive.
What I was trying to do with Recuva was to check all the files in the list, then have it securely overwrite them all. Seems when I pick the entire list, I dont get that option. Too bad there isn't a way to just check all the ones that could be securely overwritten by Recuva, or is there?
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Just thought of another suggestion. I think the only way to schedule a defrag overnight then have the computer shutdown afterward is to enable that shutdown after defrag option for the entire program, then schedule a defrag. I could see myself then going to do a manual defrag while i'm working on things during the day and forget i have that option on then my computer shuts down on me when i don't expect it. maybe inside the schedule an option could be added to include the shutdown after defrag for just that scheduled job, not the entire program.
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No it can't. Your computer needs to be turned on so that there is power to the motherboard and for the processor and hard drives to work etc, so it can do its job of sorting files.
You can however set it to run, and turn off the PC when its finished though.
No, nothing can run while your PC is powered down, because it's not on. Like Jack said there is a shutdown after defrag option. So what you could do is use defraggler's scheduler to have it run every Friday night at 10pm, then shutdown after defrag. too bad the scheduler doesn't let you add or remove the shutdown after defrag for each scheduled job.
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I have a lot of ISO's i just keep on my hard drive for those "just in case" situations when i might need to burn a DVD I might not have handy. So I thought I'd do a move large files to the end to help my day-to-day performance, but it seems like when i have it move the large files to the end of the disk, they end up in a ton of fragments. Then if i try to defrag just those files, it defrags them but moves them away from the end of the disk. Not sure if i'm doing something wrong with defraggler or if its fixed in a newer version (just saw i'm one version behind now).
Anyone else experienced this?
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Yeah I would like to see this feature, I used to use iobit smart defrag, but then I started using auslogics disk defrag just because it was less buggier and more pristine.
Yeah, that'd be a great feature, I use that on servers with Diskeeper. But on a workstation, wouldn't using the scheduling feature already in defraggler suffice? But I agree it should be added as a feature in a future release once they figure out how to implement it, but it adds a lot of overhead to the program I would bet.
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I updated CC from 2.25.1025 to 2.26.1050 and now the problem seems to be gone. I don't now if was something they fixed in CC or it just replaced a file that maybe was corrupted and not functioning right on my PC.
I'm stumped, anyway as of right now no problems. I don't post on this type of boards unless I'm sure there is a problem, so I'm sorry if I miss diagnosed a problem.
Hope this doesn't confuse the matter even further.
I upgraded also and the problem doesn't seem to be happening anymore either. I've also been more cautios of running it while FF is open, just in case that was causing the problem as well.
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good find OverBurn. guess we'll have to wait and see what MrT or someone else says.
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Hi,
Unfortunately, we haven't been able to reproduce this problem.
Firefox must be closed for CCleaner to be able to clean cookies.
Firefox must be closed when you enter or Refresh CCleaner's Cookies screen.
What is the OS that you are using?
Was Firefox updated to 3.5.5 from a previous version?
Thanks
I do run it when its closed. and probably have ran ccleaner when FF was open also, but usually it says it will skip the FF cleaning if its open, which is fine.
XP SP3 and yes, FF was updated from 3.0.x all the way to 3.5.5. I don't recall which incremental updates i've installed along the way to get to 3.5.5, but I do know I started with 3 as the major version.
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Thanks HazelNut and MrT, just had to bump it to make sure
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Thanks for replying OverBurn. I'm surprised nobody from Piriform has chimed in yet, I know there's a few people who use Firefox in the world :-) Guess nobody else has noticed.
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CCleaner 2.25.1025 doesn't clear Firefox 3.5.5 cookies. When I run an Analyze it doesn't show any cookies need to be cleaned in Firefox, but when I open the cookies.sqlite file (located in Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\abcdefgh.default) with notepad, I see the cookies for all the sites I visited.
I have all the Firefox settings checked in CCleaner, so that's not it. For now I just manually deleted the cookies.sqlite file.
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It says it supports 2003, but when I run it in Analyze mode it doesn't even report that there are hotfix uninstallers to uninstall. I have hotfix uninstallers in C:\Windows all the way back to 2004. I just redownloaded and unzipped the latest version of the portable version to make sure it wasn't a bad or old copy.
and Yes, I have the option for hotfix uninstallers checked :-)
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Hi rjo98, and welcome to Piriform.
Some of us are aware of that fact, and I'm sure the developers will take notice of recent posts regarding this.
I believe you'll find all the names displayed on that site residing in one Flash Cookie (settings.sol file) in the following location:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys\settings.sol
You can add that file to CCleaners "Include" feature .. "CCleaner\Options\Add Folder or File".
You'll also need "Custom Files And Folders" checked in "CCleaner\Windows\Advanced" for it to work.
Hope that helps.
Thanks, I will give it a shot with the Custom Files and Folders approach for now.
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I love CCleaner, but I came across this little website that shows that my CCleaner, even though Flash Player is checked, isn't being completely cleaned.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/document..._manager07.html
I would think most people would want this crap cleaned as well. It showed a ton of websites that I had only visited once, or some I didn't even know I visited. Any thoughts from the Piriform crew?
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I see there is a sticky for using CCleaner in a domain environment, but I have a little twist. All our users have roaming profiles, and their Application Data folder is redirected to a network share. I can only imagine the loads of crap wasting space on my server from a couple hundred people. Everyone's Application Data folder is in their own D:\Home\UserName folder.
Instead of having each user have to run ccleaner from their local computer as that sticky suggested, which would make it run across the network, is there any way to just run it from the server on all of them in that D:\Home directory structure? I'm guessing not since that wouldn't give the program access to the registry. But I'm wondering if there is a way to "trick" ccleaner into using a "default" registry to know where the crap would be located in each (if that makes sense to anyone other than me haha).
Run CCleaner Gutmann right click option
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HAHA, that was my first thought ;-)
I just read that link, makes sense now. Seems the Gutmann is more of a cover all the basis for whatever type of drive you could possibly be using, when all you really need are a few passes of random.