kroozer

For me Eraser was flawless with Win98, a few issues on Xp, a mess on Vista (586a). Oh no, Joel.

Ditto. When Eraser trashed my pc last year I switched to CC, and do my erasing with File Shredder.

Read Criticism where Dr Gutmann explains "the full 35-pass overwrite is pointless" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttman_method

I too suspect agencies may have withheld news of their ability to recover data. Why tell the enemy your battle plans? But any sophisticated recovery system would be expensive and not impact us lowly citizens with our mundane private data.

Start → computer → (C:) → Backup. Open it up and see what's in there. Edit: I seem to remember some or all personal files were still safe under User\kroozer and I didn't have to move them out of Backup. Maybe Backup was just a depository for System Files. It all happened about 9 months ago and can't remember the details.

All may not be lost. After my first system recovery I thought I lost some personal files but soon discovered them after searching. Why not try that? Edit: See post 8 below.

System Recovery reverts your system to original condition, just like when you took the software / pc home from the store. You are now starting from scratch. All your personal stuff is gone unless files were saved in C:\Backup. Edit: I have performed several recoveries from D: partition on this Vista pc and each time the system saved my personal files. I don't remember if that was an option or automatic.

Since we are discussing Gutmann, here is an interesting item.

I don't believe any attorney would accept such case. He / she would be spending a lot of time on a case aware it had almost no chance of succeeding. And I am not aware of any success with similar suits. Below is part of the CC contract users must agree to before installing. THIS SOFTWARE IS DELIVERED TO YOU 'AS IS' AND WITH ALL FAULTS. PIRIFORM DO NOT WARRANT THE PERFORMANCE OR RESULTS YOU MAY OBTAIN BY USING THIS SOFTWARE. EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT ANY WARRANTY, CONDITION, REPRESENTATION OR TERM CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY LAW, WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS OR OTHER TERMS (EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WHETHER BY STATUTE, COMMON LAW, CUSTOM, USAGE OR OTHERWISE) AS TO ANY MATTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS, SATISFACTORY QUALITY AND FITNESS FOR PURPOSE. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION 2 SHALL SURVIVE THE TERMINATION OF THIS LICENCE HOWSOEVER CAUSED. Note: as is, with ALL faults.

Thanks for the heads up Willy. Didn't know 232 was out.

I have FF 363 and CC 230. My cookies are being kept by FF. Of course I have to shut off FF for them to show up in CC. Yes I can see how frustrating that would be because I too need cookies for banking, etc. Why not also try updating CC to 230.

Yes hazel I found out about this two years ago and don't use public copiers anymore for sensitive stuff but I have no control over what others do with my documents. We are powerless in controlling this.

Like giving someone an old computer totally free, the hard drive dies so they get angry and threaten.

How many passes are you using for wipe? I don't use Free Space Wipe so I am guessing you may have wipe set for more than one pass. I recently wiped my free space with a different program. It took 42 mins to wipe 109.9 GB free space, single pass. Think of this. If you have a large mostly-empty drive that would take one hour to wipe with one pass, it may take 35 hours to wipe with 35 passes. Any more than a single pass is pointless. Piriform provides the multi-pass feature only to appease demand by the paranoids. So if you are getting impatient (you seem to have plenty of patience if you've already lasted 24 hours), you may consider aborting and rewiping with only a single pass. Edited

You failed to mention After destruction toss it into the sea.

toubib32, bienvenue au forum. Si vous décidez de fixer ces clés de registre, il est important de permettre à la sauvegarde lorsque vous êtes invité. Backup when prompted.

I am fully aware of this. My Vista holds SVI between 13% and 15%. But, my slant on this remains, that they are just temporary files because they exist for only a few days. It is customary for English speakers to shorten (abbreviate) words to speed communication. Temp is an abbreviation of temporary. So any file that exists for a very short duration, here we are talking one week or so, is temporary, aka temp. So why defrag 'em?

I am concerned about the effect it may have on competition and free enterprise.

If they are not temporary files why are they deleted every few days? I get at least one new one every day and it deletes an average of one older point every day. That's not temporary? To me, any file that lasts a week or so is temporary - a temp file.

SVI files are just temp files. I've asked this question before, many months ago, and I will repeat. Why defrag a temporary file? It will be deleted in a few days. Even if you could defrag those files you would not notice any performance improvement.

Yup. Had to jump thru another hoop to register and make it permanent. Ran it and it says I had 292 issues and doesn't like my autorun, etc etc.

No one except me. Yup. got it! Thanx.

Got it dl'd. Tried installing, needed a promotion code, can't find it. Having difficulties with these guys. Looked everywhere.

Help me out JD, I've clicked everything there, no dl. Where's the magic button?

Casablanca. A little corny but I think it's a great film. Scrooge with Albert Finney. Favorite musical. Edit. Almost forgot my favorite oldy (1933) - 42nd Street. Awesome finale.