kroozer

To erase individual files you can use the freeware File Shredder, Eraser, Sure Delete, etc. You can also delete the files again, empty the Recycle Bin, run Recuva, right click the file(s) and securely overwrite.

I've been wrong all these years believing partition volume isn't necessarily contiguous? That space could be widespread on the disk? 1 hr later EDIT: Some prowling on the Easeus site hints the space probably should be all together, but can be anywhere on the disk. Correction/explanation invited.

Yes, I fully agree!

My guess is Piriform offers the 35-pass option only to comply with user demand. Reading under the section head Criticism ?In the time . . ." in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method will explain it.

Gutmann is a waste of time, it won't erase anymore than a single pass. Wiping free space does not improve performance, it simply placates paranoia. Are you seeing the complete files or just file names/fragments? Can you recover any of them?

CC is just going to delete junk files from those programs. EDIT: Am sorry JD, appears we made simultaneous responses.

I won't post my desktop - just a dark gray with 5 shortcut icons. Whoopie!

Yes, I believe that was it, and you posted it !

I remember reading somewhere about Microsoft having a tool for this. Check with them. EDIT: A quick check with Cnet shows 467 free Uninstall programs.

The software is totally free. Use as many copies as you wish.

Thanks for reporting your solution, and welcome to the forum.

Mine are saved in kroozer\Documents. Can't remember if this is default. It's a 3kb doc, my last was cc_20091121_214033.

It's not included with CCleaner. I know of 2 programs that do offer it: Eraser and File Shredder (and Sure Delete?).

Don't uninstall the old version. Just install the new one - it will overwrite and save your settings so you wan't have to start from scratch.

You can do any or all: (1) delete unnecessary files, (2) transfer personal files to optical disks and flash drives, (3) leave the disk fragmented. If you follow option 2 you can return those files to the hard drive after a successful defrag. Most defraggers would consider 10% free space too little - 15% a bare minimum. When it comes to defragging, the more free space you have the smoother the defrag.

Mine are!

I'm using Vista but Win 7 is probably similar; try this: Right click the Start button, richt click C:, click Properties, click Disk cleanup, at the top of the message box click More Options, under System Restore and Shadow Copies click Cleanup, and when the message box appears click Delete. I won't lead you any further because I don't want to delete my own Restore points, but just follow any prompts. This will eliminate ALL your Restore Points and Sys Vol Info files. As soon as you create a new Restore point your drive WILL BE FRAGMENTED, and all future Sys Vol Info files will be fragmented. You have to live with this if you want the security of having Restore Points ! It is unrealistic to operate with zero disk fragmentation. My system currently is 58% fragmented and is running very fast on a Celeron 440 ! When I delete my Restore Points frag drops to about 14% and it still runs just as fast.

I suspect John's drive lacks a large enough free area, forcing some data to be moved numerous times.

Shouldn't hurt it - it'll simply be in less fragmented shape than before. If and when you restart, it'll just resume where it left off.

Click on Tools, then System Restore. Highlight all the Restore Points you wish to delete then click on Remove.

Based on my long experience with CC, my totally biased opinion is that CC is not at fault and you should aim your sites at McAfee. Unfortunately, because I don't use that (McAfee's) distinguished software I cannot assist you in that endeavor.

Just now ran CCleaner. Analyze 29.9 MB, Complete 45.9 MB. The difference was in Windows Log Files: 1 KB before, 16,385 KB after. So Windows Log Files are not being fully analyzed.

In these few minutes of posting, it was the first time I actually used a calculator to compare the results, but I've always noticed a disparity.

Yup. 40% more is a big disparity.

At least 90% of the time the estimate is low. I just now ran CCleaner. Analyze estimate was 39.5 MB, removed 55.5 MB, Normal file deletion.