Flyv?pnet

You're quite welcome, fireryone! F.Y.I., I received a cordial message from DennisD calling my attention to the rules governing signature blocks; and a hyperlink leading to one's Web site is not permitted. But it's here all the same. =^..^=

Thanks for those explanations, ePost. I appreciate your going to the trouble of passing them along to me. I'd never have learned the true etymology of Flyv?pnet had not CCleaner got stuck in all that free space! By the way, it so happens I was in the air force - the U.S. Air Force - back in the day. I'm glad you passed along your finding, that the use of the word Flyv?pnet by Norwegian armed forces dates from the Second World War. My trusty backpack is, perhaps, as old as me! =^..^=

I don't doubt you're correct, ePost; but as it happens my username was taken from the backpack which you can see here, here and here. That particular word, which appears on the backpack, caused some confusion on a Bj?rk board full of Scandinavians and a scanlation board whose Webmaster is Swedish; so I suppose it's only fitting that the spelling dilemma carries over to this board. =^..^= P.S.: Aha! Thank you very much, ePost, for clearing that up! I shall pass along your welcome discovery to those other two boards I mentioned above. Mystery solved! Case closed (we hope)! Thanks again!

At the risk of falling afoul of The Powers That Be hereabouts, fireryone, let me direct you here whilst mentioning that 1,228 km/h is indeed fast! (I visited the U.K. last year and one of my hosts during that tour lives at Coventry, West Midlands.) =^..^=

Thanks, ePost, for your warnings about the perils of merely blundering into free space and flailing about - which is probably something I'd unwisely attempt were it not for admonitions from more knowledgeable people such as yourself. I think I'll shelve my curiosity about wiping free space for the time being. Your cautionary advice is well taken, marmite! I'll leave the command-line stuff to those who are more familiar than me with the secret lives of computing systems. =^..^=

I apologize, Alan_B, for not having done a better job of posing my question. That free-space figure I used is hypothetical ("Let's say....") as I was looking for an educated guess on how long it might take CCleaner to wipe free space. Let's forget the "500 Megabytes" and use whatever figure everybody's more comfortable with: if I've [insert acceptable figure here] of free space, how long should it take CCleaner to complete a one-pass wipe? It seems a reasonable question to me; and any estimates will be greatly appreciated. Marmite, are you an acquired taste? (Sorry, I couldn't help myself.) Anyway, thanks for the sdelete.exe link. Well, I clicked on "Open" and up came a command-line box along with a EULA box; and when I accepted the EULA both boxes vanished. Upon clicking "Open" again, the dreaded black box appeared for a split second and vanished once more. Maybe it's busy doing something behind the scenes? I'm not a big fan of command-line stuff 'cause it's user unfriendly - for users like me, anyway. I'll wait and see if it reappears, or something. =^..^=

I thought I'd just add my voice to the chorus and confirm I'm bamboozled by the fact "Wipe Free Space" never stops running, even after several hours. A different application, several years ago, was touted as doing nothing but wiping the free space; and it never stopped, either. Could it be this is a process which takes an inordinate amount of time? Let's say you've 500 Megabytes of free space. How many hours would it take for CCleaner to wipe it with the one-pass setting? Maybe I just need to get psyched up for a long-haul process. =^..^=