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ericmo

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  1. Ok, thanks for answering, it did clear some things for me. But I still think it's not working properly, as Recuva finds all the bits of files that were there before I've runned CCleaner's wiper, even though none of them are recoverable. Anyway, I think I'll stop wiping my hd because I'm not that paranoid, so I guess this topic should be shut down.
  2. I've just figured out why the behavior of the software changed, and that is because I was running CCleaner from a non-admin account until a couple of days ago, and now I did run from a admin account. I've changed to a non-admin account a couple of minutes ago and it didn't even enter the wipe routine (I did check the box). But the fact that I can't securely remove files in Recuva, and the free spaced to be wiped doesn't get smaller in CCleaner is still weird.
  3. BTW, I think Recuva is also kind of weird. I tried to securely remove some files, but when I've searched my hd for recoverable files, those files came up again!
  4. Thanks for answering. I knew that wipe free space removes deleted files for good (while recuva allows to recover deleted files because they're not deleted for good!), but hadn't really thought about what would be written over. But, anyway, not sure if that helps. What I meant is that I do run CCleaner on a daily basis, including the wipe free space routine, and it never said there was such an huge amount of free space to be wiped. Two days ago, I've runned CCleaner and there was no unusual thing. But now, suddenly, there're 40GB of free space to be wiped, even though I couldn't have deleted such huge amount of data in this period. Can't say that this isn't weird! Updating the situation: I did run CCleaner with the wipe free space routine on all the way, and guess what, apparently nothing happened (if I try to run CCleaner again, it will still want to wipe the same amount of data). Also, I did try to use Recuva to "remove securely some big files", and then when I tried to wipe free space on CCleaner there were more free space to be wiped, which is the opposite of what should happen, as that space would have been wiped by Recuva..
  5. I've downloaded Recuva, and apparently I was mistaken, I do have some big loads of junk in my PC (not sure if sums up to 40GB, anyway, probably it doesn't). But still, I don't know why that didn't show up before if I do run CCleaner on a daily basis.
  6. And, oh, just noticed the typo on topic's title, sorry about that.
  7. Ok, so I was running CCleaner and when it got to the wipe free space part, it said it would remove about 41000MB. But the thing is, I have used only 40.5GB of my 200GB hard-drive, so what the hell is CCleaner going to wipe? I'm used to run CCleaner every day, so there shouldn't be 40GB of trash floating around on my hd. Anyway, I stopped it and came here to ask about it. I'm running the lastest version of CCleaner (I've just updated it) on Windows XP. So, any words on it?
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