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FW TX 2355 CST Tuesday 060207 Some of my super-slueth buddies say 'they' have sophisticated programs that can re-assemble over-written files, which might be true sometimes with some hard drives. But what they don't say is the percentage of files that are recoverable. There seems to be considerable lee-way of how well shredder software works at any given usage, which would certainly affect ability to recover. Like door locks on your house, it merely discourages the curious. I tested five shredder software packages, most of which yeilded about 99.8 % obliteration. And, most of these programs worked OK, except for one. With most of them one must manually input as 'zaphirer' noted. FYI: Shredder 2.1 is availalbe at PC Magazine Downloads. $5.97 per pop. and low sys overhead. Very few files made if... and a good deal for the $$. Anyway, I'm happy with CCleaner as it is; with shredding benefits, it will be great ! Later Folks, ---cqcq

FW TX 1640 CST 060206 agumon: I ran an experiment to check ability to destroy files discarded by CCleaner.... a) Examined number of file names in white space (after many over-writes), Before final 'cleaning' w/ CC I saved abt. a dozen notable file names and verified number of files to be deleted, c) Purged sys w/ CC, d) Re-checked amount of files in white space, which equalled approx the previous amt. plus approx number of last deleted files, e) Ran Shred 2.1 thru white space 3 passes, f) Rechecked number of and readable file names.... Viola! Gone! (except for three. Puzzling.) All this goes to say that you're correct: It would be really worthwhile to shred files, w/ their names, before deleted files are written to white space.... Lookin' forward to that new release! Moreover, completely agree w/ your comment that stable software is better than an unreliable but 'improved' version. Best Regards, ---cqcq

Thanks for your comments aGumon. So... To be really certain that those deleted files are "gone" would be to shred the "white-space? Also, when will v. 1.27.242 be released from BETA? ---cq

Are files, such as those in Trash, History and Cookies, which are deleted by CCleaner recoverable? Are these files shredded? Thank You, cq