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Thanks and appreciate.

I have an old laptop computer and wish to dispose it but wish to permanently erase the information on its hard drive before dispose. I wish to remove the hard drive and connect it as a slave drive to a new computer then completely wipe the information on it (on the old laptop computer’s hard drive). Does CCleaner work for this purpose in the same way CCleaner works for erasing a thumb drive connected to a computer? I am requesting this information just to educate myself.

Thank you. Before providing additional info, I am not clear where to find ccleaner.ini that you mentioned. Could you help me identify its location? I received a legal notice. Once I received that notice, I am supposed to keep the information/evidence as it is (and at the same time I am permitted to use my computer for “routine operation”). In addition, I “should not allow the routine operation to thwart investigation obligations by allowing that operation (CCleaner operation) to destroy information that I am required to preserve or produce.” I wish to argue as follows: although all the boxes in “registry cleaner” option of CC are checked, I deleted/erased only specific files and that deletion operation was necessary to do my routine work. However, if the investigation reveals that I cleaned slack space, entire free space, etc. also , I wish to defend that those operations might have been performed but NOT after I received the legal notice date. Thereofre, it is very important for me on the possibility to identify the date on which specific operations (cleaning slack space, for example) were performed on my computer.

Thanks for the information. In case it is possible to identify the last date of use then Another question is: is it possible to identify what actions/operations CC has done during the last cleaning? For example: whetehr it wiped a specific file (or folder) OR wiped the free space OR free space PLUS slack space OR wiped the browser history alone OR something else...

Thank you. Therefore, unless there is custom log that monitors the running of ccleaner's exe was already setup on my computer, it is NOT possible to know when ccleaner was run. Is it correct? I am bit novice to this field and I am Sorry, if my question is redundant.

How to know when (that is, the date(s) or the last date) ccleaner was run on my Windows 7 computer? Is it possible to identify this information using forensic exams as well? The Windows log files are not available.