Kevin Bordeleau

nukecad, I followed your instructions and have completely deleted and erased all the picture files left behind on my PC. I used the option of 1 single overwrite pass on the Drive Wiper. I will remember now to tick BOTH places on those pages on my CCleaner. Thanks for taking the time to explain and post photos for me to understand better. And thanks to all those who replied. CASE CLOSED!

I am using the Drive Wiper option. I did not have the box checked in the ADVANCED menu. I only had it checked in this place. see pic. Thank you for the instruction. Will be cleaning it again. Thanks again!

Yes I have done that also. Still no luck. My PC is 2TB and 11 years old. I wiped free space again tonight and the files are still not erased. At least 100 that I want erased permanently. Thanks for the replies.

recovering viewable JPEG's

I reposted in other correct category CCleaner

I have deleted and used secure file deletion and very complex overwrite with CCleaner Professional several times and also erased free space, for erasing JPEG files, and after downloading RECUVA, I can still recover these erased JPEGs. Why are these erased files still obtainable on my PC? I can't seem to erase them permanently. Wipe Alternate Data Streams & wipe cluster tips was not checked in my erase options. Is this the problem? Thank you. I posted this in the wrong category before. Sorry for that.

I have deleted and used secure file deletion and very complex overwrite with CCleaner Professional several times and also erased free space, for erasing JPEG files, and after downloading RECUVA, I can still recover these erased JPEGs. Why are these erased files still obtainable on my PC? I can't seem to erase them permanently. Wipe Alternate Data Streams & wipe cluster tips was not checked in my erase options. Is this the problem? Thank you.

That's the CC page I couldn't find. Thanks for the link. Appreciate all the help.

Thanks for your quick reply. I'm still a bit confused about them. Perhaps I'll skip and leave those items unchecked just in case I shouldn't include them in a CC deletion. Thanks for the links.

In the Basic Settings window. Under Secure Deletion, what are Alternate Data Streams? and also Cluster Tips? Thank you.