Another Wipe Free Space Topic

I was running CC cleaner after fixing a machine for a friend that got a bad virus infection and after reading online, And seeing people raving about the wipe free space feature "making space" (How I should of read upon what it did first, I now know it doesn't create space), so i figured i'd try it.. needless to say I got about 2%-5% in and had to cancel it (nasty lightning storm from nowhere) and saw on alot of forums where it created a nasty temp file of large proportions.

The machine is windows 7, 64 bit, CCcleaner is version 2.31.1153 - Does this file automatically delete upon canceling? or do I have a 100 MB file or so to chase down and delete?

Does it have an extension? What directory does it save in? I can't find anything matching that size, but thought I'd ask to make sure.

Thanks

~Hawk

I was running CC cleaner after fixing a machine for a friend that got a bad virus infection and after reading online, And seeing people raving about the wipe free space feature "making space" (How I should of read upon what it did first, I now know it doesn't create space), so i figured i'd try it.. needless to say I got about 2%-5% in and had to cancel it (nasty lightning storm from nowhere) and saw on alot of forums where it created a nasty temp file of large proportions.

The machine is windows 7, 64 bit, CCcleaner is version 2.31.1153 - Does this file automatically delete upon canceling? or do I have a 100 MB file or so to chase down and delete?

Does it have an extension? What directory does it save in? I can't find anything matching that size, but thought I'd ask to make sure.

Which ever forum was raving on about WFS creating space are fools. I wont go into it since i see you have read up on it. Older versions from ccleaner did leave the temp file(s), or if the program was interrupted it could cause a large temp file as you said left behind. I do believe ccleaner now has been recoded to handle cancellations & unexpected closures. Roughly off the top of my head it was be a long very random char folder in the c: directory.

If you are worried about where space is going download windirstat http://windirstat.info/ it will analyze where all the space on your hard drive(s) is going.

Great tool.