How to Stop "Wipe Free Space"!?

Win 7, Avira Antivir Premium.

I ticked "Wipe Free Space" on my C: HD in Settings, for No good reason (just curious. :wacko: )-

Now it is going on-and-on, and playing Havoc with my computer!-

Cable Router has to be Reset every few minutes, and System Volume information is up to 1200mb! :o

Is there some way to Stop it? :wacko:

My Vista Sys Vol Info is at a lowly 4.17GB currently and peaks out at ca 20.6GB so your 1.17GB on Win 7 is negligible.

Can't you just end-task CC?

Wipe Free Space first creates a huge amount of data (files of nothing but 0s) and then deletes it. It takes a very long time and if you end task you will need to run WFS again to delete the file created.

Do this then NEVER run WFS again, until you sell the harddrive

If scottls doesn't want to endure another time consuming wfs can't he just delete the wfs files?

I've been trying out Wipe Free Space this afternoon on two internal drives, one of them partitioned, and the three partitions of my external USB hard drive.

Six drives all ran individually.

I had a windows explorer window open on each drive as I tried this, and in each case one weirdly numbered file appeared (0bytes), and that immediately disappeared when I selected "Cancel". And the original size of "Free Space" was the same as before I started the process. The "file" was automatically deleted.

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That's exactly as it should happen with WFS, so there shouldn't be any need to find a file to delete, or to run it again.

Just for information guys, as I was curious myself as to what exactly happened if WFS was cancelled.

EDIT: Windowes XP SP3 by the way, and WFS ran on its own.

I tried out WFS after this current version of CCleaner was released and my findings were identical to DennisD.

SOLUTION!-

I Finally found a way to let WFS complete, and stop killing my Internet Receive Connection on my Router... (Constant resets!)!

I sleuthed that my freeware PCtools Plus Firewall was going Nuts, and creating Huge logs!

I uninstalled my firewall, and went back to Win firewall- Router would still lose connection, but not as soon? :blink:

I then rebooted & did a check disk with normal repair. No activity for 10min.

During this time my WD Raptor HD was softly chattering constantly (C: partition is 60gig), but No connection loss since then!

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I don't have Any Idea Exactly what the problem was?-

Rebooting to soon, after CCleaner WFS?- Should be a progress bar, or...!? 3d party WFS applications have this feature!

PCtools Plus firewall was reinstalled (Normal Mode this time), and running Good!

I'll NEVER do WFS again, unless I'm selling my computer! :rolleyes:

I've been trying out Wipe Free Space this afternoon on two internal drives, one of them partitioned, and the three partitions of my external USB hard drive.

Six drives all ran individually.

Just for information guys, as I was curious myself as to what exactly happened if WFS was cancelled.

Your a braver man than I am, Gunga Din

Alan

Your a braver man than I am, Gunga Din

Alan

Thank you Alan.

And I lived to tell the tale. :lol: