In the options you can exclude entire drives (like SSDs) from being defragmented. It would be nice to have an option to hide excluded drives (or just a generic way to hide drives) in the list of drives on the main screen. This allows list of drives to be smaller without scrollbars when trying to maximize the space dedicated to the fragmentation status blocks.
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I agree. Have long wanted this.
I tire of seeing 8, 12, or even 15 empty "smart card reader" drives showing in Defraggler when it isn't even in use!!!
+1000
To be applied to all Piriform product WIPE capabilities.
I carefully selected a Flash drive for wiping and I wiped it.
CCleaner instead destroyed the contents of a HDD partition - possibly mechanical vibration joggling the scroll bar as I launched the wipe.
If only it was possible to utterly exclude any possibility of action upon any drive that should be protected from such disasters.
+1 as well, my virtual floppy drive shows in it
Alan what have we told you about wiping Flash memory
Alan what have we told you about wiping Flash memory
I did it under instruction from Macrium Reflect.
They advised that it was the right thing to do to my Flash Drive before their software could convert the Flash into a Boot-able Recovery device.
Alan, I just use Microsoft's Windows 7 bootable USB Creator, or perhaps Windows Bootable Image Creator.
Alas, sorry to hear of your misfortune!!!
+1 as well, my virtual floppy drive shows in it
What on Earth could u possibly use a virtual floppy for?
In Windows Device Manager, u cannot uninstall Floppy, else Windows will re-install it, but u sure can disable the Floppy Disk Controller with no problems!
I carefully selected a Flash drive for wiping and I wiped it.
CCleaner instead destroyed the contents of a HDD partition - possibly mechanical vibration joggling the scroll bar as I launched the wipe.
If only it was possible to utterly exclude any possibility of action upon any drive that should be protected from such disasters.
I agree that hiding drives would be cool for the sake of hiding worthless drive listings that may be up to 26 drives long. Phew!!!
But how will this help in your specific case?
If you hide drive E:, then a mechanical vibration jars loose drive D: while you are connecting drive E:, won't Windows re-assign E: to D: & still end up overwriting ur data?
P.S. Doesn't happen often, but I believe it's also possible to get System Restore operations mixed up on different drives in similar manner, causing data loss (or gainage!)
What on Earth could u possibly use a virtual floppy for?
In Windows Device Manager, u cannot uninstall Floppy, else Windows will re-install it, but u sure can disable the Floppy Disk Controller with no problems!
no-no no virtual floppy, to run floppies copied to file-based .img files
superfast you've been told before to edit posts instead of double/triple posting , please do so (k'thx'by)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92I1eJgCHIM
note: this is not an invite to a YouTube fight. Privilege of rank allows me to state this stops here (in this thread )
no-no no virtual floppy, to run floppies copied to file-based .img files
superfast you've been told before to edit posts instead of double/triple posting , please do so (k'thx'by)
Yes. I know what a virtual floppy is. I just didn't know if you used a real floppy as you stated they show up in Defraggler. I have not had experience with virtual floppies (yet) as I have not needed to use such yet. Mostly, I edit anything floppy based & make it usable for USB or CD/DVD.
Floppy media corrupts far too often, & even though virtual floppies may not, it is too far a pain in the neck for me to use. I was just asking, because I had no idea what you could use that for. There are several kinds of image formats you could be using to write the virtual floppy to, so not sure which you are using.
As for the double/triple posts, I am not quite sure how you do the double/triple quotes yet.
Last time I tried it, it would only show the 1st quote, and it's hard to reply to multiple people in one quote box thingie.
Maybe I did it wrong.
ontopic:
it's my virtual floppy that shows up
off-topic:
multi quote button, then Reply to x quoted post(s) button
or what I do is quote>cut>quote>paste>cut>quote>paste
or manually type quote tags and copy paste for each quotable
problem is when you 3ple post any one with instant notification get hit with 3 emails (4ruple 4 email etc)
But how will this help in your specific case?
If you hide drive E:, then a mechanical vibration jars loose drive D: while you are connecting drive E:, won't Windows re-assign E: to D: & still end up overwriting ur data?
I suspect that mechanical vibration of the MOUSE may have affected the position of the drive selection in GUI scroll-bar,
not a disconnection of the electrical connections to any drive.
The vibration might have come from the cat bouncing a ping-pong ball against a door, or my chair creaking as I launched the wipe.
All I know is that I selected the intended target and because there was no "confirm /are you sure/etc" intermediate stage,
the last selected target was acted upon when I launched and obviously CCleaner saw a new target at the instant of launch.
Long story short, u just want a confirm (drive letter here) before wipe?
Long story short, u just want a confirm (drive letter here) before wipe?
Yes
A very definite YES.
I agree that this would be handy.
Though I oppose weighting down CCleaner with needless options, I can see where this can avoid tumultuous disaster in situational cases.
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