I was trying to get my computer cleaned up today, hoping it would load some web pages faster. So I
ran the wiper driver and it really doesn't seem to have done anything?
Sorry if this is a dumb question. My initial thought when I ran it, was that it was like defragging? are they different?
Thanks,
Tamlee
Very different from defrag
And neither it nor defrag will make webpages load faster (a regular clean will make non-cached pages load faster but regularly visted one may be perceived as loading "slower")
As far as drive wiper:
Freespace wipe willl fill the entire empty space of your harddrive with data (random letters in a textfile basically) and then delete that data. Effectively a user would not notice any difference in the computer after the procedure is finished, but, it makes recovery of any document, that was deleted prior to the WFS running, harder/uneconomical to perform.
Wipe entire drive makes it similarly difficult to recover from but is applied to the entire drive and cannot be run on a live Windows system (for the logical reason that one cannot erase one's own plane of existence while simultaneously existing there).
Nergal,
Thank you so much for your reply and for the information.
Have a great day!
Tamlee