What doesn't get cleaned?

Currently there is an investigation into our previous sheriff.

He took home a laptop that he had been using on the job and questions arose regarding emails fro the time that he was in office.

News accounts in the local paper allege that he used CCleaner before he submitted the laptop for inspection.

Below is a quote from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

"At that time, Balkwill told Hoffman that he also had the laptop and would give it back after he saved photographs from his time at the FBI Academy, Knight says.

On Feb. 4, the same day the laptop was returned to the Sheriff's Office, someone deleted 11,000 files from it using a common Internet program called "C Cleaner.""

The question in my mind is what has CCleaner left behind that indicates that "11,000 files" had been erased?

Is it simply that someone did not select all the options that CCleaner has available or is there a hidden log file that remained?

The investigation is going to check the email servers. But what is left on the laptop to indicate some past history?

Interesting story

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090...ises-questions-

There is no hidden ccleaner log as far as I know.

I looked around for some trace of removed files and couldn't find one.

That is what prompted my post.

The claim of all these missing files has been printed in several articles that were before the one I quoted.

As Alice said "curiouser and curiouser"

Maybe they just knew how many files the laptop had before and after.