Wipe Free Space Option Not Available on Win 98?

Hi all,

Not sure what I did, but I installed the latest version of CCleaner on an old Dell with Windows 98. Everything works fine except there is no option (box to check) to perform a "wipe free space". Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Well, since Win9x have a completely different kernel than Win2k/XP/Vista/7, it might be using something that isn't available on Win9x..

But why would you want to do that anyway ?

I'm getting rid of the computer and wanted to remove any remnant data that might be on the drive, so I thought the wipe disc option might do that. I don't need anything as extreme as boot n nuke, but just wanted to wipe the free space.

Wipe Free Space currently requires windows 5.0 (Windows 2000 I believe per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Releases) and up

[Wipe Free Space]

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LangSecRef=3004

LangRef=3132

WarningRef=3207

Default=False

DetectOS=5.0

SpecialKey1=N_EX_WIPE_MFT_FREE_SPACE

SpecialKey2=N_EX_WIPEFREESPACE

Okay, thank you very much for the information Nergal and Aethec!

You can wipe free space on Win98 with File Shredder.