sharp Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Hi, to wipe a drive can take hours, if you reboot Windows and forgot that the drive wiping process is still running in the background, windows should ask like in unsaved textdocuments, if you really want to reboot. At the moment windows reboots without asking. This is my suggestion/feedback for ccleaner. thx sharp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted February 15, 2015 Moderators Share Posted February 15, 2015 Good suggestion! And I'd imagine a reboot during a Drive Wipe and/or Wipe Free Space could bite someone on the backside in a bad way one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juice370 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Absolutely Ridiculous. 3TB drive 70% wiped, approx 3-4 hours left to completion and W7 did an auto update and rebooted. Why didn't the software prevent the reboot and wait until Drive Wiper had completed? I should be shipping the drive today and now I can't. What was the update? Office, not exactly a life-changing update. Now I'm using Eraser software instead, fingers crossed this software has a little more discipline. Just Ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted March 12, 2015 Moderators Share Posted March 12, 2015 In my experience, if Windows Update wants to do a reboot, and you fail to respond to the "will reboot in 10 minutes - postpone or reboot now" prompt then it will do a force shutdown, regardless of what is running. I think we have all been burnt by this undesirable feature at some point. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted March 12, 2015 Moderators Share Posted March 12, 2015 Probably best to stop the Automatic Updates service if using Drive Wiper or Wipe Free Space. If I use Wipe Free Space I always stop the Automatic Updates service - although it would be nice if CCleaner could automatically do this for us and possibly also stop other interfering services or programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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