Recent content by JohnJr

Yes, I know there are programs that 'claim' to do a great job at deleting the files AND clearing filenames, but that don't really work. And I see exactly what you mean about being 'careful' as to deleting data. It's really pretty rare that a filename would need to be 'cleared' - really...

Windows 2000 Pro being a more 'secure' OS, as compared to Win95 or Win98, makes sense. But, what I don't understand is that Eraser is the ONLY program that I've tried (and I've tried several now) that has this 'problem' with not being able to access certain directory entries. And, as I already...

I've tried Eraser on several different computers now and I've noticed that I never have this problem with these 'errors' (failure to clean directory) on the machines that are running Windows 95 or Windows 98. This problem only shows up on computers running Windows 2000 Pro. Also, directories are...

I've noticed that if I look at the directory listings on my hard drive with a program like Clean Disk Security (which will show, supposedly, the names of files that have been deleted), after I've run Eraser on this drive to clean free space and remove directory entries, Clean Disk Security will...

I just ran Eraser to wipe my unused space and to clear directory entries (running a Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook with Windows 2000 Pro). When finished, it gave me a bunch of 'error' listings in the Erase Report similar to this: "Error: Failed to clean directory entry C:\, could not prevent...

I'm trying to use Eraser version 5.7 with Windows 2000 Pro. I deleted the contents of one of Internet Explorer's cache directories and then looked at that directory with another program (Clean Disk Security) to see if the file names were erased. They were NOT completely erased! Am I...