Possible solution?
I believe that I solved the issue. Just degragmented the hdd that was badly fragmented.
Add a chkdsk /f before degragmenting just in case.
3 years later . . .
I am using Eraser 5.7 and one of my PCs recently started to show this behavior too. I have never seen it before and I have been using Eraser for over 2 years.
This particular machine is running Win XP SP2.
It does not happen with every file in the Recycling Bin and...
I decided to move back to version 5.7. Additionally to what I previously commented, the 'Erase unused space' function in version 5.8 damaged some of the files that should have preserved in a USB stick.
MS Office 2003
Apologies for nagging again.
It seems that un-installing version 5.8 breaks MS Office 2003 installation. It happened with two different machines.
After uninstalling the original 5.8 release to clean install this latest beta (mentioned by Robbie April 8th) some office...
I guess you could but I have been looking at the registry without being able to find where. I tried the places where you normally have shell and shellex entries for the context menu as well as the entries for eraser without success. There are other things I could try but did not have enough time...
Same here with 3 diferrent XP machines. Happened after upgrading from v 5.7 to 5.8 in 2 of them and also happened with a clean install.
I have been looking at the Windows registry but was was not able to find anything so far.
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