Recent content by blokeyguy

Ok I have restarted and everything's back to normal - all the fonts are back, and the other problems are gone. Thanks for your patient help Joel! It was a bit scary but I'm glad this forum exists that's for sure!

Ok, thanks Joel. Following your advice I went to my C drive and right there was a folder named "CkM'[6_eLNPZlkSUjo" so I opened it and inside were 8 files of 221,184kb, one of 146,876kb, one of 2kb and one of 1kb. I deleted it and emptied recycling bin. Now I got my lost space back. Is it safe...

Hmmm. Thanks again but I cannot find the files generated by the task because I removed the task when I shut down eraser, earlier on. :( Any way for me to poke around and find this file? Which directory would it be in? Many thanks!

I guess a simple question is : have I corrupted my drive through my silliness or will it all be fine if I simply restart?

Hey thanks Joel! I'm using Vista and I didn't let it finish filling the free space before stopping the task, I was also using open office at the time, and when it crashed and kept saying "allocate more space" I was like "where has it gone". I understand that Eraser fills free space to do its...

I used eraser (latest release I think) and set it to munch through my free space and then suddenly my computer was telling me there was 0 bytes of free space at all, programs crashed, google search (!) stopped working and fonts (goudy old type, italic) stopped working in open office. Please...