Recent content by John Barnett MVP

Hi Joel, I manually set the 'run as administrator' myself via the Eraser Properties. For some strange reason Eraser will not erase free space unless it is allowed to 'run as administrator.' After I posted to the forum yesterday I disabled the 'run as administrator' option from the Eraser...

Just as an addition to my previous post: Earser is set to 'run as administrator.' If I disable 'run as administrator' in eraser properties it is possible to erase a file without seeing any error message; however, as soon as 'run as administrator' is enabled again, upon trying to erase a file...

Error message screenshot attached.

Just to obtain the error message I have re-installed Eraser. The message image is reproduced below: Eraser Shell Extension An Error has Occurred (below this is a series of chinese characters) - which I assume refer to Null.

I did exit the previous running session of Eraser prior to running the application in administrator mode. Unfortunately, although I managed to get the 'erase free disk space' to work I am unable to get eraser to erase any files I subsequently request to be erased. If I right click on a file and...

Looks like this problem is intermittent. After closing down the PC for a few hours and then rebooting the 'erase free space' seems to have decided to work. The 'run as administrator' option is still enabled via the Eraser properties and the only other change is that I made the request to erase...

Hi, I can confirm the error reported by mviverette. Also, after a couple of attempts at erasing free disk space, a task error icon appears in the notification area. Looking at the Eraser log file the entry is as follows: Session: 19 December 2009 1:17:39 PM 19 December 2009 1:17:39 PM Error The...