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Re: Process question - erase unused space option - full disk Process for others in case they want to test themselves. download hirens onto a CD Pull eraser 5.7 onto a thumb drive (zipped package is fine) boot to CD (choose mini xp option) connect the thumb drive drive B is the ram drive (open...

Re: Process question - erase unused space option - full disk Testing update. I ran eraser on 2 seperate xp pro machines. 1) Machine 1 - as a basic clean up 2) Machine 2 - I put in a large number of files and deleted them. 3) I made a system restore point and verified 5 other points available...

Re: Process question - erase unused space option - full disk Yes I have tested it over the years. At least in win XP what happens when using erase unused space on a drive containing the OS, XP as an emergency measure.. tries to help you from a crash by dumping whatever it decides it can. When...

The file that is hidden and tracks all past history of windows including deleted cookies and all that stuff is the index.dat "Index.dat are files hidden on your computer that contain all of the Web sites that you have ever visited. Every URL, and every Web page is listed there. Not only that...

I think if you wanted to clear the hiberfil.sys then you can turn it off under advanced power functions. Turning off hibernation unlocked the disk space allocated to hiberfil.sys. I understand that It would be nice to have a button.option that would if set, remove the option, run and reset it...

I have enjoyed using eraser and other security tools for a while. I do both secure data removal as well as disaster recovery. Now I have also run into with various unerase unused space processing, it taking up 100% of the disk space and forcing the system to self destruct the restore points as...