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What exactly did you type then? And was this after you shut down Windows and booted to DOS, or did you type it to a DOS prompt while Windows was still running?

Sorry, eraserl.exe is a Windows program, and you cannot run it from DOS. It means that Eraser failed to create a temporary directory called "~ERAFSWD.TMP", possibly because one already exists on your C: drive. This also means that the program failed to erase the free disk space. In order to...

Assuming that your "eraserd.exe" is at "C:\Program Files\Eraser\", and your swap file is at "C:\win386.swp", you can simply type: C:\Progra~1\Eraser\eraserd -file C:\win386.swp -passes 3

Yes, that was expected. I just wanted to rule out any compiler problems. Well, unless you want to try reinstalling the operating system, I am out of suggestions. Sorry. It seems that the registry key strings (in "Eraser.cpp" and "EraserDll.h") haven't been updated after 5.5.

Yes, that's what I meant. I realize that, but I still don't see a problem in the relevant part of the Eraser source code. One would have to run the program in a debugger on your system in order to see what is going on there. Anyway, assuming that nothing really strange is happening, my first...

Sorry, I only meant to imply that the problem might be with your installation instead of the program, because it does work for me.

Not disappearing icons, but a wrong icon. Older versions of Windows shell don't provide SHEmptyRecycleBin API, which would allow Eraser to notify the shell of the current Recycle Bin status. Instead, the icon was updated only when the Recycle Bin was opened the next time. No, it means Windows...

Works for me, and I believe I tested this on several platforms. Maybe you could provide a bit more information about yours?

Re: Eraser's Context Menu "Erase Recycle Bin" Has If you run the command eraserl.exe -recycled, it won't erase the desktop.ini file. You can verify this by looking at the source code file "Launcher.cpp". Are you sure you didn't mistakenly select "Erase" from the popup menu instead of "Erase...

As mentioned in the help file, eraserd.exe does not support partitions larger than two gigabytes. Use one of the Windows programs instead.

If you wish to use a command line interface on Windows, you should use eraserl.exe instead. For details, see the help file.

Re: Let the computer demagnetize first on shutdown Nope, that would soft of defeat the entire purpose of having a swap file in the first place. Parts of virtual memory are temporarily stored in the swap file, not the other way around. Not true; when you shut down the operating system, you shut...

Eraser won't make your computer any faster. And if all you want to do is remove unneeded files, you can simply delete them, there is no need to use Eraser. Or better yet, you could try an application designed to delete the unwanted junk from your system. I am sure someone here is able to...

It would be better to instead wipe the unused disk space before and after defragging. This way there will be no file fragments remaining in the unused space, and all unused space gets overwritten with the selected pattern even if the defragmenter needs to move files around. However, if the file...

Re: need more info The reason was probably given in the error message you were shown after erasing was completed.

There were some files missing from v5.6 source code distribution the last time I checked, Garrett promised to fix this though.

Are you sure the data you saw is what you supposedly erased, or is it new data written to the new win386.swp when you re-enabled virtual memory? Again, Windows created a new win386.swp when you started it, after you erased the old file. You need to examine the file after erasing it, before you...

Windows recreates this file every time you start it, unless you have disabled paging. Anyway, to keep it simple, why don't you simply try erasing another file, preferably one containing known data, and see if you can recover it. If you insist on using eraserd.exe, you can use the -nodel...

quote:Originally posted by zpro what about slack space? can eraser get that too? what about scamble file names?Yes, Eraser clears slack space (i.e. cluster tip area) and filenames. I believe this is mentioned in the help file.

quote:Originally posted by herbalist Are FAT32 file systems automatically compressed?No, this only applies if you use third-party compression software. Most people dont.