New to Eraser and Vista. Program doesnt have permission

[Burgess]

I have never used eraser or vista before. I am trying to erase all unused disk space but when I execute that task I get a complete with errors message. The log says: The program does not have the required permissions to erase the unused space on disk. Run the program as an administrator and retry the operation. I am an administrator. I tried closing eraser and relaunching and had the same results....any ideas?

This is Vista Home Basic BTW.

 

[DavidHB]

You may be an administrator, but you won't be running the program as one unless you run it 'elevated'. First close any running instances of Eraser; if there is an Eraser icon in the system tray (the right of the taskbar), right-click on it, then select 'exit'. Then right-click on the eraser icon on the desktop, or in the start menu, and select 'run as Administrator'. That should fix the problem.

Hope this helps,

David

 

[rqallen]

I didn't see where DavidHB's reply solved the issue for Burgess, but it helped me. I have a new PC running Win7-64 and the "stable" version (Eraser 6.0.6.1376) wouldn't run at all. The latest 6.0 nightly build (Eraser 6.0.6.1851) solves the problem, but, like Burgess, I ran into the "don't have permission" error. DavidHB's suggestion did the trick. Thanks!

 

[DavidHB]

I didn't see where DavidHB's reply solved the issue for Burgess, but it helped me.

I think that the two problems were essentially the same. Incidentally, whether or not you experience the problem may depend on the level at which you have UAC set. After experimenting, I have turned it off. So I make sure that my machine sits behind a good hardware firewall, and has effective security software running.

David