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Subject: Wipe free space.
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freewily 23.08.10 - 07:26pm
Hi what does the option wipe free space actually do on cc.cleaner is it safe to tick the box upon running the cleaner iv used ccleaner for years and its a top bit of kit but only just noticed the wipe free space . Do many of you use ccleaner.? * +
the.rain 23.08.10 - 07:47pm
it just over writes the unused space on your drive several times to ensure any sensitive documents you have deleted can not be recovered * +
marson 23.08.10 - 08:43pm
Caution : be sure you know how to use it . It is way to easy to wipe your boot sector with ccleaner . And is that why you have problems with your laptop ? * +
freewily 23.08.10 - 08:51pm
I dont appear to have problems on my desktop but on my laptop when im watchen music vids with volume on full it crashes sum times nd makes a stuttering noise then a bluescreen comes up sumet like physical memory dump then it counts dwn but no probs on desktop ? * +
freewily 23.08.10 - 08:52pm
I watch the music vids via utube * +
av2980 24.08.10 - 02:08am
You can wipe your boot sector with ccleaner or any other app while the disk is online. Only when you start up from a cold boot with a boot disk then you can erase a disk. Wipe free space overwrites the free space with zeros a number of times to ensure deleted stuff can't be unerased. Its for privacy basically. Its safe as a chkdsk due to fact you can't mess up your os because important stuff are locked * +
av2980 24.08.10 - 02:09am
Meant you can't wipe your bootsector with ccleaner. * +
av2980 24.08.10 - 02:10am
For stuttering do a chkdsk first then a defrag. *
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