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#1 OFFLINE   hazelnut

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Posted 19 August 2006 - 05:50 AM

I wonder how many people know about this, and if anyone has used it

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...672&sd=tech
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#2 OFFLINE   rridgely

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Posted 19 August 2006 - 05:55 AM

Cool find, I didn't know about it.. I guess I'm not the only one who didn't. :P
I would never encrypt my data with it but I might try it to perm delete some files one day. But then again I don't even use the one built into ccleaner. :D

#3 OFFLINE   Andavari

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Posted 19 August 2006 - 01:20 PM

My comments exactly mirror yours rridgely. I may have to try it out at least once because I noticed Avira Unerase found a horde of .wav audio files on my D:\ drive that I thought were long gone from weeks ago and was still able to recover a handful of them even though I had defragged that volume and added at least 10 GB of data to it.
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Posted 19 August 2006 - 01:36 PM

Yep exists on my system.

I thought I had just about gone through most XP files in my slimming quest but I've never heard of that file till now.

Thanks Hazelnut :)

Will have to check it out but I use search and recover to find deleted then right click and terminate all which supposedly makes them irrecoverable.

I don't do this for any security reasons,I suppose it's just a silly habit. :rolleyes:

#5 OFFLINE   Andavari

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Posted 19 August 2006 - 02:37 PM

Well using it with the /W option doesn't do anything on my system because it finishes in milliseconds. I've never once used the encryption feature so I don't know if it's looking for leftovers from encrypted files or not.
Complexity of incoherent design.