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[jake]

I'm curious also which do you guys use when using CCleaner.
Do you use the regular deletion or do you guys use secure deletion?
I'm using secure now, but wondering if I should just switch to regular since the secure 3Xpass takes a little longer than I'd like.
If using regular, I'm assuming files still sit on your computer and are recoverable?
In essense they take up space still? Whereas if you did a secure deletion no space is taken up?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions, explanations guys........................................................

[Robbie]

jake, on Oct 5 2006, 09:04 AM, said:

I'm curious also which do you guys use when using CCleaner.
Do you use the regular deletion or do you guys use secure deletion?
I'm using secure now, but wondering if I should just switch to regular since the secure 3Xpass takes a little longer than I'd like.
If using regular, I'm assuming files still sit on your computer and are recoverable?
In essense they take up space still? Whereas if you did a secure deletion no space is taken up?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions, explanations guys........................................................

I use secure, 7 pass, but then i'm just security conscious!

whether you use ordinary delete or secure delete the deleted files still occupy the same space on the hard drive, the difference being that the one deleted with no secure wipe may still be recoverable. This is simply because the file is marked as deleted by Windows but resides on the hard drive until it is overwritten. Effectively, Windows just sees it as part of free space. With secure deletion the file is overwritten 3 or 7 times, meaning that the file is a jumble of characters. The file itself is still there, but is garbage and unlikely to be recoverable.

[TheFiresInTheSky]

i prefer 1X because it doesnt take as long.
even if you do 7 passes, some have said that they could still recover the data.
its not until that its over-written with real data a few times that it cant be recovered.
both take up the same amount of space as before you deleted the files but now those files can be over-written.

[Eldmannen]

I use regular file deletion, not the secure deletion mode.

You only need to use the secure deletion mode if you're paranoid.

Yes with regular file deletion, files may still be recoverable.

[Oliver]

regular deletion here, because:

a. it is faster

b. the secure-deletion provided by CCleaner is quite useless


Oliver