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  1. Everything comes from China.
  2. Yes, I believe that Recuva does use the MFT in normal scan mode. You could try a deep scan, and then go to the pictures or visit your mum while it runs. Take care of the results, you don't want to run it twice.
  3. JD, How did you delete these files? If they went to the recycler then were deleted then Windows will have renamed them to something like dc1.xxx, where xxx is the file type, so look for those. You could sort Recuva's output by size, or date or extension to help you find them. Do as little as possible on your pc before you find them, and if you do recover them to a flash drive.
  4. I assume you sorted the Recuva results by filename and then searched? Even easier is to trim the search results by typing the filename in the file/path box. I'm not sure what the Recuva Option of Show files found in hidden system directories means, but make sure that's ticked.
  5. The only 'Word' option I have under CC/Applications is Office XP, which is ticked, and I've never had an Word file removed. CC never goes anywhere near My Docs, so I'm wondering whether you have anything set in the Include section?
  6. Augeas

    Just wondering

    Whilst ever-vigilantly patrolling my pc I noticed that when I ran Recuva and listed the securely deleted files a few of them (OK, one or two) showed a quite intact jpg file - and the usual excuse, that the deleted file had been overwritten, was not true. So I tried to create a theory to fit the facts. I wonder if a file was securely deleted by CC, and renamed to something like ZZZZ.ZZ, and showed zeroes using Recuva. Then the space it previously occupied was taken by a new file, the jpg. So looking at the ZZ file you would see the jpg, but also see that the file had been overwritten by the new live file. Then the new live file is shift/deleted without secure overwrite. The ZZ file still shows the jpg, but doesn't say that it's overwritten, as it isn't any more. Both ZZ/jpgs on my pc were small, around 5 or 6 k, so there would be more chance to align the jpg on the old ZZ file sector. It depends on whether Recuva only indicates that a deleted file is overwritten if the overwriting file is still live. Have I spent too long in the sun?
  7. Augeas

    What is

    Hear hear! Anything over one pass is ill-informed.
  8. Do you mean that the file names are still found by Recuva? These names are held as entries in the MFT and are flagged as deleted. You cannot remove them using Recuva. The entries in the MFT will eventually be reused when new files are created, so the file names will go then, but there will always be some deleted file names remaining in the MFT.
  9. I'm not sure what you mean, no file is 'used' to overwrite another, it's just that new files are placed in the sectors previously occupied by a deleted file. Perhaps your rar folders are in some secure area which is somehow fenced off from other file allocation, I don't know how that works. But if this area sits on top of previously deleted files, maybe Recuva can still look at this area? If your files are secure what was causing your original concern, and has that been fixed?
  10. If the clock is malfunctioning (how many clocks malfunction?) then there's no way of knowing which is the latest restore point. If someone is using CC to remove restore points then they know how to move the slider or use the existing Windows restore point tidy-up already. So my vote is no. I had (still have) an IBM XT that had a clock malfunction after some six or seven years. Had to replace the battery. How many users know there's a battery in their pc?
  11. Are we supposed to see anything is the System Restore folder? Mine is displayed (I have show system and hidden files ticked) but shows empty. I'm on XP2 Home. Yes, sys restore is on and monitoring - apparently.
  12. According to my XP how to do it book, by default Sys Restore creates restore points until it has used 12% of disk space available, at which point it begins to remove old entries. However looking at my setup (r/click My Computer, Properties, Sys Restore) I only have 1% allocated which is just under 2 gb. I can't remember changing this but I may well have done at some point in the past. I've never used it (sys res) and I'm not too fussed about restore points. But then my setup is fairly static and I do take data backups - which sys restore doesn't 'restore' anyway. My book also says that sys restore deletes restore points after 90 days. That setting is in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Currentversion\Systemrestore\rplifeinterval (7,776,000 seconds, 90 days). Restorepoint interval is in .....\rpglobalinterval, at 86,400 seconds, 24 hrs. I've just checked my registry and these settings are correct. So I assume 90 days unless the disk space allocated is used.
  13. It tends to be if you're using secure deletion, but normal deletion is too quick to notice any extraneous noises.
  14. Do you have the Custom Files and Folders box ticked under Cleaner/Advanced?
  15. How did you delete these files? If they went to the recycler then were deleted then Windows will have renamed them to something like dc1.exe, so look for those. You could sort Recuva's output by size, or date or extension to help you find them. Do as little as poss on your pc before you find them, and if you do recover them to a flash drive.
  16. Yes, we do have a very large garden - I have been toying with the idea of getting a couple of helpful Polish lads around to help for a few pounds. Maybe when I get even more feeble. The US roofs were a little flatter than ours, but not a lot, and mostly two floors tall as well. The workers, who were probably Central American, just shinned up with a handful of tiles in one hand and a nail-gun in the other. I'm sure there would have to be a mass of scaffolding here to satisfy health and safety, and rightly too, as we insist in using these clay or concrete tiles. They did seem to be legit firms though. Sheep aren't too bad, goats are just too bolshie. You have to remember that what goes in one end comes out of the other, and to sheep and goats flowers are far more delectable than silly grass, and they have all day to think of ways to escape. P.S. Cops, walking? Ha ha ha! At least yours don't wear stab jackets.
  17. Customers? The lawns are all mine. Luckily growth has slowed a little. Now it's on to the hedges, lots there too and mostly holly, which fights back. It's all go here. I was watching roofers in Atlanta last month, working long days in conditions where it was too hot just to stand and watch, let alone work. And all off a couple of ladders, you'd never get away with it in the UK.
  18. Augeas

    Irfanview

    You get free drugs with Irfanview? Which bit do you have to fill in?
  19. Did you run analysis first, and if so how many gb are you cleaning? Do you have secure deletion switched on, and if so how many passes?
  20. It looks as if you've lost (OK, removed) some or all file associations. There are threads where this has been sorted, if you have a look. Can you right click on say a .doc file and get an Open With? If so select that and select Choose Program and (it might say choose from a list of pgms) select Word, and tick the Always use this pgm box. This might even work!
  21. Well, like most things, it depends. If you keep your most treasured files in some folder normally used to hold temp files (and you'd be surprised how many people do), then yes, you may lose some of them. If your files are in normal user folders then you should be perfectly safe. I would suggest that you keep all your stuff in your own user folders, or my docs, my pictures, etc, and every now and again dump them to a cdr. Then run CC. You should be fine. I wouldn't use the registry cleaner until you have more experience and confidence - I hardly ever run it.
  22. CC does have a registry backup facility. It rather defeats the object to backup anything else being cleaned.
  23. This is probably academic now, especially after the 'download about three other programs'. I'm a little confused. If you delete to the recycle bin and then empty the bin Windows will rename the files to something like dc1.nnn (I'm not too sure, but I think they begin with dc). So you could look for those with Recuva. I wouldn't use a deep scan yet, due to the time it takes. But you say that you have tried to recover some of the missing files. How did you find them if they have been renamed? Pwerhaps you were trying to recover older versions, or overwritten sectors. It looks like a lot of activity has gone on on your pc in the last 10 days, so recovery chances are slim. Always do as little as possible, including booting up, and try to recover to a flash drive. And ask an old bloke about the days of backups.
  24. I don't have a history folder where you say, but I do have several History folders elsewhere, all empty. Perhaps you have some different settings from me. I'mn on XPH/SP2.
  25. Hello. I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elucidate?
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