HELLO FORUM,

I was wonderin if my good dodge buddys could help, I deleted a bunch of programs the other day and i recently ran a spryware/virus scan, while this program was scanning i noticed that it was scanning the deleted program file which tells me there is still a trace of this program even though i deleted it. not that the prorams a bad thing (doras explorer 4 the kids). it just got me to wonderin why is it still there,


has this happened to anyone? how do i eliminate this aftermath? or is there a FREE program to use?


thanx

 

When items are "deleted" from a hard drive, they are just having their properties changed to not be read again when viewing the drive contents. This data is still on the drive until it is overwritten by new data. That sad, maybe the scanner you were using is a deep-scanner and was shoveling up old dirt, so to speak. Which can't be a bad thing if there ever warm harmful date previously deleted that needed to be properly quarantined and deleted. Or maybe you were just seeing it scan remaining registry folders? I personally use CCleaner from downloads.com to clean up my registry and programs that start up with Windows. Hope this helps.

 

+1 use Ccleaner, its a great program that will delete/fix problems with your registry and clean up your hard drive. But yes as said before, when you "delete" data its really not deleted just properties changed so the data can be overwritten when you install or update something else.

 

Great Program...if you want to wipe your disk clean.."ALL DATA WILL BE LOST"


http://dban.sourceforge.net/

 

when you delete a file or a program (multiple files) the computer only deletes info in the FAT (file allocation table). The FAT holds the file name, file attributes andwhat clusters are used for the file.this is the only data that is actually deleted when you delete something. all of the rest of the clusters that the computer used for the filestill contain data and this data can be scattered all over the hard drive because when the computer writes a file it usesthe clusters it can find first. ccleaner is a great program but i don't think it removes data that it can't identify.the best way i know of how to remove this data is to defrag the drive. if defragcan't associate the data with a file name it will discard.

 

+ 1 on dban!