cCleaner

Interesting statement. Since a block needs total erasure in order to write *anything* I wonder if that's done when it 'taken out of use' or when its 'readied for new use'...

If the former, data is irrevocably junked the moment the block is taken off the list of 'blocks in use'

I expect that if you have hardware encryption, which I think most do nowadays, then the master key is combined with the block address to produce a per-block key. As soon as the block is retired then its block address changes and that means decrypting the data with the new key returns random noise. That's seperate from erase cycles which happen asynchronously.

Theo

Said one farmer to the other - They tell me that Mandy Rice-Davies is a Coll girl. I have lived all my life on the island and I have never met her.

Sorry but you're a clueless buffoon and shouldn't be in charge of crayons never mind a computer.

Just had an exciting mail! Version 7.0 is available:-)

I take it the group advice, apart from avoid altogether, is don't use V7.0>

Ah...that's another case then. The data (encrypted or not) is simplk erased at a convenient time after the block is taken out of service...

I wasn't given the option.

I am using a 1600x900 17" screen and the installer fell off the edges, it is a multi app thing so not sizeable and when it installed it started some sort of scan and said it was going to delete 1600 files.

Apart from that...

She only said one thing of note in her life...

Doesn't windows have some sort of zoom feature? I had that installing linux on an EEPC, and found some way to shift the window around to get at offscreen bits and I think to make it smaller

..."that we know of"... ©Lindsay Nikole...

I don't know what brought on that little tantrum, have you never felt the need to securely delete bank statement, medical documents, documents with passwords in etc?

Tickbox (possibly 2) in Options.

Found it thanks!

"the installer fell off the edges"

I'm almost afraid to ask what that means :-)

My screen is running at 200%, as it is HiDPI and being a 27" screen, the screen is too small and should have been a 32" screen (none in stock). I only bought another monitor, as my 1440x900 screen conked out (presumably power supply, status indicator LED flashing).

For [Windows] Accessibility, there is also a Magnifying Glass.

I don't think anything has fallen off the edge of mine. You can use the "desktop" button in the lower right corner, to minimize all windows, or to return all windows to the inflated state.

You cannot see the desktop button, "unless you are over it". Which is the silliest piece of GUI crap design I've ever seen. Here, with the mouse cursor in the corner, the vertical stick is now visible. And a balloon shows the definition of what the stick does. For the longest while, I didn't even know that's where they had moved that function.

Paul

It is *deflation* that is required.

That is, the size of the dialogue box in his installer *exceeds* the size of screen he has available... and the installer offers no scrollable options ...

On linux there is a some kind of option to at least move a window around to access the hidden parts

Actually, they wouldn't. Linux is inherently a derivative of a multi tasking multi-user operating system (Unix) with inbuilt security and protection at the foundation. Windows is a development of a single user single tasking operating system (MSDOS) which has had everything else bolted on as an extra . It wasn't until Windows NT that it even started to be comparable with Unix.

Windows is ubiquitous not because it is superior, but because it is a standard.

But its gradually losing its grip as more and more companies decide to support linux. Companies like IBM...

How useable is Window10/11 without full privileges?

I certainly remember in the past that it was a pain just to do normal activities and thus now always give the user Adminstrator rights.

The window was too big to see all its contents and all the controls were massive. It usually happens with software written for Linux and posted to Windows or written on one of these programs that can make code run on anything. The windows wasn't re-sizeable and didn't have a control box. More and more programs turning up like this nowadays.

I don't have such a button, I may have turned it off or it may be because my Taskbar is vertical, not horizontal.

Not really. The most dangerous criminals in the country, and the ones most likely to do me harm, and the ones who make most mistakes already have complete access to all this information at the source. Professional confidentiality is a thing of the distant past.

None of my passwords ever appear in any file in unencrypted form, and I have never let Google 'sign me in' to anything, nor let any web browser store credentials. Yes, it's a bit less convenient to look after my own security, but I'm asking for trouble if I don't.

If I was on the board of a plc, or was a cabinet minister or even MP, I would be more careful, but I'm not. In those cases I would be provided with the requisite tools to maintain security and if it was in the private sector, required by law to use them. Apparently cabinet ministers are allowed to use insecure and unarchived means of communication, like Hillary Clinton in the USA.