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[Jetico]

All the warnings are done before starting the process.
During the process BCWipe may report some errors - to avoid this, please configure BCWipe to use the log file
and set the option "Skip error notifications". Then all the error messages will be sent to the log file,
instead of the screen.

[JTW555]

Another question about this feature.  Does it warn you about this right before you run BCwipe or does it do it sometime in the middle after it is been running a while?  Same with other warning it may give, do they all happen at the beginning or also during the middle of a wipe?

Reason I ask is because I would like running a wipe while I'm away from my computer and obviously won't be able to answer these boxes while gone.

[cpupro]

Unfortunately BCWipe cannot define whether a copy of a special file exists in Restore Point or not.
It just detects existence of Restore Point.

Probably in some future version we will implement such advanced intelligence, but right now we do not know how to do so.

But BCWipe always gives the opportunity to wipe without turning System Restore off (i.e. deleting Restore Points).

Thank you for the feedback it gives me information for working with this going forward.

[Jetico]

Unfortunately BCWipe cannot define whether a copy of a special file exists in Restore Point or not.
It just detects existence of Restore Point.

Probably in some future version we will implement such advanced intelligence, but right now we do not know how to do so.

But BCWipe always gives the opportunity to wipe without turning System Restore off (i.e. deleting Restore Points).

[cpupro]

Let me be more specific, I will try to explain this.

If you accept the "turn off system restore" what happens is that it DELETES all previous restore points.

I asked this because of an example that I did. Win7 Ultimate x64, I did a manual "system restore" for these tests. Went into "system restore" saw the manual restore point that I did. I then did "delete with wiping" on a file and the notice came up "do you want to turn system restore off", which I did. When "system restore" was turned off by BC Wipe and the file was wiped I went back into Windows 7 "system restore" and ALL restore points were gone, specifically the manual one I did just prior to this.

In my opinion if it is deleting all of the restore points you have no where to "roll back" the system to if you install something that isn't working, NO restore points to work with.

I would like a better understanding of what this is about, if I didn't have another way of restoring, WHS, I would be in trouble if something happened. I "delete with wiping" numerous times during the day, this message to turn off "system restore" is present so in essence I never have anything to restore to.

More Details - When I did the "system restore" in Win7 I checked to make sure it was there and functional. I then went out to another computer and the file that I brought over to "wipe" was something that had never been on this computer, ever. It was a document from 1989 that I had so I know it was never on the computer. The backup that I made on Win7 didn't have this file so when I brought this file over, "wiped" it and per BC Wipe turned off "system restore" it deleted the previous Win7 system restore that I had, it didn't have the file that I brought over to it, why did it delete the previous restore?

From Windows 7 - "Restore points are saved until the disk space System Restore reserves is filled up. As new restore points are created, old ones are deleted. If you turn off system protection (the feature that creates restore points) on a disk, all restore points are deleted from that disk. When you turn system protection back on, new restore points are created."

[Jetico]

Such option isn't implemented in BCWipe for security reasons.
If you are wiping file without turning off the System Restore, so-called "shadow copy" of the file will remain in system.
We feel it our duty to remind regularly about information leakage with SR turned on.
There is a good saying: "better safe than sorry".

[cpupro]

I have this notification come up a lot for turning "off" the System Restore. I do not want to turn off the System Restore. Is there somewhere that I can tell the application that I don't want to turn off System Restore so that I don't get this message?