http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: East-Tec Eraser: delayed system restart/shutdown en Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:50:36 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1100#post-6303 Mon, 28 May 2007 17:46:42 +0000 MidnightRambler 6303@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Turns out Eraser permanently changed a swapfile wipe registry setting without warning from 0 to 1:</p> <p>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\ClearPageFileAtShutdownREG_DWORD.</p> <p>Pretty sneaky, especially since it also didn't provide method to correct.</p> <p>For those interested, see <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/05/wipe_swap_file/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/05/wipe_swap_file/</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1100#post-6295 Mon, 28 May 2007 13:47:58 +0000 MidnightRambler 6295@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I saw that before (posting this issue), unchecked it and rebooted but the program still always clears it (the pagefile) after reboot causing the delay.</p> <p>In fact, I unchecked ALL components under "Privacy Guard" Tab Activation with the exception of "Custom" which apparently can't be deselected.</p> <p>It's as if this is some kind of bug or if not, must be adjusted in the registry settings somehow.</p> <p>Good program overall, however. Especially the desktop drag and drop file erasure. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1100#post-6287 Mon, 28 May 2007 12:19:35 +0000 BuBBy 6287@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It's under "Privacy Guard" on the "Windows" Tab.</p> <p>See <a href="http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/6233/20070528221819ku0.png">HERE</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1100#post-6285 Mon, 28 May 2007 11:36:45 +0000 MidnightRambler 6285@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Noticed immediately after installation of East-Tec Eraser 2007 that my WinXP Home SP2 system took noticeably longer to reboot.</p> <p>Yahooed "WinXP boot delay" and found: "Correspondent Graeme J.W. Smith reported a more obscure cause of slow shutdown: In Win XP Professional, the Group Policy Editor has a security option to clear the pagefile at system shutdown. The same setting also forces the hibernation file to be wiped at shutdown. These processes take long enough that users may think that shutdown has hung. To change the setting, click Start | Run, type GPEDIT.MSC, click OK. Drill down to Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies | Security Options. In the right pane, find “Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile.” NOTE: Since someone actually has to have set this policy, the problem will be pretty rare, but is worth mentioning. However, Forum participant “roadrunner” reported that the personal security app Privacy Eraser automatically enables “Clear virtual memory pagefile,” and, therefore, may be the cause of a slow shutdown."</p> <p>Surmised that East-Tec Eraser ALSO automatically enabled “Clear virtual memory pagefile,” but can't find program setting to disable it. </p> <p>To test theory, uninstalled East-Tec Eraser 2007 and found problem vanished. Then reinstalled program and problem reappeared. </p> <p>Rather annoying; don't need/want clearing of pagefile after every reboot. </p>