"Pbbbtt!!" - Bill T Cat:)
Actually, it appears it may be a 'feature' of Office XP that does it. In which case, the question is valid. Either way, my bad.
What do you want? I'm Drunk on the Floor.
My statement stands. Part of knowing computers, is knowing how people use computers.
Consider this. When you delete a file, all that happens is a 'flag' is changed stating that that particular sector and track address is changed and the OS sees it as available space, however the way the file system is written, the OS will not actually use that space until the space that has never been written is used. This is how disk drives become fragmented.
Now, when you run a disk optimizer like defrag or other utilities, what happens is that the utility takes all of the 'flagged spaces and fills them with the data from the most recently written sectors of the disk and changes the sequence addresses that tell the file system what sector contains the next data segment.
When these changes are made the binary information that was changed is recorded in a logfile used for error checking to make sure that the data written to the 'flagged' sector matches the data in the source sector. This still leaves a trace behind because the data in the source sector is not deleted, just copied, and the log file details all of the changes, even if you choose not to view it.
Lastly, even if you delete the log file the data that makes it up still exists in those sectors on the disk. Aside from all of that, most people aren't this thorough, so that is why I wrote what I wrote.
Class dismissed.
-Drunk on the Floor
See above post to NJ.
1. Lighten up. I goofed, I admitted it. Get over yourself.
2. Way more than you, I'd wager.
3. See top of message.
Lastly, if you're going to put someone else down, maybe you'd like to attach a name.
Now excuse me while I return to being Drunk on the Floor.
I tried, but it had already been slashdotted, so I had to hypothesize.
I stand justly corrected.
Well, actually, I don't stand, since I am just a Drunk on the Floor.:)
My bad. (BURP!)
Seeing as it's actually illegal to record someone without there permission or a legal warrant. If it could be proven that this is on by default when XP is installed, without informing the user of this in any way, Microsoft could have to increase their legal budget by quite a bit.
Imagine if this happens to someone like a court stenographer or the FBI/CIA/Military. Particularly disturbing given that almost no data that has been on a Windows machine is ever actually deleted, just the file addresses.
Creepy doesn't even begin to describe it.
Ugh.
DotF(Drunk on the Floor)
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"Pbbbtt!!" - Bill T Cat :)
Actually, it appears it may be a 'feature' of Office XP that does it. In which case, the question is valid. Either way, my bad.
What do you want? I'm Drunk on the Floor.
My statement stands. Part of knowing computers, is knowing how people use computers. Consider this. When you delete a file, all that happens is a 'flag' is changed stating that that particular sector and track address is changed and the OS sees it as available space, however the way the file system is written, the OS will not actually use that space until the space that has never been written is used. This is how disk drives become fragmented. Now, when you run a disk optimizer like defrag or other utilities, what happens is that the utility takes all of the 'flagged spaces and fills them with the data from the most recently written sectors of the disk and changes the sequence addresses that tell the file system what sector contains the next data segment. When these changes are made the binary information that was changed is recorded in a logfile used for error checking to make sure that the data written to the 'flagged' sector matches the data in the source sector. This still leaves a trace behind because the data in the source sector is not deleted, just copied, and the log file details all of the changes, even if you choose not to view it. Lastly, even if you delete the log file the data that makes it up still exists in those sectors on the disk. Aside from all of that, most people aren't this thorough, so that is why I wrote what I wrote. Class dismissed. -Drunk on the Floor
See above post to NJ. 1. Lighten up. I goofed, I admitted it. Get over yourself. 2. Way more than you, I'd wager. 3. See top of message. Lastly, if you're going to put someone else down, maybe you'd like to attach a name. Now excuse me while I return to being Drunk on the Floor.
I tried, but it had already been slashdotted, so I had to hypothesize. I stand justly corrected. Well, actually, I don't stand, since I am just a Drunk on the Floor. :)
My bad. (BURP!)
Seeing as it's actually illegal to record someone without there permission or a legal warrant. If it could be proven that this is on by default when XP is installed, without informing the user of this in any way, Microsoft could have to increase their legal budget by quite a bit. Imagine if this happens to someone like a court stenographer or the FBI/CIA/Military. Particularly disturbing given that almost no data that has been on a Windows machine is ever actually deleted, just the file addresses. Creepy doesn't even begin to describe it. Ugh. DotF(Drunk on the Floor)