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Heidi, do you realize that not everyone runs at 100% zoom in Windows? WAKE UP! Your stupid windows don't show all the contents all the time. Then along some doofus came along and just RUINED this program. Without a doubt, this program was well conceived - in the beginning when everything was dark and void. If you are paranoid, you can create a 'backup' of your registry before you make any changes. You just use REGEDIT to correct whatever mistake you made including just deleting everything you added and starting all over again. Many people think that making a mistake doing this will destroy their machine but it won't. In the other case, you have to add the entry I described in my 'post'.

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You need to locate the two entries I have identified (HKLM means HKey_Local_Machine) and change the '/' to '-' in the entry built by Eraser Install in one case.

To make my changes, you need to right-click on 'Command Prompt' (in Accessories), select 'Run as Administrator', type in 'regedit' and hit enter to bring up the Registry Editor. Anyone experiencing this difficulty may want to read my 'post' to this Forum (Install Bug & Enhancement - Registry Entries) on how I solved these problem until the Eraser people can decide exactly which approach they want to use. There are several ways of addressing the issues each of you encountered. I am disappointed that there appears that there is no Eraser 'support' reading & answering this forum. Kudos to DavidHB for the 1st and Garrett01 and GregM for the 2nd. The information you need is given in the answers to a question - fourth down the list - from alexandra18 titled 'unused disc space'. (2) I ran a search with the keyword 'permissions'. Note that, when Eraser is running elevated, you cannot drag and drop on to the Eraser window from an Explorer window that is running normally this is a Windows restriction.' Then right-click on the Eraser program icon on the Desktop or the Start Menu and select Run as Administrator. To do this, first close the running instance of Eraser by right-clicking on the small Eraser icon in the System Tray at the right hand end of the Taskbar and selecting Exit Eraser.

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Halfway down is the following paragraph: 'Running Eraser as Administrator - For some erasing tasks, and in particular when you erase free space on a drive, Windows Vista or Windows 7 may require that you run Eraser as Administrator (also known as 'running elevated'). It's a useful intro, and begins with the sentence 'Read this even if you don’t want to read the manual'.

(1) In the Eraser FAQ, 'Getting to know Eraser 6' is the second topic.

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I'm on Windows 8.1 and running Eraser Build 6.0.10 with the most recent updates (as at 17 Sept 2014) installed.

Though I don't know if it was necessary to use both. I used both the problem has been solved and the empty space is happily being erased right now. In the Forums I found two fixes, though there may be more. I'm a newbie and I had exactly the same problem.

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