February, 2002      Diablo Blue     Page 3

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Using this product is extremely simple. Simply click in Windows Explorer with the right mouse button on a particular file, and choose the menu item “Erase”. This right-click feature itself is worth its weight in gold. If you answer with “Yes”, the file and its contents will be overwritten with meaningless bits up to 35 times. Studies have shown that overwriting three times is enough that data cannot be retrieved.

Three user interfaces are included: a standard wipe utility, a convenient Explorer shell extension, and a scheduler that automates the process of erasing unused disk space or cache files. You can determine how many times Eraser will write over data. Choose Edit – Preferences - Erasing.

This utility has a comprehensive help menu. There you will find a variety of tips and tricks for eliminating files.

Eraser 5.3 runs under Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. To get Eraser go to http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/download.shtml and download ERASER53.ZIP. To Install the program, unzip the file ERASER53.ZIP, start SETUP.EXE, and follow the instructions to use the software.

Not only has the Kodak imaging application (for viewing/editing .tif — i.e. fax files) disappeared in Windows ME but also from XP, having been replaced by MS's own pretty, but non-functional viewer (it can't properly view 200x100 resolution faxes). I managed to add the original W95 and W2k Kodak image editor into XP using the following procedure. John Hunter

1. Make a new subdirectory in 'Programs' called 'Imaging'

2a. for W9x: Copy into your new subdirectory 'KODAKIMG.EXE' from the \Windows directory and the following files from \Windows\System:

OIUI400.DLL

OITWA400.DLL

OIPRT400.DLL

OISLB400.DLL

OISSQ400.DLL

OIADM400.DLL

OICOM400.DLL

OIDIS400.DLL

OIFIL400.DLL

OIGFS400.DLL

IMGCMN.DLL

IMGEDIT.OCX

IMGSCAN.OCX

IMGSHL.DLL

IMGTHUMB.OCX

IMGADMIN.OCX

IMGOCXD.HLP

2b. for W2K: Copy into your new subdirectory 'Kodakimg.exe' from \Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\ImageVue and the following files from \Windows\System32:

OCKODAK.DLL

OIENG400.DLL

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