Scheduling Wiper (trim)

[Hell Racer]

Wiper Does not work on any Raid Array, keep this in mind.

I've tried to schedule wiper to run weekly (at Sunday night in my case), but it seems like it requires user to press Y anyway and doesn't run automatically without interaction. I've tried to find solution here on the forum, but didn't find it (hm, did I just miss it?). So after some research I've found pretty straightforward way to run it using VBScript. The method has several limitations but maybe it will be ok for someone . It requires user to be logged on (i.e. it will not work in the background). Works ok in Windows XP, didn't try on others.

1. Create Wiper.vbs with the following text:

Dim WShell: Set WShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WShell.Run "c:\wiper.exe"
WScript.Sleep 100
WShell.SendKeys "y"

Change the path to wiper accordingly.

2. Win+R -> Tasks.
3. Drag your Wiper.vbs file into Tasks folder, open task properties and set necessary schedule.

I also cleared all check boxes on the Settings tab and enabled "Run only if logged on" on the Task tab.

Pre patched wiper 0525 with no need to hit Y anymore...http://dl.dropbox.com/u/920660/wiper_0525_patched.zip

[FZ1]

You can run it this way:

Set Command = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
cmd = "c:\wiper.exe"
Command.Run (cmd)
WScript.Sleep 100
Command.SendKeys "y"
WScript.Sleep 100
Command.SendKeys "Enter"

Save it as yourfile.vbs and put in your startup folder. It will run whenever you startup the PC.

[lowfat]

do VBS work in Vista/7? I can't get it to work. It just opens it up in Notepad, and yes i saved it as a .vbs not a .txt

[Hell Racer]

do VBS work in Vista/7? I can't get it to work. It just opens it up in Notepad, and yes i saved it as a .vbs not a .txt

You can try to modify the task ("Run:") to

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cscript.exe C:\wiper.vbs

(change path to the script accordingly, use " symbols if the path contains spaces)

[FZ1]

do VBS work in Vista/7? I can't get it to work. It just opens it up in Notepad, and yes i saved it as a .vbs not a .txt

It should work in all versions of Windows. I ran it in 7RC 64bit (at least my version).

One other thought, you could use Windows scheduler to run it on a custom schedule.

[5150cd]

How often can you run wiper? Does it hurt the drive if you were to run it every day, every week?

[Hell Racer]

That depends on how you use the drive. Calculate how much you write per day and schedule wiper to run every [Drive Size / GB written per day] days.

[Halk]

Wiper does not hurt the drive. It skips over sections of the drive that do not need to be cleaned. For the sections that do need to be cleaned they need to be cleaned before writing anyway, so no additional wear is caused.

[lowfat]

Ok, i was a moron. Damn Vista. Even if you save the file from notepad as a .vbs it saves it as a .vbs.txt. So after making vista show all file extensions i noticed my problem. Works now

[roaminggnom]

Would this work for my entire drive if I only have 20GB Partitioned for Windows? [Bootcamp]

[Hell Racer]

I don't think so.

[saint-francis]

I can't for the life of me get this to work. W7 RC x64 here. And it's certainly a .vbs not .txt. I keep getting errors.

With the first script I get:

Line: 2
Char: 1
Error The system cannot find the file specified.

I have correctly modified the path to wiper.exe.

With the second script I get:

Line: 3
Char: 1
Error The system cannot find the file specified.

[Hell Racer]

Did you change path to wiper according to its real location (or placed it into C:\ folder)?

[saint-francis]

Did you change path to wiper according to its real location?

Sure did.

[Hell Racer]

Try to place it on C:\ first and see if it works. I think the path is incorrect somehow .