Thanks for your comments,
YET the "AS Cleaner 0.5" program itself says Microsoft is the author in 2009.
I was once a Microsoft software engineer and still work on many XP computers so I may know something.
"AS Cleaner 0.5" is mostly famous among computer technicians who still use XP. Microsoft may want the 200 million users of XP (32 bit) to wrongly think that they must buy Win7 if they want to use SSD's.
In truth, "AS Cleaner 0.5" allows XP users to manually trim their SSD back to the original FAST performance. No other program is better. The key to success is to check the "FF" box so "1" (1 = erased for use
without an erase cycle before write) is written to all the free Nand on the SSD.
You can still download "AS Cleaner 0.5" here for free:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum ... 1257418520
When you unzip the download, it titles itself "FreeSpaceCleaner.exe" and its "Properties, Version" tab says:
File version 1.0.0.0
Copyright Microsoft Corporation 2009
Of course, that may be the
compiler specifications and not the actual program itself. To my knowledge, no company claims credit for creating "AS Cleaner 0.5" or "FreeSpaceCleaner.exe". Microsoft might be unfriendly towards that company.
Regarding your question, "Why didn´t you disable FC during the operation of AS Cleaner?"
I do not see any "disable" button or function. Where is it, please?
However, I did try all of the following: "Pause Caching" "Stop Caching" "Pause DeferWrite" and even "Exiting" the program entirely.
None of these prevent my computers from freezing (totally stopping) when I run "AS Cleaner 0.5" ("FreeSpaceCleaner.exe")
Currently , the only way I can run "FreeSpaceCleaner.exe" is to UNINSTALL FC entirely and reboot before running this great trim program.
Sadly, this means I must uninstall, reboot, then re-install and reboot every week or so in order to use FC.
So, again, HELP!
No one knows for sure, but I believe that the trim command in AS Cleaner 0.5 (FreeSpaceCleaner.exe) updates the nand bitmaps via the Windows System Cache so "1's" (= ready available) are registered.