Re: Yikes! Shortcuts from hell. The devil's in my machine!

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From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (mrxp2004_at_nospamyahoo.com)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:20:53 -0500

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Carey Frisch
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Windows XP - Shell/User
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<FlitchGlitch@NOSpamISP.net> wrote in message:
 news:5c7ic0h1iqnb0v18tpifaqhi7k91g9ko0r@4ax.com...
| What on earth is the problem with Bill? Get this: I buy a new machine
| with XP installed... that's installed on Disk 0 which of course is C.
| After notifying Bill of my existence and getting rid of some of the
| baby-talk and nanny-isms I add in my old HD as Disk 1, D through I.
|
| The old HD (Disk 1) had all sorts of obsolete junk, some of which may
| of course prove useful in the future, so I copied the maybe-useful
| stuff over to a directory on C called "OldCDrive". Suddenly I find
| shortcuts to programs etc from Win3.1, DOS 6.2, NT, and Win2K sitting
| in C:Documents and Settings\User\Recent. I never created these.
| Methinks that Nanny Bill has been sticking his nose where it isn't
| wanted and creating these automatically.
|
| Apart from the waste of space, this might create installation
| difficulties. This came to my notice because I'm about to install
| WinZip and I noted that I have an old WinZip 3.1 GRP and a  Winzip.INI
| file left over from the mid-nineties when I had a demo copy. Nanny
| Bill has created in XP a shortcut to the .INI file What's going to
| happen when I install the current 32 bit program?
|
| OK, you're not responsible for the silliness of Bill but you can tell
| me:
|
| 1) can I crush (delete) everything in C:Documents and
| Settings\User\Recent? Now and often in the future?
|
| 2) How do I stop XP from noticing these things and creating shortcuts
| other than when I explicitly tell it to?
|
| And while we're at it: What are these little files "thumbnails.db" I
| find all over the place? How do I stop THEM breeding?
|
| Are there any other little nasties that I haven't yet found?
|
|

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