Re: Yikes! Shortcuts from hell. The devil's in my machine!
FlitchGlitch_at_NOSpamISP.net
Date: 06/11/04
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:40:07 GMT
See comments at end.
Tom Porterfield <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote:
>FlitchGlitch@NOSpamISP.net wrote:
>> 1) can I crush (delete) everything in C:Documents and
>> Settings\User\Recent? Now and often in the future?
>
>Yes, clear it whenever you want. It just contains shortcuts to files
>you recently accessed. Having those shortcuts there will in no way
>effect anything else you do on the computer. A shortcut to an old
>version of WinZip in your recent folder will not impact an installation
>of the latest version of WinZip.
>
>> 2) How do I stop XP from noticing these things and creating shortcuts
>> other than when I explicitly tell it to?
>
>TweakUI has a setting to turn this off (so that means it's probably in
>the registry somewhere). You can download Tweak UI (one of the Windows
>XP PowerToys) from
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp. After
>installing, run Tweak UI. On the left select Explorer and on the right
>find the setting called "Maintain document history". Remove the check
>from that setting and apply your change.
>
>> 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?
>
>Those contain a database of the thumbnail images of the files in that
>folder. If you switch your folder view to thumbnail you will see those
>images. By creating and storing them in a db file Windows doesn't have
>to regenerate those images every time you browse into a folder. Windows
>creates the thumbnails.db file the first time you view a folder in
>thumbnail view, updating that file when a refresh occurs. If you never
>switch to thumbnail view then the file won't be generated. You can
>safely delete existing ones, the only impact will be the need for
>Windows to regenerate if you want to see thumbnails.
>
>> Are there any other little nasties that I haven't yet found?
>
>Who knows? So far the things you have listed I don't consider to be
>nasty at all.
Now there we are. Thanks to you and to Shooter.
I apologize if I sounded testy before. I've had a hell of a job trying
to get my old DOS programs working in XP (they're still not 100%) and
I simply wasn't in a mood to put up with this sort of hand holding
that XP seems to go on with. Now if they'd handhold when trying to run
programs that conform to VESA 3.0 that'd be useful... <g>
I think I'd also be happier with Win2K (actually I'd be happiest with
a 32 bit version of DOS 6.2 <g>) where there's far less emphasis (so
I'm told) on the game playing, video watching, and other non-serious
uses of the PC. I'm considering junking XP and installing it instead.
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