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

From: Shooter (nospam_at_nospam.spam)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:47:42 +0000 (UTC)

XP takes a little bit of getting used to, and there are some holes in
security.

But I've found it to be incredibly stable - almost bullet proof. I run my
online business on it and it hasn't let me down yet.

New service packs give me the heebie jeebies though - I download them onto a
copy of my main computer first to check whether they will mess anything up.
It's not that they have caused me problems with XP, but SP2 is on its way,
and a SP for Win98 some years ago crashed my system so badly that I lost
some important files...

Full backwards compatibility can never be assured - it might be asking a bit
much of XP to deal with all DOS applications.

(I don't attempt to stick compact cassettes in my CD player :-)

<FlitchGlitch@NOSpamISP.net> wrote in message
news:cvjjc05a2268rjftfppgkdsvnfg3gk3gsk@4ax.com...
> 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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