Trivial MS secret & Win98 weirdities.
My system has a lot of partitions, each of which has a recycle bin.
I recently discovered that (except for C-drive), all the recycle bins contain a Desktip.ini file. Explorer does not show these files. Neither the Disk Cleanup utility nor the empty recycle bin function will remove these files. You need some third party utility like Ztree to see these files.
I have two systems. My older system has 73 Desktop.ini files, about 20 of which seem to be temporary internet files. The lnewer system has about 20-30 of these files.
I am not sure if the older system has more because it has had more time to accumulate them, or it has more because it has more folders.
Do any of you know anything about the above? I wonder why they exist.
It looks to me as though the files in the recycle bins are required, and MS tries to hide them from the user so he will not erase them, and cause some problem.
I wonder what else MS keeps secret for our own good.
I hate condescending bastards who try to protect me from my own stupidity. Damn it all, give me the information and let me take care of myself. One of my pet peeves is the governement trying to protect fools from their folly, which cannot be done. In the meantime, they create restictions and red tape that annoy the hell out of the rest of us.
I tolerated my mother who did not think I could cross a busy street on my own when I was forty, while everybody else seemed to think I was as least a bit smarter than a moron. If I could do something about it, I would not tolerate the MS Big brother attitude, although I otherwise am satisfied with their behavior and products.
Re: Trivial MS secret & Win98 weirdities.
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Originally posted by Guv
If I could do something about it, I would not tolerate the MS Big brother attitude, although I otherwise am satisfied with their behavior and products.
Don't use Windows. I try not to.
Government bad! People good!
Simonm: As a disciple of Ayn Rand, almost anything will cause me to rage about the government.
I am not interested in moving to another country because I do not know of any that would be better in the long run. The USA seems to find non revolutionary ways to swing pendulums back when they get too far in one direction. We got rid of McCarthyism, managed to get Nixon out of office, and put Agnew in jail. Too bad a lot of others escaped justice.
Just remember that the government does not have to be cost effective and they have the legal right to use lethal force, which makes them potentially more dangerous than anybody. You have a good chance of avoiding organized crime, and you cannot be forced to buy a car or any other consumer product. If you run afoul of the government, they will spend millions and much manpower to enforce their will, even though it might be a trivial matter and the citizen is on firm ethical ground. You should read about some of the IRS outrages and the evil application of forfeiture laws by the Justice Department.
A government is a necessary evil, which is likely to be better than anarchy in the so called Western democracies, but it can evolve into some really evil if not watched carefully.
