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Re: OT - Super-hidden files on Windows XP
From:
Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:33:13 +0100
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In message <[log in to unmask]>, Denys
Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> writes
>On a system similar to yours, I also have content.ie5 not hidden and a total
>of 42,766 files in 34 folders for 430MB.  So, I went into IE and used tools
>and purged the temp files.  Now WE shows 31 files, 14 folders and 16.4MB.
>15.4 MB are in one file, \\content.IE5\index.dat.
>
>Oh crumbs, another non-conspiracy.

:-)

I forgot to ask: what do we think that index.dat is indexing? 15.4 Mb is
quite a chunk.

And just you try opening or deleting it. You'll find Windows holding
onto it for dear life....

Clue: that's where all this stuff went before the WinXP approach was
used. Betcha your life surfing history is in there......
--
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  Wm Morris

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