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nelson391

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« on: 29 March 2004, 01:25 »
Found the forum and thought I would ask a few questions.

I am running XP. I read the artical about "hidden files" and was not happy. Anyone here that can share how to get rid of "hidden files" in XP?---

things such as Outlook Express mailings, OS DAT files, secret logs, etc? True DOS is not possible in XP from what I have read, so what now? What commands/formatting/executions need to be made to ensure my own privacy. I am now considering selling my current PC tpo obtain a MAC, so I need to clean my old PC out....I mean really clean it.

Thanks for any advice.
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« Reply #1 on: 29 March 2004, 01:46 »
Before I can give you advice, can you tell me if you're running on a NTFS filesystem or FAT32?
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« Reply #2 on: 29 March 2004, 01:59 »
quote:
Originally posted by nelson391:
Found the forum and thought I would ask a few questions.

I am running XP. I read the artical about "hidden files" and was not happy. Anyone here that can share how to get rid of "hidden files" in XP?---

things such as Outlook Express mailings, OS DAT files, secret logs, etc? True DOS is not possible in XP from what I have read, so what now? What commands/formatting/executions need to be made to ensure my own privacy. I am now considering selling my current PC tpo obtain a MAC, so I need to clean my old PC out....I mean really clean it.

Thanks for any advice.


I hate to say this mate but this site is NOT A WINDOWS HELP SITE!

It's a site that is for users who hate windows!

I think you should post your query on any of the hundreds of crappy windows sites on the internet.

Or do windows pc users dont help each other??
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« Reply #3 on: 29 March 2004, 02:50 »
The system that I am running is NTFS. Thanks for any help.


Solar,
I am becoming more and more disgusted with MS by the day and the privacy issue I just read about does not impress me one little bit, nor do you.


I think you should rethink your tone, no one appreciates cockiness.
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« Reply #4 on: 29 March 2004, 03:06 »
OK, download Knoppix.

Burn it on a CD.

Reboot while keeping the CD inside. It should load Linux from the CD, without changing your hard-disk in any way.

Right click on the hard-disk icon, and select "Make hda1 read" or something simular.

Now, delete all the stuff that The Riddler wrote in his article.

Back in Windows, start using Mozilla or Opera immediatly, and never start Outlook or Internet Explorer again!
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« Reply #5 on: 29 March 2004, 22:10 »
Thanks for the help!
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« Reply #6 on: 29 March 2004, 11:20 »
What if my pc has raid and knoppix does not understand it?
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« Reply #7 on: 29 March 2004, 11:58 »
I could sworn I had posted in this thread.

anyway Linux, including Knoppix, can't write to NTFS, so that option is no good.

IIRC, FreeDOS or the recovery console (accessed from booting the install CD) can write, so perhaps you might want to try that option.
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« Reply #8 on: 29 March 2004, 18:54 »
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Sauron The Deceiver: anyway Linux, including Knoppix, can't write to NTFS, so that option is no good.


Knoppix can, and the latest Linux kernel can certainly.
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« Reply #9 on: 30 March 2004, 23:33 »
Wow thats cool, I might try Knoppix (i'll get my dad to download & burn it).  :D
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« Reply #10 on: 30 March 2004, 23:35 »
This rules, we all use Linux here (my dad is using Mandrake 9.0 because he managed to break Debian trying to modify the kernel   :(  but if he can burn that would rule, Mandrake is looking very nice (i've seen Mandrake 10.0 in action), I think I might dual boot Mandrake 10.0 & Fedora Core 1 because I might not be too sure about Mandrake in the end.  
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« Reply #11 on: 2 April 2004, 22:11 »
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Originally posted by Refalm:


Knoppix can, and the latest Linux kernel can certainly.


Are you sure about that? I tried Knoppix and it said readable: no for my NTFS hard drives.

edit: oops, I meant writable.

Anyway, is there full NTFS support for Linux these days? I've tried to find that out but no luck. One source says it's "experimental", one says no, one says read-only.

NB: I have no experience with Linux apart from using Knoppix a few times so if you give me an answer even a little complicated, I probably won't understand it.  

[ April 02, 2004: Message edited by: Shiver ]

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« Reply #12 on: 3 April 2004, 01:14 »
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Originally posted by Sex_Pistols_Fan_Linux_RuleZ_Windows:
I think I might dual boot Mandrake 10.0 & Fedora Core 1 because I might not be too sure about Mandrake in the end.    


Mandrake 10.0 is kinda buggy, you're best off with 9.2 IMO.
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« Reply #13 on: 3 April 2004, 09:13 »
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Originally posted by Shiver:

Anyway, is there full NTFS support for Linux these days? I've tried to find that out but no luck. One source says it's "experimental", one says no, one says read-only.


Well it's still classified as experimental I think, but last I heard, kernel 2.6 could do reads and writes safely, but writes are slow.
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« Reply #14 on: 3 April 2004, 12:27 »
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Originally posted by M. O'Brien:


Well it's still classified as experimental I think, but last I heard, kernel 2.6 could do reads and writes safely, but writes are slow.


Ok. Thanks for the reply.
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