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Easy Removal of Windows Super Hidden Temp Files
OperationUndermind:
Thanks for your input, but I'll keep letting my startup batch file delete these files anyway just to be certain.
:nothappy: o p e r a t i o n u n d e r m i n d :nothappy:
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I forgot to say that Microsoft didn't mean any ill intent by not deleting the files in Windows 9x it was just a bug caused by poor programming.
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What about the folders being "really hidden" then? Surely they put alot of effort into doing that.
Aloone_Jonez:
The folders are hidden because Explorer doesn't read them the same way as normal folders it treats them as system folders uses the indexing system made up of the index.dat files to read them. When you view the Temporary Internet Files folder you're actually looking at the contents of Content.IE5 DSFSDFSDF, SEWREWR, and WEREWRE, the index.dat files store a list of websites and the appropiete files for each in the Content.IE5 folder.
MarathoN:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---When you view the Temporary Internet Files folder you're actually looking at the contents of Content.IE5 DSFSDFSDF, SEWREWR, and WEREWRE, the index.dat files store a list of websites and the appropiete files for each in the Content.IE5 folder.
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I always thought that was the case, thanks for assuring me that I was correct. :thumbup:
davidnix71:
Editing the desktop.ini files works fine in 98/ME to unhide ContentIE, but what about anything NT based? (NT,2000,XP). Root-kits take advantage of a "feature" in NT that allows someone to create a file at the root and then hide it from the root.
If M$ really wanted to be devious, they would simply have IE create an accelerated privilege account to store all the info they wanted to have sent home to Bill. Even if YOU knew the info was hidden and where it was hidden, short of 'forcing' the hd open to force overwrite those sectors, or reformatting the hd, you couldn't view or delete it.
I had a Trash-80 a lonnnng time ago. There were commands called peek and poke that allowed you to manually read or write to an address, but even that was ram only.
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