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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: nelson391 on 29 March 2004, 01:25
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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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Before I can give you advice, can you tell me if you're running on a NTFS filesystem or FAT32?
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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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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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OK, download Knoppix (http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=44).
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 (http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/) or Opera (http://www.opera.com/download/) immediatly, and never start Outlook or Internet Explorer again!
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Thanks for the help!
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What if my pc has raid and knoppix does not understand it?
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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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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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Wow thats cool, I might try Knoppix (i'll get my dad to download & burn it). :D
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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. (http://tongue.gif)
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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. (http://smile.gif)
[ April 02, 2004: Message edited by: Shiver ]
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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. (http://tongue.gif)
Mandrake 10.0 is kinda buggy, you're best off with 9.2 IMO.
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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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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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Shiver: 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. (http://smile.gif)
I can remember managing to write some NTFS files with Knoppix. It was buggy though.
However, I head the new kernel + Mandrake 10 can write NTFS FS's. I never tried that out though.
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Originally posted by nelson391:
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.
ACTUALLY ITS NOT COCKINESS as U put it!
I AM TOTALLY SICK TO DEATH OF THE CRAP COMING OUT OF MICROSOFT!
Unfortunately the poor suckers using windows don't even realise that there are better alternatives to windows from companies who actually care about their customers. And that these other companies don't palm off beta versions as finished software or use their customers as some sort of milking machine for money.
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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.
First off, don't bother selling it. You won't get enough out of a peecee to justify it. Keep it! I can't stress to you enough how good it is to have PC around to run Linux, or OPENSTEP... or GenSTEP :-D
This will solve that problem.
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And that these other companies don't palm off beta versions as finished software or use their customers as some sort of milking machine for money.
Mac OS X 10.0
'Nuff said.
Red Hat 5
It seemed pretty busted, IMHO. They changed quite a bit in that release and it took some time before stuff got compatible again.
Nearly everybody has their bad releases. Win98 and WinMe were shitball. 95 wasn't that bad. NT 4 was solid as a rock, as is 2K and XP. Just keep em updated, which is true of any OS.
[ April 04, 2004: Message edited by: JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder ]
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^ NT4 is the shakiest of the NT series, actually. And, I had 95 crash a few times yesterday by deleting a large number of files. :mad: