wow.... SHOCKED

I was very shocked to find :

http://www.microsuck.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml

i knew that these files existed but i didnt think that they would be so obvious!!

if you wanted to bribe someone then thats the way to do it!!!!


Worried!! Why didnt Microsoft explain this?

Marc

huh...interesting.

I guess though, the only reason to really search these out would be
1.) At work, to make sure the nerds in your IT dept have no blackmail ammo against you.
2.)If you reeeeeally had something to hide.
3.)If you really believed that these cause adware (which they might) then it would make sense ot delete them.

Also, as it seems people are becoming ever more paranoid, it may be a good idea to delete this information from time to time, just to cover your own ass.

I wonder if that info still applies to XP... It was written for 98...

I wonder if that info still applies to XP

Yeah, me too...and I'm too lazy to boot into DOS (is it even an option in XP?) to see. I have nothing to hide anyways. :p

I have nothing to hide anyways

Sure you dont........ hihi... just messing

I don't care, I've got nothing to hide.

Besides, people that DO have something to hide and possess the brains to actually do it wouldn't be using IE and Outlook anyway.

how can it store everything and not register as space occupied?

I mean - every temp file - forever....I don't buy that...in a month or so I gather about 100 megs of thrash... from surfing only - so in a year I'd have like 1.2 gigs of space occupied on my drive - plus temp files for photoshop and illustrator and how about the hundreds of megs monthly I get in my mail???? and all that data wouldn't show up as used on my harddrive.... if they manage to compress that good - I wanna know how - to use it

people that DO have something to hide and possess the brains to actually do it wouldn't be using IE and Outlook anyway.

They probably reformat quite frequently too.

[QUOTE=PaavoPerkele]Yeah, me too...and I'm too lazy to boot into DOS (is it even an option in XP?) to see. I have nothing to hide anyways. :p[/QUOTE]
XP has a limited DOS interface. Before XP, all the previous MS OSs were merely GUIs for DOS, XP is the first true, new operating system. Everything before XP has full DOS, but XPs is very limited.

The files are not hidden on XP. They lie within your profile settings. You cannot delete the files while logged in as yourself since the files are in use. If you want to delete them you will either need a DOS boot disk and do it the old-fashioned way, or simply log on as another user with "Local Administrator" priviledges and delete them. I didn't know what they were until today.

I'll keep track of the file size and see if it grows.