[Thinkpad] Re: OT: W2K drive space disappearing: could be Internet Explorer?

> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of David Ross
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 3:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] OT: W2K drive space disappearing: need help
>
>
>>\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\DEFAULT\LOCAL SETTINGS\APPLICATIONS
>>which are 8-character alphanumeric filenames and various extensions
>>of types DBF, CDX, FPT, PH1.
>>
>>What do these do and can they be deleted?

David
Are you using Internet Explorer or have you deleted it?
IE is rumored to make copies of your cache and history and hide them on
the disk.
I'm not clever enough to look for these files (can DOS read FAT32?) but
it's another reason I avoid IE. When your C: drive is 800 Mb you can't
afford to give up any of it.
More details at <http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml>
The guy's definitely paranoid but that doesn't mean he's not right.
Perhaps someone with a Windows/Linux system could check for these
alleged files. I'd like to know if I'm being overly suspicious....

-- 
Andrew in Ann Arbor
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