[Thinkpad] Re: OT: W2K drive space disappearing: need help, correction (should be Jeffrey)

>>-----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....
>

Just received a note pointing out that Jeffrey asked the original
question not David.
It's confusing replying to digests....

-- 
Andrew (confused) in Ann Arbor
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