re: Desktop.ini Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 11:43 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by czyxzy (594 messages posted) If you manage to delete Desktop.ini, Windows will recreate it. It contains all sorts of informaton about you and how you use the computer. That can take a lot of drive space, annoys me, and is unnecessary to the proper operation of the computer, at least as far as I can tell. There is a trick you can use. If you can get unfettered access to a Desktop.ini file... possibly using CMD/RUN... you can delete everything in one of these files except the header... a string of digits and letters. This fools XP into thinking the file exists and it won't try to reconstruct it. The advantage is that nothing is added to the file. On Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 8:29 am, BWCorvus wrote: > I use xp home edtion, and i ONLY use list veiw to look at folders. Is it safe >to delete desktop.ini files, or must they stay? > > >Thanks Written in response to: Desktop.ini (BWCorvus: Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 8:29 am) Responses to this message: re: Desktop.ini (BWCorvus: Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 2:57 pm) re: Desktop.ini (Adam Bradley: Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 7:29 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Desktop.ini (BWCorvus: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 8:29 am) re: Desktop.ini (triplate: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 9:14 am) re: Desktop.ini (czyxzy: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 11:43 am) re: Desktop.ini (BWCorvus: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 2:57 pm) re: Desktop.ini (Adam Bradley: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 7:29 pm) re: Desktop.ini (BWCorvus: Wed, Dec 11, 2002, 4:12 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum