re: Desktop.ini Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 2:57 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by BWCorvus (70 messages posted) Alright there were 74 desktop.ini files on my cdrive alone, i deleted them all, rebooted, and now i have 4(it recreated). So i would say out of 74, 70 was junk. Gotto luv m$ On Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 11:43 am, Zeb wrote: >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. > > > > Written in response to: re: Desktop.ini (czyxzy: Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 11:43 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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