re: Desktop.ini Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 7:29 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Bradley (7823 messages posted) Desktop.ini contains only folder settings you may be thinking of index.dat regards, Adam Bradley 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) Responses to this message: re: Desktop.ini (BWCorvus: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 at 4:12 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