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re: Desktop.ini Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 9:14 am Posted by triplate (4621 messages posted) Leave them alone......:) 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Desktop.ini Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 11:43 am 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Desktop.ini Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 2:57 pm 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. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Desktop.ini Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 7:29 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (7821 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. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Desktop.ini Wednesday, December 11, 2002 at 4:12 pm Posted by BWCorvus (70 messages posted) Guess they dont matter then!!!! On Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 7:29 pm, Adam Bradley wrote: >Desktop.ini contains only folder settings you may be thinking of index.dat regards, >Adam Bradley > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum