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Nice post
Yeah i agree it's nice post.
I already use SYSTEM MECHANIC for almost 4 years to counter this problem!
iolo.com is the place to find it!
thx bimmer.
Yeah somthing like this should be put up on the download section for tutorials and articles that way people can go check that out. Very old news to me. Somthing like this needs to be posted up occasionally so people who have no idea about this could learn about it.
Good Update
useful.
Another .dat file that this list does not include is the user.dat file. This file contains every program you have ever run, movies viewed and other various things but if deleted it will delete all of your settings also. I only know if this is true on win95 because I found it myself after viewing that very same article a couple of months ago. It can be found under profiles. ex. c:\windows\profiles\blah\user.dat. It can only be found in dos. You can find it by doing a simple dir/ah. It can also be found in the windows directory. ex. c:\windows\user.dat.
Shangrila, User.dat and system.dat are the files that registry information is stored in... They're hardly secret :P But you can't open them in notepad given their binary-based structure, gotta use regedit/etc.
Just create a temporary ftp server on your box (g6 works well) then navigate to any folder. One of the files will be desktop.ini because IE security doesnt work via the ftp protocol. This is the file that be being referenced in the article.