Microsoft's Really Hidden Files

worth reading ...

SUMMARY:

There are folders on your computer that Microsoft has tried hard to keep secret.

Source : http://www.****microsoft.com/content...en-files.shtml
by the Riddler
e-mail: ther1ddler@****Microsoft.com

thanks for the link man. i already knew about most of that by finding the iecontent folders on accident once so i continued to dig through my windows system, but there were a few things i that article i did not know. definitely something everyone that uses windows should be aware of.

man, just go to the link a read .....

a hell of hidden files....

Good post bimmer......

M$ prove day by day that they are á$$ hÕLÈs ....

These were all well documented and can be found with a basic ftp exploration or http exploration of the given drive. Through those protocols the desktop.ini file is ignored and can actually be edited and downloaded.

I also knew about some of those-a friend and I (which does not post here) are digging through some of 98's and 2000 pro's files looking at them....we have a couple different conspiracy theories about the different distros...when I get some more time, I'll talk about what we've found.....

Nurv, could you tell me how to do what you were talking about?

Great link always nice to learn something new.

Not surprised... once again M$ has been caught with there hand in the cookie jar.

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.