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Desktop.ini questions - related to slow performance?
This article
http://technology.januario.com/2004/...orer-slow.html says that slow performance in Windows Explorer can be caused by the Desktop.ini file in My Documents folder. He suggests creating a new Desktop.ini file in another directory, editing it so contents are blank, and then using that to replace the one in My Documents. He suggests doing the same to Desktop.ini file in other folders such as Favorites, to improve their performance. 1. Is this the "approved" technique? 2. I find that when I first launch Win98SE, it performs well and I can use Windows Explorer easily. Later in the day Windows Explorer becomes painfully slow: slow to open folders, slow to delete, etc. Is this because of Desktop.ini? 3. I don't use My Documents, due to the Win98 issue. I create a different folder for all my documents: Stuff. However, I then edit the properties of the My Documents icon on the desktop so that it points to Stuff instead. That then causes Stuff to display the special My Documents icon when viewing in Windows Explorer. Has using that My Documents shortcut defeated what I was trying to achieve, and instead just made Stuff into a renamed My Documents with all the usual performance limitations of My Documents? 4. Do Desktop.ini files slow things down? What's the advice for dealing with them, and for these Windows exploring/viewing slowdowns? |
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Tuttle wrote:
4. Do Desktop.ini files slow things down? Mine sure don't. Why don't you read one of yours and judge for yourself? -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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I "find" 93 desktop.ini files in my four partition in my
98se/ xp dual boot. How are these created? How to stop them from getting recreated? Should I delete them all, instead of replacing them with blank files? -- Rawat On 3/16/05 7:38 PM India Time, _Tuttle_ wrote: This article http://technology.januario.com/2004/...orer-slow.html says that slow performance in Windows Explorer can be caused by the Desktop.ini file in My Documents folder. He suggests creating a new Desktop.ini file in another directory, editing it so contents are blank, and then using that to replace the one in My Documents. He suggests doing the same to Desktop.ini file in other folders such as Favorites, to improve their performance. 1. Is this the "approved" technique? 2. I find that when I first launch Win98SE, it performs well and I can use Windows Explorer easily. Later in the day Windows Explorer becomes painfully slow: slow to open folders, slow to delete, etc. Is this because of Desktop.ini? 3. I don't use My Documents, due to the Win98 issue. I create a different folder for all my documents: Stuff. However, I then edit the properties of the My Documents icon on the desktop so that it points to Stuff instead. That then causes Stuff to display the special My Documents icon when viewing in Windows Explorer. Has using that My Documents shortcut defeated what I was trying to achieve, and instead just made Stuff into a renamed My Documents with all the usual performance limitations of My Documents? 4. Do Desktop.ini files slow things down? What's the advice for dealing with them, and for these Windows exploring/viewing slowdowns? |
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V S Rawat wrote:
I "find" 93 desktop.ini files in my four partition in my 98se/ xp dual boot. How are these created? Windows makes them ____________ How to stop them from getting recreated? You don't want to. _____________ Should I delete them all, instead of replacing them with blank files? Don't do either, leave them alone. They define system info about the folder they are in. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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On 3/17/05 1:22 AM India Time, _dadiOH_ wrote:
V S Rawat wrote: I "find" 93 desktop.ini files in my four partition in my 98se/ xp dual boot. How are these created? Windows makes them Thanks. But what setting of windows makes them? I have selected "DON'T remember setting of each folder" in windows explorer. I had thought that it should prevent creation of desktop.ini. Seems that is not so. I am not comfortable with my system doing anything on its own. 98 files. My god. -- Rawat ____________ How to stop them from getting recreated? You don't want to. _____________ Should I delete them all, instead of replacing them with blank files? Don't do either, leave them alone. They define system info about the folder they are in. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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Here are two articles dug up by Glee from another thread.
Customizing a Folder's Web View: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...asp?frame=true Customizing Folders with Desktop.ini http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ing/custom.asp And here is all I know about it, until I go study those articles myself. Acc. to "Windows 98 Secrets" (Livingston/Straub), p. 172, a Desktop.ini is a system file created when you "View, Customize" a folder, possibly along with a modified copy of folder.htt (HTML template). Click one and it will open in Notepad; they are not all the same inside. Supposedly, the ini & the htt will be deleted when you remove the customization; that doesn't quite appear to be true, but the ini is cleared of most data. I appear to have 23 Desktop.ini's currently, as "Find, F&F, Desktop.ini" shows. As far as the htt, I never did see one inside a folder, using Explorer. I saw 17 of them BOTH before and after removing a customization, however, using "Find, F&F, *.htt". (Update: I see those htt's after setting: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Adv anced ShowSuperHidden 0x00000001 (1) --DWORD: 1.) Acc. to "Windows 98 Secrets" (Livingston/Straub), p. 199, special folders can also contain a Desktop.ini which "may have a reference to a dynamic link library (dll) file that defines a specific set of behaviors for the folder". There are other ways to create them, and they are sometimes involved in copy protection schemes. Also third party programs, such as http://www.pcmag.com/ 's Folders creates or modifies them to store pointers to the folder icons. I have such pointers in some desktop.ini's, although I never did install "Folders". -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "V S Rawat" wrote in message ... | On 3/17/05 1:22 AM India Time, _dadiOH_ wrote: | | V S Rawat wrote: | | I "find" 93 desktop.ini files in my four partition in my | 98se/ xp dual boot. | | How are these created? | | | Windows makes them | | Thanks. But what setting of windows makes them? | | I have selected "DON'T remember setting of each folder" in | windows explorer. I had thought that it should prevent | creation of desktop.ini. | | Seems that is not so. | | I am not comfortable with my system doing anything on its own. | | 98 files. My god. | | -- | Rawat | | | ____________ | | | How to stop them from getting recreated? | | | You don't want to. | _____________ | | | Should I delete them all, instead of replacing them with | blank files? | | | Don't do either, leave them alone. They define system info about the | folder they are in. | | -- | dadiOH | ____________________________ | | dadiOH's dandies v3.06... | ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from | LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. | Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico | | | |
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PCR wrote:
Acc. to "Windows 98 Secrets" (Livingston/Straub), p. 199, special folders can also contain a Desktop.ini which "may have a reference to a dynamic link library (dll) file that defines a specific set of behaviors for the folder". Yes indeed! -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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V S Rawat wrote:
On 3/17/05 1:22 AM India Time, _dadiOH_ wrote: V S Rawat wrote: I "find" 93 desktop.ini files in my four partition in my 98se/ xp dual boot. How are these created? Windows makes them Thanks. But what setting of windows makes them? No setting (AFAIK), they are created as needed _________________ I am not comfortable with my system doing anything on its own. Get real. Your system does virtually *everything* on its own and it's a damn good thing it does or there would be precious few computer users. About the only thing most people can do is modify that behaviour with some predetermined option...an option integral to the system. _______________ 98 files. My god. You are obsessing over a tiny number of small, useful files? Reality check... 1. Start explorer 2. Select C: 3. Click in right pane 4. Ctrl+A 5. Right click on the selected files/folders 6. Properties Now, is 98 files such a big deal in the grander scheme of things? -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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Thanks PCR.
I have decided not to delete these files. If someone can assure us that these can be deleted without causing any harm, pl. do share. -- Rawat On 3/17/05 1:25 PM India Time, _PCR_ wrote: Here are two articles dug up by Glee from another thread. Customizing a Folder's Web View: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...asp?frame=true Customizing Folders with Desktop.ini http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ing/custom.asp And here is all I know about it, until I go study those articles myself. Acc. to "Windows 98 Secrets" (Livingston/Straub), p. 172, a Desktop.ini is a system file created when you "View, Customize" a folder, possibly along with a modified copy of folder.htt (HTML template). Click one and it will open in Notepad; they are not all the same inside. Supposedly, the ini & the htt will be deleted when you remove the customization; that doesn't quite appear to be true, but the ini is cleared of most data. I appear to have 23 Desktop.ini's currently, as "Find, F&F, Desktop.ini" shows. As far as the htt, I never did see one inside a folder, using Explorer. I saw 17 of them BOTH before and after removing a customization, however, using "Find, F&F, *.htt". (Update: I see those htt's after setting: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Adv anced ShowSuperHidden 0x00000001 (1) --DWORD: 1.) Acc. to "Windows 98 Secrets" (Livingston/Straub), p. 199, special folders can also contain a Desktop.ini which "may have a reference to a dynamic link library (dll) file that defines a specific set of behaviors for the folder". There are other ways to create them, and they are sometimes involved in copy protection schemes. Also third party programs, such as http://www.pcmag.com/ 's Folders creates or modifies them to store pointers to the folder icons. I have such pointers in some desktop.ini's, although I never did install "Folders". |
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Certainly not compared to my several million files, g.
-- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "dadiOH" wrote in message ... Now, is 98 files such a big deal in the grander scheme of things? |
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