Desktop.ini questions - related to slow performance?

Right! So, as you said, BEST not to delete all of them!


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| PCR wrote:
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| Acc. to "Windows 98 Secrets" (Livingston/Straub), p. 199, special
| folders can also contain a Desktop.ini which "may have a reference =
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| a dynamic link library (dll) file that defines a specific set of
| behaviors for the folder".
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| Yes indeed!
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ABSOLUTELY, as dadiOH said, some of them are best KEPT. However, you may =
go through your folders & turn off customization in each one. That may =
do a lot, as 93 of them seems excessive.

WELL, did you install an app, like "Folders" that creates them to put =
individual Icons on your folders? THEN, better leave all of them alone, =
& maybe don't even do the following...

(1) Undo Active Desktop.

(a) R-Clk the Desktop, point to Active Desktop, & select Customize my
Desktop.
(b) Uncheck "View my Active Desktop as a WEB page" & Apply.

Is there anything in the box under that item? Those are WEB sites that
would appear on the Desktop. Delete them.

(c) At the Effects tab, uncheck "Hide icons when the Desktop is viewed
as a WEB page" & OK.
(d) R-Clk the Desktop, & uncheck "View as WEB page".

(2) "START, Settings, Folder Options, General tab". Set to "Classic
style". If all gets better, click "Custom...", & gingerly go back to how
you like it. But stay away from "Enable all Web related content...".


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Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
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"V S Rawat" wrote in message =
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| Thanks PCR.
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| I have decided not to delete these files. If someone can=20
| assure us that these can be deleted without causing any=20
| harm, pl. do share.
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| Rawat
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| On 3/17/05 1:25 PM India Time, _PCR_ wrote:
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| Here are two articles dug up by Glee from another thread.
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| Customizing a Folder's Web View:
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ll/programmer=
sguide/shell_int/shell_int_extending/webview.asp?frame=3Dtrue
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| Customizing Folders with Desktop.ini
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de.../en-us/shellc=
c/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/cus=
tom.asp
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| And here is all I know about it, until I go study those articles =
myself.
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| 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:
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Adv
| anced
| ShowSuperHidden 0x00000001 (1) --DWORD: 1.)
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| 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".
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| 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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