Hidden personal info in Windows

[Vincent]

seer wrote:
Not sure about Win ME, but these files do show up in Win XP when you sellect "Show hidden files and folders" and deselect "hide protected operating system files".. Usually delete these files before a defrag (No need to defrag temp files.. )

Good to read about this again and some of the other stuff in it.

Actually, they only do that when you're logged on as the first user-created-account.

We've got 3 accounts on this pc and we had to go throught the Content.ie5 crap to show them for the other users.

[Vincent]

Viking wrote:
Nope, they don't show even if you turn on "show hidden...". Not THESE files. They can not be accessed or deleted by Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer. The only way is by DOS, if you know exactly where they are. You can't even find them by executing the "DIR" command... :inquisitive:

Actually, with XP (at least SP1) you can access them through explorer if you know what the dirs are called.  You just type them in the address bar as usual.

Or, without knowing what the dirs are called, go into DOS, go to the Temporary Internet Files dir and type Edit Desktop.ini  Change it so it only has one line:

[.ShellClassInfo]

Then log off and on again - sometimes this isn't needed, the change is immediately done.  And that's it.  You don't need to know the dir names and you only need to edit one desktop.ini, the ones in the dirs below don't really matter.

You can do exactly the same for the other profiles and the History dir aswell.