is this for real?!?!? Microsoft keeping hidden folders in your computer???

[velvta]

i was wondering exactly how much of this is truth?

http://www.****microsoft.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml#2 (http://)

the **** part is actually the f word, please replace those **** with the f word.

[MADD Hatter]

Yeah
that's true, but it isn't really a secret. The temp folder is just a place where windows keeps files while processing them and usually it will delete the files after, but sometimes it doesn't. The swap file is like virtual ram. When your ram gets full, microsoft uses the swap file to store data that is frequently called. As more information goes into teh swap file, the old stuff goes out. You can disable your swapfile but it isnt a good idea. The rest is just Internet Explorer cookies. Cookies are placed there by sites and can also be disabled, while history is a log that is kept by IE that should be deleted every so often.

I have heard rumours that there are things that windows logs that we can't see but i'm not sure if they are true.

[SannieRose]

Like, what's Microsoft going to do with the billions of files they're supposedly hiding :confused:


Meanwhile, at Microsoft Central Hidden Files Processing Center:
Bill Gates: Lessee now, here's Norms' files. Ah, he visited Speedguide.net 1,109 times in the last quarter. Mr. X?
Mr. X: Yes sir?
Bill Gates: Good work! Run these files over to the Dept. of Defense. I think they'll be interested in this!!
:D :rotfl: :rolleyes:

[SannieRose]

*SannieRose goes into stealth mode to avoid detection by Norm, Microsoft or any other entity* :D :2cool:

[Doggabone]

All true, all totally harmless, all a major pain if you (like me) want to TELL THE SYSTEM what to do and not BE TOLD ;). The articles incipient paranoia is funny, but I know EXACTLY how he feels hehe.

Was especially annoying for a while when I was doing web design and previewing in IE 5. With all the "check every time" and deleting cache, history, etc options clicked in windows, we would see the same page over and over again. Even when we had deleted it off of the server. I think they finally fixed it in IE 5.5, though. But that was when I learned to delete all those files in DOS, and wrote a batch file to do it every time I rebooted.

And if I say Show All Files, the dang system SHOULD do it :D.