Hi Hugh. The dir /a showed all folders and files. Thanks. In Windows Explorer I checked the folders and found them to be set to read only....
Yup, that did it, thanks. :)
Hi all. Yesterday my daughter and her friend were using my computer to do a school project. I don't know what they did or how, they say they don't...
Hi Hugh. I did a DIR of C:\Documents and Settings\Dopey. I then opened the folder I DIRed and compared. DIR showed 7 folders and 2 files. The...
@ECHO OFF for %%f in (C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER\LOCALS~1\HISTORY\*.*) do attrib -r -s -h -a %%f for %%f in (C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER\LOCALS~1\HISTORY\*.*) do...
Thanks Mark. :)
Ok but will changiing the attribs cause any folders to be deleted, such as cookies, that wouldn't be rebuilt automatically? Thanks.
Hi Mark So the line should then read as: for %%f in (COOKIES HISTORY TEMP TEMPOR~1 MYRECE~1 ) do attrib -r -s -h -a...
@echo off del /s /y "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\History\*.* " del /s /y "C:\Documents and Settings\Default...
Hi all, thanks for the responses. Steve - Thanks, I forgot about the *.*. My batch worked so well in 98 I never had to edit and thus forgot how...
Using XP Home on a HP Pavilion @echo off del /y "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\History " del /y "C:\Documents and...
Thanks Zander.
There is this object on my toolbar that hides the programs that are running. I have to click on it to see what is there. Does anyone know how I...
Try booting to safe mode and delete them there.
Sorry Reboot my mind was ahead of my fingers..:( I'm planning to get a copy of an xp disk from my brother this weekend. Using my product key...
Been busy. I was using the mb setting instead of the percent setting. I made one partition of 9gb to see if I could get xp installed. Run the...
Got my tail in a sling here. Fdisk only sees 10.8GB. I need it to see 80. Is there another utility to do this? Or another fdisk or something?...
Hey Reboot, no offence taken. :) Thanks for the explaination. Once I do this I'll be ok, just a little nervous. I'll post back tomorrow to let...
I agree and I plan to. Thanks. "System Destroy" - Yeah, thats the proper name.:)
I am confused, although not intentionally. :) I only know the basics of fdisk. No partitioning experience at all. Will fdisk give me the...
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