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Originally Posted by randolph
If you are using Mozilla Firefox (you should be). It is easy to set up controls of internet files. I clear all files and cookies each time I turn off. They can be held for a period of time or cleared each time you turn off Firefox. Internet explorer has similar features but they are not quite as easy to find and set up.
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Randolph,
In windows explorer, even if you delete all files from history, cookies and
temporary internet files, windows keep a record of all the sites you have been to in files called index.dat. You feel happy and safe after clearing the cache but everything is still there, its a false sense of security. What must be done is to erase the index.dat files. But windows wont allow them to be deleted.
So what do you do? You restart and enter your hard drive in DOS mode (where there is no windows to boss around). Now everything can be deleted in a slow motion, command typing manner. After you kill those nasty fat index.dat files, you reboot. Windows will create new empty index.dat files again. No problemo!
Jenae, I was expecting some geeky soln. from you, not a 3rd party software like privacy-mantra. But
Thanks, the
codeode site describes the DOS method. OK, you helped.
That brings us to
Question #4#
Is it possible to dual boot into an only Dos environment without windows? Say, there would only be qbasic or C if I may choose so, but no windows. I remember something like reconfiguring Autoexec.bat... but I have lost the code.