Cleaning Computer Drive.

[VicMallows]

Have just spent the afternoon doing some serious cleaning of the hard-drive. All went well until time came to post to our favourite forum! Oh No! I'll have to invent a new userid (it's happened before) and be relegated to 'new-user' status. However, it seemed to just need a fresh loggin (not usually necessary). (no. I havn't consciously deleted any cookies). .... phew! (let's hope!).

Vic

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[BrendanS]

You can still login even if you've deleted cookie (sometimes in fact it's a good idea to delete the cookie if you are having certain forum problems - like posts still being shown as new when you've read them) as it wil just put a new cookie on your computer

You probably miskeyed either username or password the first time

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[VicMallows]

Hi Brendan,

Yes, it does seem the cookies all went somewhere along the line.. fortunately only had a few that mattered.

Now, if anyone knows why I ever needed

C:\IBMTOOLS\APPS\PREWALL\LAYOUT.BIN

i'd be most greatful. Have searched the IBM support sites without success. (lack of it) simply caused a 112 error message on start-up. Have turned off PREWALL in start up menu and no apparent ill effect. Wallpaper still as normal.

Vic



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[ubuysa]

I never cease to be amazed at the way in which otherwise intelligent people cheerfully hack away at their computer data without taking the basic precaution of backing it up first. You wouldn't go up your mast without a second safety line attached (I hope) but you'll hapilly do some "serious cleaning of your hard drive" without backing it up /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif





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[ongolo]

Nah it just depends on what lousy operating system is one using. Windows is the biggest rubbish and in the end never reliable.

In a proper operating system every user could understand what each file and programm is doing.

Ah yes, there are 32 kinds of people, those who understand ascii and those who dont.

ongolo

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[AuntyRinum]

"fortunately only had a few that mattered".


None of your cookies matter, they renew every time you visit a site.

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[AuntyRinum]

"Ah yes, there are 32 kinds of people, those who understand ascii and those who dont."

ascii? Anyone who can read English can understand ascii. Are the other 31 Spanish, Chinese etc? Although thinking about it, I suppose if you're a non English speaker your ascii is in your own language.


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[charles_reed]

Which suggests

your stuck using that Dirty Operating System.

Even Mac have seen the light and OSX is Linux based

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[VicMallows]

Yes, but a pain when logging into YBW several times a day, etc. Anyway, have found the culprit: updated version (3.0) of McAfee Quickclean just loaded. By default it now deletes ALL temp files (cookies included) every time Explorer restarts. Have changed the default and all now back to normal, though still investigating why it was running unasked-for in the first place.

Vic

<hr width=100% size=1><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by VicMallows on 17/03/2004 14:11 (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[AuntyRinum]

Re: Which suggests

It's moved on a bit since DOS

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