Fun with pewters part too...

There I was, playing with a proggy you can set to automatically delete all those various temp files, etc that accumulate....set it to do so.....and realised something was just a wee bit awry when I had the pleasure of watching all the desktop icons disappear.

Clicking on the start button usually revealed  a few columns of installed 'stuff', but lo and behold I had but three....Games, Accessories and some other one....and they, too were empty.

What joy......

 

Goodie, I thought......now THAT was clever.

Start-run got me to Powerdesk where I could peruse the damage and yes, everything in the 'Documents and Settings' was there no more.

Sure, the odd folder remained....but data, info and links were, to put it simple, ex, as in no-more, as in shuffled off this mortal coil.

Of course, the good old PST file was carefully excised, as was the Exploder favourites, and other choice nibblies....

Must admit, though.....sure did clear out the temp files....albeit with extreme prejudice....

My next clever move will be to Format C:

I'm sure that'll do less damage to my well-being.

 

Must be sympathy pains for Stardock's drive crash....

 

/me DOES call himself a 'power user'......but clearly that is some OTHER interpretation of 'power user' that may be a tad more 'obscure'....

Ain't computers fun?.....

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.... ...I'm sorry, I shouldn't have laughed.......



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Ain't computers fun?.....


not when they misbehave.
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At least it "pewters" this time
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...the third time will be a charm...'poopers' me thinks!!



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Jafo's new 'Helper' tool......







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You'd think a tmp/bak/$$$/....etc.....filter would just remove those.....and not *.* as a default.

Well....

I'D think that, anyway...

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Ouch that's painful. It reminds me of a trick program I made that wouldn't go away, but when I rebooted, windows kept trying to kill it, and it started another copy.

I made it so well that I had to spend like a hour trying to kill my program permently.

I still has source code, but I won't be compling it anytime soon.
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Paul...that program was probably made in America....we like to nuke everything..!!!
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Jafo DOES call himself a 'power user'......but clearly that is some OTHER interpretation of 'power user' that may be a tad more 'obscure'....


Maybe a little heavy on the 'power'? At least on that program!
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What program was it Jafo?....I'd really like to avoid it.



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.....Remind you of anyone perhaps Mr. Jafo??





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EmptyTemp2 was the name, I think...needless to say it's no longer installed.....[who could tell anyway since it deleted the links]?....
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, ok so some programs should have that teeth clenching "ARE YOU SURE" popup I guess
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Oh...it had that......

What it needed was a...

"You don't want to do that, Dave...."...

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yeah I had a registry cleaner do something along those lines. It was supposed to clean out all un-used links and registry keys, repair all broken links and locate all orphin links/files, un-install information and such....

Damn well did clean the registry, yep...



the worst part was, that it saved a back up of the registry, right? well it was a back up of the registry after it cleaned house, so when I rebooted and it didn't find the registry, and it rebuilt it from the last known good back up, it was the trashed one the program had just created

My luck was in that I had a Ghost Image of the basic install with all applications, so I could do a quick restore without any loss of data.