-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Creating my own sweeper- (Some techie questions...) P.S.

PS:
   
  If when you are done cleaning and on a fresh reboot with out opening but 
Windows Explorer to chck the following and you discover that:
   
  Your hostory Folder contains 1 folder (History.IE5) and one file (Index.dat) 
and is a total of 16 KB
  and
  Your Temporary Internet Files Folder contains 1 file (Content.IE5) and 1 file 
(Index.dat) and is a total of 32KB
  and
  Your Cookies Folder contains 0 Folders and 1 file (Index.dat) and is a total 
of 16 KB 
   
  You will know that those files have been purged, again if yo do not rewrite 
them that information may still be retrieveable by someone who knows what he is 
doing plane deleation does not destroy them.
   
   
"Robert Andrew Dulaney Jr." <rdulaneyjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  If one deletes the History folder, Tempary Internet Files Folder and Cookies 
Folder they will rewrite themselves at start-up. However thsea folders hold dat 
files that must be deleted after windows shuts down and before windows starts 
up as these files are protected while windows is in use. A simple registery 
entry will do that for you. If you are looking to just delete files any 
"layman" can see windows can do that for you but it will not destroy them. if 
you are looking to completely destroy all "evidence" you will need to rewrite 
and deleted files. Or there are MANY free programs out there that will do that 
for you such as Steve Gould's CleanUP located at
http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/

                
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