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Old November 27th 17, 06:19 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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Default hiding extensions by default

On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 21:10:10 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 20:34:26 -0600, wrote:

On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 20:24:23 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:11:47 -0600,
wrote:

I always thought that hiding extensions was stupid too. But I do wish MS
would allow hiding by filename. Those goddamn "System Volume
Information" files annoy the f**k out of me and appear on every
partition, every flash drive, and where ever else MS can shove them. I
DO NOT use that drive wasting crap anyhow, and have it disabled
everywhere.

Windows uses SVI, so if you use Windows you're probably (indirectly)
using SVI.

But I still got to see that clutter on everything.....
Since it's disabled, I'd think they would either not create them, or at
least give us a way to hide them. Hiding the Recycle Bin would be useful
too. Again, I dont use it. When I delete something, I want it GONE....

By default, the SVI folders are not visible, so you've chosen to see
them.


I know I can disable ALL system files, but I do want to see most of them
when I am inside the Windows folder. But I dont want to see these SVI
files almost everywhere. If you know of a way to hide them, please tell
me how.

The SVI folders are all empty.


How are you verifying that? Windows Explorer isn't going to help, but
you can use a few other methods. I use Treesize Free to explore in
there, but Linux should also work. Be careful, though, some folks report
that their PC will no longer boot after mucking around in there.

Anyway, even if you disable System Restore, I've never seen an empty SVI
Folder. There's always at least a couple of things in there.

Thats because I disabled SVI.


I'm not sure what that means. What steps did you take?

But if I
right click on a SVI and choose properties, they are empty.


Right, Windows Explorer is trained to hide the SVI contents.


Maybe there is somethimg inside of them. My win98 comp will delete them
from flash drives. I can do a USB boot to linux on one of my XP machines
(not on my laptop though, since that dont support booting from USB). I
can and have removed all the SVI files from a linux boot, but they just
come right back when I boot to XP again.

I dont remember how I disabled SVI. I do all that tweaking one thing at
a time and the next time I do a new install of XP I cant remember how I
did stuff. Not long ago, I started a text file with notes to do stuff
like that. I may cut some text from this newsgroup, or some website, or
just type in what to do, to fix some XP annoyance. I should have started
doing that years ago, but I didn't. All I know there is a way inside the
controls to shut off SVI. Or maybe I used Tweak-UI.... or some other
tweaking software for XP....

What I do know,s is that a new install of XP needs a lot of tweaking and
modifying to get rid of the annoyances and to make it run the way I
like. XP loves to collect garbage, like SVI crap, info about what I
click on, not to mention all the crap in the Recycle bin and browser
cache. Tweak-UI helps, but dont do it all. In Win98, I made a batchfile
to clear away all the garbage in one step, but thats not so easy in XP..
I suppose it gets worse in every newer version of Windows. It's no
wonder that some people reinstall their OS yearly. For every gb of
useful data, Microsoft adds 5gb of crap, that most people dont know how
to remove.



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