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Old November 28th 17, 08:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:39:31 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

I was being respectful toward frequent contributor "Paul", who has
related his experience that just looking around caused one of his
systems to be unbootable into Windows, unless I'm misunderstanding what
he said. But yes, at least in my case, just looking around has never
caused me any issues.

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I have a small Hex Editor that will read anything. As long as I ONLY
READ it, nothing gets screwed up. Most of the time binary files are not
readable anyhow, but the header will contain some regular text, showing
me that the file is a .jpg image or a .exe file, etc...

I often use that to open something in my browser cache. Those cache
files have no extensions, and maybe I want to save an image that a
website wont allow downloading. Using the hex editor, I can see if a
file is an image type. If it is, I can rename it with the extension and
view it. The file sizes usually tell me if the cache item is htm (text)
or more likely an image or sound file, etc...

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