On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:23:14 +0000, walter hynebottom
<walter@homebody.not.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:07:22 +0000, walter hynebottom
>><walter@homebody.not.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>
>
>//
>>>>It even is possible to get rid of all the other files you mention at once by
>>>>adding them in the command line file.
>>>
>>>Try the tip from holita, much simpler as it is.
>>>holita wrote:
>>>"go to start, search, files & folders, all files & folders.
>>>
>>>enter .db in the first box, which asks for the name of the file
>>>
>>>under "look in", use right arrow, click on "browse" to go to the
>>>folder where your designs are.
>>>
>>>click on "search". when search is done, from edit, "select all" &
>>>delete them
>>>
>>Ok do you see the amount of operations in this?
>>
>Do you see, consider even, the learning curve required
>to arrive at the alternative you suggest?
>The OP wants to remove some annoyances not create them.
>
Yes you are right, it is a very steep learning curve to open Notpad the type 2
simple lines of text and then go to File and choose Save As from the menu and
save the file as Thumbs.bat or Thumbs.cmd
us.
Forgive my stupidety i have no clue what came into my head when i saw the
request.
>
>//
>>Also PDF files can contain a virus so at the end i think those files will be all
>>PNG files and i think not everybody is able to open them
>>>
>Active links and scripting is required to be embedded by the builder
>of a PDF file. Therefore there exists the lowest probability sewers,
>together with a great many computer users. would be equipped to
>succeed at building virus enabled PDF.
>MHT can be put together from a few links, on the desktop.
>
>>>>I love those good old DOS commands and because Windows is still a shell around a
>>>>DOS environment you still can use those good old DOS commands.
>>>>
>>>???????
>>>"emulated DOS environment" is what I read.
>>>"emulated" is smooth talk for "crippled and handicapped".
>>
>>Emulated? as long as a Os has io.sys, msdos.sys, a command.com in the
>>windows\system32 folder and config.sys and autoexec.dos or autoexec.bat windows
>>is no more than a dos based operating system.
>>So nothing is emulated.
>>
>http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=DOS&i=41709,00.asp
>(extract)
>Definition of: DOS
>
>(1) (Disk Operating System) Pronounced "dahss." An earlier single-user
>operating system from Microsoft for the PC. It was the first operating
>system for IBM and IBM-compatible PCs and remained the underlying
>control program for Windows 3.1, 95, 98 and ME. In order to support
>DOS applications, Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista include their own
>version of DOS, called "DOS emulation."
>
>Although DOS in the IBM PC was called "PC-DOS," and the DOS used by
>all other vendors was called "MS-DOS," all releases of PC-DOS and
>MS-DOS were generally referred to as "DOS." Except for DOS 6, which
>contained different versions of various utilities, PC-DOS and MS-DOS
>commands and system functions were the same. A great number of DOS
>commands have been executable in all versions of Windows. See DOS
>abc's.
>
>>I would like to lift one quote from the weblink you provided namely this:
>>
>Somehow on this section of the information superhighway you have taken
>a wrong turn. Be very clear I do not disagree with your general
>direction in using command line tools.
>The assistance holita has posted is appropriate for this group. Your
>suggestion would create more of a problem for a user than it solves.
>
>It is folly to darn hemp with silk thread.
>
>//
>>>>Thanks for your input, i hope people will read this all and use it when they
>>>>pack a folder and post files in here.
>>>Yes.
>>Any way this topic is drifting more and more to a point where it should be
>>discussed in a other forum like a.b.os
>
>I am not familiar with that forum. True to say, levels of computing
>skill you wish to discuss are best discussed in forums where the
>majority know the topic. Possibly it is fortunate for you I read your
>post, for you to gain any feedback in this group.
>You might benefit from reading the FAQ I saw posted, to be better
>informed on the environment you are posting into.
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