Vista system disk reveals the "Users" folder

From the smooth transition from XP to Windows Vista, every loyal friend of Windows will be very curious to watch and play with every inch of the new generation operating system Vista. She is like a newborn, full of fresh blood and a different place, but he is also like a mummy, always keeping the complete gene of the Windows family.

Today, let me take you into the mysterious system partition (C drive) under Vista. Let's talk about it, first talk about "C:\\Users\\".

"C:\\Users\\" looks at the file path and knows that this is the place where the user files and related program information are stored under the system file. This folder in Vista has many potential modifications over previous generations of systems, making the organization of user data more secure, more logical, and able to access user data through many places on the network. There is also a top-level Public folder that replaces the location of the "My Computer" shared folder in XP. The Public folder is where the local network shares resources. It provides public folders for favorites, documents, downloads, music, pictures, videos and recorded TV shows, which is a big change from Vista's previous generations. In "C:\\Users\\", Microsoft basically does not separate the area where the program is allowed to write data and the area where the program is stored. In doing so, it can effectively block malicious script files or hackers from creating malicious executable files.

These files are generally included by default in "C:\\Users\\username\\". Then let's talk about each folder.

The "Start Menu" stores the user's Start Menu - all programs display shortcut icons for programs that are not installed by default. They are hidden by default.

"AppData" and "Application Data" stores the temporary data of the user program. That is, the software and the setup files you have installed, including the shortcuts in the taskbar, some files of the input method, etc. According to your system. The content in this directory is different with different software. Therefore, in order to facilitate the system installation, we can back up the related items in the folder before installing the new system. For example, Application Data\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Quick Launch It is the file of the shortcut file on the right side. There are also some unnecessary buffer files. For example, Microsoft\\Office\\Recent can be deleted. The former will increase the volume of “AppData” as the system usage time increases. Big, the author is very big, there is 1.2G, the new user is about 20M. These two folders are very important, random In addition, it will cause many applications to be unusable. However, it can be cleaned and lost through a lot of garbage cleaning software. It is hidden by default.

"Cookies" Also called cookies, the browser stores folders in the computer. Cookies It is a data card that records the user's personal data, the data of the computer system used, and the web pages visited by the user in the hard disk of the networked user computer. Many websites want to know how many people, what kind of people visit this site, and ask for the first Visiting their users to enter their own name, address, phone number, occupation and other personal data, and make the information into a visitor's data card stored on the visitor's computer hard disk through the visitor's browser, named cookies .txt. This is equivalent to sending a membership card to the first-time visitor. When the user next visits the website, his computer browser will automatically present the membership card, and you can enter the website without having to check the customs. But at the same time it also poses a security risk to our personal privacy. For example, others do not need to know my username and password. I can use my computer to access the website I frequent, or the email address I keep in my cookies is collected by other websites and sold to other websites (this is why we can receive the enthusiasm of an unheard of website. The reason for advertising spam), etc. If your browser doesn't work, you may delete all temporary Internet files on your computer. However, once you do this, you will lose all cookies. File. When you visit a website again, the website will think that you are a new user and assign you a new user ID and a new cookie. The result will be a deviation from the old and new users of the website statistics, and you It is also difficult to recover past saved parameter selections. But if you are using a public computer to access the Internet (for example, in an Internet cafe or in the office), it is recommended that you clear the cookies. After all, security is first and hidden by default.

"Local Settings". The IE download file buffer "Temporary Internet Files" folder is located in the Local Settings folder under each user directory. Local Settings This folder holds application data, history, and temporary files. When we run a program installed in the system, the program automatically extracts the data of the application in that folder. Temporary Internet Files, when you use IE browser to browse the webpage, the system will automatically put the content of the browsed webpage in this directory. When you open the same webpage again, the system will extract it from this directory, which can speed up the browsing. . There is such a huge cache folder under each user's folder. Although the IE file buffer can speed up the webpage, it is also bulky. This wastes a lot of our hard disk space, so we can put all users' IE cache files into the same folder, which saves disk space and brings convenience to multiple users. Right-click on the IE icon and select the "Internet Properties" command, then open the "Internet Properties" dialog. In the "General" tab item, find the "Temporary Internet files" item, click the "Settings" button to pop up the settings dialog box, click the "Move Folders" button in the folder, and select the folder under the specified user. can. Other users are then modified in this way. Hidden by default.

These folders are stored in “My Documents”. Not much to say, you can delete, the default is hidden.

"NetHood" This folder holds a shortcut to each user's shared folder stored in Network Neighborhood when using Network Neighborhood. With these shortcuts, we can quickly open the required shared folder. . If you save each user's shortcut to access the network neighborhood to the specified folder, we can quickly access the shared folder of the computer in the same network segment in any user environment, bringing us file sharing. Convenience. Open the registry editor when you modify it, find the "Nethood" subkey under the Shell Folders branch, then open the "Edit String" dialog box for the subkey, and enter the specified folder in the "Value Data" item of the dialog box. The location is OK, and other users can also modify it according to this method. In the future, we will be able to save the shortcuts of the shared folders that each user has accessed through My Network Places.

"PrintHood" print shared directory, nothing to say, hidden by default.

"Recent" recently opened document, can be deleted, hidden by default.

"SendTo" is sent to the folder. The content in this folder corresponds to the content in the send item in the right mouse button menu, you can add or modify the items in the send menu. We can quickly process the specified files by right-clicking the menu, such as sending to "My Documents", quickly compressing the specified files, sending emails quickly, etc., which brings convenience to our normal operation. In fact, we can also copy the shortcuts of the folders we use frequently (such as U disk) to SendTo. Later, when we right click and select the "send to" command, we can see that there is a U under the menu. The letter of the disk. In this way, we can quickly send the specified file to the USB flash drive through the “Send” menu.

"Templates" This folder stores template files for common programs, such as winword.doc, powerpnt.ppt, excel.xls, etc. Templates contain elements such as paragraph structure, font style, and page layout. style. It determines the basic structure of the document and the style of the settings. In addition to understanding the functionality of the template, we can set a personalized template in this folder according to your needs. When creating a new template, right-click in the blank space of the folder and select the "New → Microsoft Word Document" command to create a new Word file and rename it to winword2.doc. Double-click the file and make some personality settings for the font, glyph, page size, etc., and save the file. Later, right-click in the "Explorer", select the "New → Microsoft Word Document" command, and then double-click the newly created document, you will find that it has applied our settings in winword8.doc.

The NTUSER.DAT, ntuser.ini, and ntuser.dat.LOG files are registry files that act on individual users. Stores application settings for "Explorer", taskbar, network printer, user settings in the control panel, attachment settings (including calculator, clock, notepad, HyperTerminal, etc.).