I believe that most of my friends' computers are installed on the Windows XP operating system. The new system has the benefits of a new system, but there are also some annoying things. For example, after reinstalling the system, everyone can always be there. Find a lot of unsightly folders in the famous "My Documents"? The most common folders are shown in Figure 1. Moreover, these folders have a characteristic, that is, each time they are deleted, they will come back after a few days, and become a group of uninvited guests who are rushing to the rush, and think of the previous days, the media screamed. The "rogue software", the author has given himself an image and a special name for this group of folders, called "rogue folder
How did these folders come out?
Actually, though These folders all have uninvited bad habits, but not every folder is useless. For example, "the files I receive" is used exclusively by Microsoft's MSN Messenger software to receive the direct transfer files from the other party, except that Since we have long been accustomed to creating related folders in the corresponding partitions to manage these files, it is natural to think that they are useless. After all, we still want to invite these uninvited guests out of our computer, but It’s hard to work with the rude deletions in the front, and we have to start with the source of these folders.
Actually, the reason These folders are automatically deleted after we delete them. In fact, it is very simple. They are all dedicated folders of a system component or application. Let's take "My Music". It is actually Windows Media. After the player has compressed the songs in the CD song, when we delete the folder for the first time, it will not be automatically generated, but if we open Media Player to compress a song, or just view the Media Player once. The option setting will cause the software to check the folder. If it finds that the specified folder is missing, it will be automatically regenerated once for the normal operation of the program. This is how long we have for these folders.
How do you get these "uninvited guests" out of the system?
After knowing the "real life" of these folders, it is easy to ask them out of the system. more, following the author to introduce a method of removing each folder separately
"my received files" -.
text Clip source: MSN Messenger receives the file from the other party by default
Software version: MSN Messenger 7.0
Removal method: Click "Tools" menu → "Options", in the pop-up " In the Options dialog box, click the "File Transfer" tab. At this point, you can see that the default file save location in the right window is exactly the "Files I Received" folder in my document. Click the "Change" button. Move this default folder to a different location. At this point, delete the "I received the files" folder in "My Documents" and you don't have to worry about it coming back.
< BR> “My eBooks” -
Folder Source: A default PDF document management folder for Adobe PDF Reader
Software Version: Adobe PDF Reader 6.0
Remove Method: Go to the "Plug_ins" subdirectory of the Adobe PDF Reader installation directory, hit the two files ebook.api, ebook.chs, move them out of the directory, and then delete "My eBooks" from "My Documents". "The folder can be.
"My Music" -
Folder Source: Windows Media Player default storage after compressing CD into WMA file
Software Version: Windows Media Player 10
Removal method: In the main interface of Windows Media Player, click "Tools" menu → "Options", click the "Rip Music" tab in the pop-up window, and then pass the default save path of the red box logo. After the "Change" button is modified to another location, delete the "My Music" folder in "My Documents".
"My Videos" -
folder Source: The software generates a folder you may sound a little strange, it's called Windows MovIE Maker, the main function is to edit digital video, this program usually It exists in the “Start” menu → “Accessories → Entertainment” and is also very simple to use. However, since DV machines have not been widely used in China, there are very few friends who use this software, and the video files generated by this software will be stored in this folder by default.
Software version: Windows MovIE Maker 5.1.
Removal method: To remove this dude is not as easy as the above, it is not like the software described above, you can The corresponding setting change command was found in the software settings, so we can't prevent it from automatically generating folders by changing the settings. Moreover, this software is not included in the system itself, and it cannot be deleted by the user through the "control panel". Therefore, in addition to not executing the software, there is no longer a method suitable for ordinary users. (Of course, if we do not normally execute the program, it is possible to delete the folder directly in "My Documents", because the software will not check for the folder even if it is deleted, and it will be automatically generated)
"My pictures" -
source folder: this folder is probably one of my friends appear the most, Me from Windows to Windows 2000 and then to Windows XP, it has not I do not know I feel that we have been with us for a long time, and its source is different from other folders, because only it is unique "Royal pedigree" (system comes with)
Software version: Windows XP
Removal method: It should be said that this folder is more convenient to use, and it has become the default image folder of many Microsoft programs (such as Office series software). If it is not special needs, try not to delete it casually. it. Of course, if your determination is fixed, just enter the following command "regsvr32 /u mydocs.dll" in the command prompt state and press Enter, then delete the "Picture Collection" folder.
[Small Tips] If you want to restore this function, you only need to enter "Regsvr32 mydocs.dll" in the command prompt again.
[Small Tips] If you want to know more about it For the usage of the Regsvr32 command, you can browse an article on this site, "Use Regsvr32 to solve Windows problems for you" http://soft.yesky.com/os/win/350/2066850.sHtml, where there are Very detailed introduction
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At this point, how to delete the "rogue folder" will be introduced to everyone, in fact, the so-called "rogue folder" is just one of the author gave it Name, each folder also has its own purpose, specifically whether these folders are useful to you, you have to please keep your eyes open, do not "people cloud" also ran all the folders ,Ha ha.