I'm cleaning up what seems like umpty-seven bajillion megs of just plain
CRAP that's stored on the disk of the roadside machine I snagged and
made mention of a couple-three weeks ago, and I'm going out of my head
with the friggin' "Are you sure you want to delete <whatever file I'm
trying to trash>?" dialogs popping up every time I try to toss another
file full of insipid garbage from the previous user's surfing/computer
use.
Side note to nowhere:
Based on the stuff I'm dumping by what seems like the metric ton, said
user was a teenage girl with a marked affinity for those idiotic "What
season are you?", "What flower are you?", "What <fill in the blank> are
you?" websites - and even worse, she was a compulsive saver of the
results - each one in its own file, most of them located as far from the
others as possible, each the sole occumpant of its own separate
subdirectory, all bearing names that are useless for any purpose, and
most with their own individual icon and/or extension! Never mind the
multiple thousand 3-10 second song/video clips from some sort of "Sample
MP3s" site (or several) and who-knows-how-many files scattered from hell
to breakfast that appear to be something like, but not actually, an
attempt at a diary/journal type thing, at least 200 (that I've
encountered so far - no telling how many more I'll find hiding in
various nooks and crannies - aborted resumes, and hundreds of PC
Paintbrush (or something similar) files of "art" that a 4 year old would
be ashamed of. How do people DO this sort of thing to a computer?!?!?
Anyway, back on track...
I've figured out how to get the trash can/recycle bin to quit asking me
if I'm "...sure you want to permanently delete these <X> items?", but
getting the system to quit asking me if I'm sure I want to put things in
the bin to begin with has me stumped.
On a Mac, it would be a checkbox in the "General preferences" control
panel. I can't find an equivalent for Windows, and I'm going bonkers!
HELP, PLEASE!!!!!!
And while I've got someone's attention, is there a Windows way to set up
something like Mac's "Dial on demand" concept? (As in "If there's no
internet connection open and something needs one, go ahead and connect
using the dial-up configuration that's marked as the default.") -
WITHOUT having the machine either popping up a dialog asking me for
permission to dial (in triplicate, no less!) every 30-45 seconds anytime
it isn't connected (Even when I'm not doing anything even remotely
related to internet activity), or more or less permanently
auto-connecting at startup?
<Sigh> Trying to bring this box into a state that I'd consider to be
something that at least bears a passing resemblance to usable and
organized is reminding me over and over and over again why I've always
considered Windows to be a pile of crap put together by a committee of
manic-depressive idiots presided over by a drunk schizophrenic throwing
dice to decide what "features" to put in. Thankfully, I've kept the Mac
for "real" work... God knows I'd get absolutely *NOTHING* accomplished
if I'd simply jumped to Windows and dumped the Mac.