Root

I've got lines in my autoexec.bat to get rid of all the rubbish directories that various micro$oft programs force on me ie my music, my photos and all the intrusive stuff like temp internet files and stuff.

I'm using deltree to do this, and each time autoexec invokes the command, I have to confirm it. I know for a fact that there is a way round this. It involves putting the character y in a file, and pointing to this file in each line of the autoexec.bat that invokes it.

My problem, is that I can't remember exactly how to do all this. Anyone able to help?

Cheers
Root

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Wyzcrak

Use del.exe instead?

del c:\whatever

Bam. C:\whatever and everything inside it is gone?

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kormendi

rmdir C:\windows\junkfolder /s/q

this command will delete all files in the directory "junkfolder" and its subdirectories without prompting.
it will also remove the folder "junkfolder"

to delete individual files without a prompt try
del junkfile /q

the /q on both commands prevents the prompt from asking yes or no

This all works in windows xp, It may not work in 98 or 95.


deltree should have a parameter that will turn off the prompt... try deltree ? or deltree /? to see available parameters.

Root

Rmdir only has one switch, and thats for file by file confirmation.

Should there be a switch after the path Wyz? del c:\whatever only removes the files within \whatever, doesn't remove the directory, *and* asks for confirmation

Edit: Never mind thanks for your help guys, turns deltree has a switch to supress confirmation, but unlike most dos commands, this one is very picky about where the switch goes.

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Rampage

Nope, Kormendi is right:
Removes (deletes) a directory.

RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path
RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path

/S Removes all directories and files in the specified directory
in addition to the directory itself. Used to remove a directory
tree.

/Q Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S

Deltree doesn't come with XP...what kinda hacked-up OS are you on?

Root

Clearly a micro$oft one

Win98se in this case.

c:>rmdir/?
Removes (deletes) a directory

RMDIR [drive:] path
RD [drive:] path

No switches there. So I tried

c:\windows> rmdir /s /q temp
Invalid switch - /s

Just to try everything, I tried

c:\windows>rmdir /q temp
Invalid switch - /q

So I don't know what hacked up OS *you* are on

So how are you supposed to get rid of all the intrusive directories on startup? I bet you can't get rid of index.dat in your temporary internet files directory. Nothing worse than spyware that spybot can't detect.

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Wyzcrak

I've never had a need to remove temp directories manually in XP.

I run MS Anti-Spyware and have more disk space than I've yet proven able to consume.

I remember 98se.

They're not happy memories.

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Rampage

Ah, well you didn't mention that before. RMDIR does very different things in XP versus 98 (mainly because XP doesn't have DELTREE).

The question is, why would I care about getting rid of it? It doesn't meet the definition of spyware, just annoyware if I have nothing better to worry about -- but then, I could say that about the whole OS and not just one file.

Root

I find that term rather amusing. Hotmail has spam blocking, but you try using it to block junk from......hotmail

I don't like the way that windows logs everything you do. I cannot see why the content.ie5 directory has to be hidden in such a way that most users never even realise it exists.

I'm a big believer in innocent people having all the privacy they want, and between the security holes in MS products, and their built in spyware, I'll just be glad when I'm proficient enough at linux to abandon M$ for good.

Root

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