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Friend's desktop was so fried from Kazaa and Limewire, that he couldn't even open a Windows explorer window. Ended up opening Notepad and copying all of his files to a thumbdrive using the file open dialog box before reformatting.
This kind of hacky dumb workaround is exactly what I wanted to read when I posted this thread, haha. It's kind of genius but also I'm horrified to imagine how things got to that point.
Didn't notepad file dialogue also use explorer?
IIRC, yes but it's called differently. I've used that technique to work around nannyware a time or two.
This is good to know; does it still work? Iβm assuming with the anecdote involving KaZaA and LimeWire weβre talking Windows 2000, ME, or XP.
I used in 7. I don't know about 10 or 11.