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Hi, I just reformatted my PC, and I saved my old History, Favorites, and Temp Internet Files onto another drive. When I try to replace those files on the fresh install. Favorites is cool, but both of the others are protected and cannot be overwritten. Any ideas on how to get around this. I gues only a moron would not have forseen this in ME.
Thanks in Advance
Jim
You could do that under DOS.
Use a Win98 Bootable disk. Delete the new files from that folders and replace them with the old ones.
A couple of useful commands to add into this bootable disk before doing anything else are:
1. Attrib
2. Deltree
These will help you do this job easily and faster.
why would you want to save your temporary Internet files ?
the cookies are not stored there...
they are saved in a cookies folder...
anyway when you copy the files in dos put Xcopy32.exe on the floppy (you still want long file names to work...)
btw, you can just rename the folder in DOS and then windows will not protect it anymore.. (but also make sure you delete a file called Desktop.ini which is hidden in those directories)
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Good luck
you guys like making work for yourself, James you should have used the import/export in the file menu of IE which allows you to export cookies, favourites, etc.
and here's the dos command to help you on your way
if exist %temp% goto copytmp
md c:\windows\temp (or cookies)
:copytmp
attrib <drive><folder> -r -a -s -h
copy <drive><folder>\*.* to c:\windows\temp (or cookies)
deltree <drive><folder>
hope this helps
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C'ya
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if exist %temp% goto copytmp
md c:\windows\temp (or cookies)
:copytmp
attrib {drive}{folder}\*.*-r -a -s -h
copy {drive}{folder}\*.* to c:\windows\temp (or cookies)
deltree {drive}{folder}
C'ya