Right-click Registry Values[?]

[cozofdeath]

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

Name = PendingFileRenameOperations

Value = Multi-String (REG_MULTI_SZ)

If the value is not there then there are no pending operations. When you open the key to add data every line must begin with \??\ then the filename.

Example:

\??\C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\TEMPOR~1\Content.IE5\index.dat

\??\C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\Cookies\index.dat

\??\C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\History\History.IE5\index.dat

If you want the file deleted you must put a blank line at the end of each line. The example above will delete all IE indexes. This is whats in mine now. I don't know why, Windows must delete them every so often. But multi-string values will NOT allow you to create a blank line. So you have to right click on the key and select Modify Binary Data and add atleast 2 pairs of 00's (nulls) at the end of each line. And thats it. Renaming/moving is about the same but instead of a blank line you put the path to the replacement file.

You could make a simple batch file to do this and add a context item in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\* key but the only registry tool to come with XP Home is reg.exe and it doesn't support that double null (0000) at the end of the value.

[Coreper]

thanks!