• ch00f@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    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.

      • dpflug@kbin.earth
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        9 days ago

        IIRC, yes but it’s called differently. I’ve used that technique to work around nannyware a time or two.

        • jqubed@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          This is good to know; does it still work? I’m assuming with the anecdote involving KaZaA and LimeWire we’re talking Windows 2000, ME, or XP.