Last week I ran across what looked like an interesting program (Tizzle Talk). It translates your IM for you. So I tried it, yeah i know bad idea. I couldnt quiet figgure out how to get it to work, and I mostly use trillion, so I uninstalled it, or so I thought.
I opened up my ‘My Documents’ folder today and noticed there were 40+ folders in it. Ones that I know I didnt put there. AppPatch, Microsoft.NET, WinSxS, Oracle, System32, Fonts, etc… If these wasn’t weird enough, some folders were listed multiple times. I didn’t know NTFS would allow a folder to contain files of the same name. A quick look at the dates on the folders showed they all were created the same date/time I installed Trizzle talked. A quick scan of my HD for all files on that date showed them in a bunch of folders. I had more of these ‘ghost’ folders in Windows, Windows\System32, Program Files, Program Files\Common Document Settings\\. I’m not sure what this has to do with trizzle, and why it created all of them, but each folder was empty. So point of warning to anyone who uses/used trizzle. You might have a bunch of extra files laying around.
Did i mention it’s been raining here for the last week… lots and lots of rain.