Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk

OldMike65 said:

Works for me, had no problem.....must be because of those crappie shortcut arrows

Must be. huh !!!
OK. Here's what happened. The below are 3 screenshots for firefox, chrome and IE. After I clicked on Download This Wallpaper. It opened another tab as seen:




Of course I killed them all.

Dino, I tried in Edge and it said I needed to update JAVA, so I ran the download link through Virus Total online and got this:

You didn't quite get what I mean... I was talking about the difference in deleting a "shortcut"(can easily be recreated) and deleting the .exe file icon(need to reinstall software then).
@Cliff S
Without the arrow there is no way to know the difference between the two, you'll either have to remember or of course right click>>properties, before deleting.

I do know exactly what you meant. However, each of us has his/her own preference. Like yourself, you turned on "Hide exntension for known File Types" so there's no extension shown for the executable, but if you had this option turned on then there would a ".exe" to diffentiate between the 2's.

For WinPE, it's OK to take out the arrow keys because everything you see is in RAM. If you delete anything, you delete what's in RAM, reboot then you'll get everything back.

In addition, WinPE is good if you ever want to test a piece of software, just install, play with it and decide if you want to install in the real environment.

topgundcp said:

I do know exactly what you meant. However, each of us has his/her own preference. Like yourself, you turned on "Hide exntension for known File Types" so there's no extension shown for the executable, but if you had this option turned on then there would a ".exe" to diffentiate between the 2's.

For WinPE, it's OK to take out the arrow keys because everything you see is in RAM. If you delete anything, you delete what's in RAM, reboot then you'll get everything back. 1

In addition, WinPE is good if you ever want to test a piece of software, just install, play with it and decide if you want to install in the real environment 2.

1 ok cool
2 Somewhat like a sandbox but not even on system disk(a floating sandbox??? lol)

topgundcp said:

Must be. huh !!!
OK. Here's what happened. The below are 3 screenshots for firefox, chrome and IE. After I clicked on Download This Wallpaper. It opened another tab as seen:




Of course I killed them all.

Wow - those are all potential infections!

Here I am running Firefox in WinPE so I can click on anything I want and here's the result. If I close the second screen, I am back to the 1st screen without any image displayed for download. If I click it again, It will take me to another link.
Anyhu, I got all the wallpapers I want from another site and use: Best Image Downloader, Download all Images from a Website or Gallery with NeoDownloader for bulk downloading any files from any websites.



@Cliff S,
Here's another example to let your friend's kids to surf the net all they want without touching your real Windows. Run faster than your Windows OS since there's no disk I/O.

topgundcp said:

Here I am running Firefox in WinPE so I can click on anything I want and here's the result. If I close the second screen, I am back to the 1st screen without any image displayed for download. If I click it again, It will take me to another link.
Anyhu, I got all the wallpapers I want from another site and use: Best Image Downloader, Download all Images from a Website or Gallery with NeoDownloader for bulk downloading any files from any websites.

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