re: Possible Solution for those who come after me! re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories
Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 1:38 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by roachfart
(1 messages posted)
The reason it appears in search assistant is because it been searched for, it dosn't
solve the problem to delete that key.
On Wednesday, February 6, 2002 at 10:24 am, Phil wrote:
>I was just cleaning up my hard drive and I found the infamous ''xerox/nwwia'' files
>and directory. I HAVE found that if you go into regedit however, it shows that it's
>listed under HKEY-Current user/software/microsoft/search assistant. It appears to
>be embedded for whatever reason by Microsoft....for what purpose only they know.
>*L* Use ''find'' to find the path for it in reg-edit. ( I also found a few program
>keys that were from surfing on the web also in the same place) I imagine that if
>you removed that REG_SZ, THEN you could delete the xerox directory.....who's first?
>*G*
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>On Friday, February 1, 2002 at 7:22 am, Andre Craven wrote:
>MIKE HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM ??
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>On Friday, February 1, 2002 at 6:09 am, Michael Vanier wrote:
>Mark, did you ever resolve your problem? I have the same situation with the Xerox
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>"nwwia" directory and I have tried everything including trying to delete in Safe
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>mode and DOS.
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>On Monday, December 3, 2001 at 2:50 am, Mark Stephenson wrote:
> The saga continues as I trawl through the back messages........
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>In this message
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>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/r1007036226
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>It states that if I run XP in safe mode or debug I should be able to delete these
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>files.
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>If this works that will be great, however it's still annoying that they happened
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>in the first place.
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