re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories
Monday, February 18, 2002 at 10:45 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Daniel Waters
(1 messages posted)
I'm in the same boat. I got that particular webpage translated by a Japanese co-worker
and it basically says "this folder can't be deleted, sorry". And there is no info
on the Xerox or Msft websites (not that there would be). Most distressing. Until
someone comes up with a fix or a workaround, I guess we can just keep tinkering and
see what happens.
On Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 9:49 am, Jason Andriulaitis wrote:
>I have the same problem, and checking the disk doesn't report any problems with
the
>MFT. Although I used the WinXP check disk tool, maybe Norton would yeild better
>results.
>
>The dir can be erased in safe mode, but it just re-appears on normal boot - most
>distressing. At least I feel somewhat better knowing others are having the same
>problem... I no longer think it's some kind of trojan.
>
>A Google search for "nwwia" turned up a bunch of articles on the Japanese Xerox
site,
>some of which lead to articles on the Japanese Microsoft site, but I was unable
to
>find any equivalents on the english sites. Anyone in this thread speak Japanese?
>
>http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/release/2001/1228_nwwia.html
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/JAPAN/support/kb/articles/j070/0/25.asp
>
>J.
>
>
>On Monday, December 3, 2001 at 2:16 am, Mark Stephenson wrote:
>
>Here's an interesting one that I'd like someone's idea's on.
>
>XP has created loads of empty directories in my program files dir that I don't want
>and I can't delete them.
>
>I'm admin on the box so there should be no problems but the error messages that
>I
>get (which I can't remember at this point) suggests that there are services accessing
>these empty directories.
>
>So I've rooted around looking for things but find no way of doing it.
>
>I installed the Recovery Option and cannot delete these directories there either.
>
>Example of these directory's are \program files\xerox\nwwia and msn gaming.
>
>And I've never had anything made by xerox on my machine and can find no reference
>to Xerox in the registry.
>
>I've tried to shut down as many services as possible and I've changed the rights
>to these directories but to no avial, they just reset themselves.
>
>Has anyone else come across this problem?
>
>Cheers
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