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HERE IS THE SOLUTION! (and it sucks) re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories
Monday, February 18, 2002 at 4:32 pm
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Posted by Seth (1 messages posted)

Phenomenon When the Windows XP is installed, < > the \xerox\nwwia folder is drawn up to the systemdrive \Program Files subordinate. Circumstance This operation is specification of Windows XP. Details The \xerox\nwwia folder from the XEROX Corporation way the WIA which is offered (the WindowsImage Acquisition) is prepared in order to utilize the ƒlƒbƒgƒ[ƒNƒXƒLƒƒƒi of correspondence. In addition, because it is the folder which is protected by the system, it is not possible to delete. I got this info by using the altavista/babel fish translator to translate the webpage on this URL (http://www.microsoft.com/JAPAN/support/kb/articles/j070/0/25.asp) from japanese to english. ++++++++++ In conclusion, you can't do a thing to these folders becuase they are protected by the system. Nice... I guess we'll just have to live with it, what a piece of crap.

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

Written in response to:
Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Mark Stephenson: Monday, December 3, 2001 at 2:16 am)

Responses to this message:
The interesting thing... (fakeh: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 3:24 pm)

re: HERE IS THE SOLUTION! (and it sucks) re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (John: Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 9:43 am)

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Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Mark Stephenson: Mon, Dec 3, 2001, 2:16 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Mark Stephenson: Mon, Dec 3, 2001, 2:43 am)

Possible Solution for those who come after me! re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Mark Stephenson: Mon, Dec 3, 2001, 2:50 am)

re: Possible Solution for those who come after me! re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Michael Vanier: Fri, Feb 1, 2002, 6:09 am)

re: Possible Solution for those who come after me! re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Andre: Fri, Feb 1, 2002, 7:22 am)

re: Possible Solution for those who come after me! re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Phil: Wed, Feb 6, 2002, 10:24 am)

re: Possible Solution for those who come after me! re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (roachfart: Wed, Feb 13, 2002, 1:38 pm)

re: Possible Solution for those who come after me! re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (rav: Wed, Apr 14, 2004, 4:12 pm)

re: Possible Solution for those who come after me! re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Jeff: Fri, Feb 4, 2005, 5:30 pm)

re: Possible Solution for those who come after me! re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (bill: Thu, Jun 28, 2007, 7:27 pm)

re: Possible Solution for those who come after me! re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (JK: Sun, Jun 22, 2003, 6:55 am)

re: Possible Solution for those who come after me! re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Brian Bober: Thu, Sep 4, 2003, 10:21 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Gareth Lock: Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 4:24 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Jason Andriulaitis: Sun, Feb 17, 2002, 9:49 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Daniel Waters: Mon, Feb 18, 2002, 10:45 am)

HERE IS THE SOLUTION! (and it sucks) re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Seth: Mon, Feb 18, 2002, 4:32 pm)

The interesting thing... (fakeh: Wed, Apr 17, 2002, 3:24 pm)

re: HERE IS THE SOLUTION! (and it sucks) re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (John: Sat, Sep 6, 2003, 9:43 am)

A MUCH EASIER way to DELETE nwwia, xerox: (zardiw: Thu, Sep 18, 2003, 5:17 pm)

Simple effective and safe solution. (Gavin Sharp: Wed, Feb 4, 2004, 5:20 pm)

re: Simple effective and safe solution. (Ben: Sat, Sep 11, 2004, 12:30 pm)

re: Simple effective and safe solution. (Gavin Sharp: Sat, Sep 11, 2004, 4:00 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Jason Andriulaitis: Tue, Feb 19, 2002, 8:10 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Charlie: Wed, Mar 6, 2002, 1:25 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Erik Ruggels: Thu, Mar 21, 2002, 7:10 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Jerry Bogrem: Sun, Mar 24, 2002, 7:03 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (miles: Sat, Mar 30, 2002, 12:44 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Nikhil Nawaz: Sat, Apr 6, 2002, 3:06 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Tyler Hepworth: Tue, Apr 9, 2002, 6:52 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Rewind: Sat, Apr 13, 2002, 7:59 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Jb: Wed, Apr 17, 2002, 1:30 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Cap: Fri, Jun 21, 2002, 7:01 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Bejhan: Mon, Sep 2, 2002, 11:51 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (a solution) (Steven Don: Fri, Jul 12, 2002, 12:56 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (a solution) (Adam: Sun, Jul 21, 2002, 8:49 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (a solution) (Steven Don: Mon, Jul 22, 2002, 2:40 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (a solution) (SysAdmin: Sat, Aug 10, 2002, 4:11 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (a solution) (Guy: Thu, Aug 29, 2002, 9:25 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (a solution) (Complexable: Fri, Aug 30, 2002, 5:52 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (a solution) (Bejhan: Tue, Sep 3, 2002, 7:15 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (a solution) (shannon: Sat, Sep 7, 2002, 9:42 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (a solution) (Joseph Riesen: Thu, Oct 10, 2002, 6:19 pm)

It works, but how? (Saul Stahlman: Sun, Oct 20, 2002, 12:25 pm)

re: It works, but how? (Rob: Thu, Mar 27, 2003, 12:12 pm)

re: It works, but how? (cobra: Sat, Apr 26, 2003, 8:16 am)

re: It works, but how? (Brian Bober: Thu, Sep 4, 2003, 10:32 pm)

re: It works, but how? (teacup: Thu, May 8, 2003, 9:16 pm)

re: It works, but how? (PartieHonteuse: Sat, May 10, 2003, 10:15 am)

re: It works, but how? (Brian Bober: Fri, Sep 5, 2003, 1:09 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Jeff adams: Sat, Jun 14, 2003, 2:07 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Scott: Fri, Jun 20, 2003, 12:57 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Rob: Fri, Aug 8, 2003, 8:49 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Muratech: Fri, Aug 22, 2003, 6:08 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (Brian Bober: Thu, Sep 4, 2003, 10:17 pm)

EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc. (zardiw: Thu, Sep 18, 2003, 5:25 pm)

Re; Deleting empty directories (Pippa: Fri, Sep 26, 2003, 2:35 pm)

re: Re; Deleting empty directories (Darkestfieriest: Thu, Nov 20, 2003, 12:19 pm)

re: EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc. (Damn Microflotz: Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 5:42 am)

re: EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc. (John B: Sat, Jan 31, 2004, 9:03 am)

re: EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc. (Billy Girlardo: Sat, Jan 31, 2004, 3:52 pm)

re: EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc. (joniaint: Mon, Apr 26, 2004, 8:19 am)

re: EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc. (Rik: Wed, Apr 28, 2004, 7:15 pm)

re: EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc. (Tony: Thu, Apr 29, 2004, 6:58 am)

re: EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc. (Alisa: Fri, May 7, 2004, 4:23 pm)

re: EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc. (LEDOUX: Thu, Jul 8, 2004, 12:13 am)

re: EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc. (Carl Ruppert: Sun, Aug 8, 2004, 9:32 pm)

re: EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc. (Rich: Sun, Oct 31, 2004, 6:44 am)

Simple, effective, solution. (Gavin Sharp: Wed, Feb 4, 2004, 5:18 pm)

re: Simple, effective, solution. (Marco Coletti: Thu, Dec 1, 2005, 10:47 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories (BigBlue: Wed, Dec 8, 2004, 10:08 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories - DONE! (Flemur13013: Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 9:47 am)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories - DONE! (Michelle Wilkins: Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 8:04 pm)

re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories - DONE! (Dori: Sat, Nov 12, 2005, 11:12 pm)

No problems, it is gone!! (Urban: Mon, Apr 17, 2006, 10:44 am)

re: No problems, it is gone!! (Roger Morris: Tue, Sep 19, 2006, 9:01 pm)

re: No problems, it is gone!! (AlexI: Sun, Feb 11, 2007, 8:32 am)

re: WARNING: Spyware of the worst kind. (Anon: Fri, Jun 30, 2006, 12:35 pm)

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