It works, but how?
Sunday, October 20, 2002 at 12:25 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Saul Stahlman
(1 messages posted)
I came here looking for a way to get rid of the blasted directories, and, somehow,
managed to figure it out myself. ::boggles:: Well, sort of. I don't know what finally
'did it', but currently I don't have any of the following under the directory that
serves as my "Program Files" (on my system, 'sbin'):
Outlook Express
MSN Gaming Zone
Netmeeting
MovieMaker
Xerox
First, I used Xteq to disable SFC as best as I could (I'm running XP slipstreamed
with sp1). I've got it set up to pop up dialogs when it runs, which I always cancel.
Outlook, Netmeeting, MovieMaker etc files were removed with Norton SysWorks 2001's
cleansweep... (2003 is SUCH a piece of crap... when I changed my program files directory,
it just stopped working, saying files had been tampered with... and no amount of
removing and reinstalling seems to work, even removing anything norton from the registry
and shared files... anyone know how to remove *EVERY* trace of Norton from their
system? Or shall I make time to use Dllinfo until I've got it?)
At this point, directories still would not let themselves be deleted... oh.exe still
showed them belonging to winlogin. Next step was to use regedit to removing every
reference to any of them... ie, I searched on 'sbin' and anything that said Netmeeting
or Movemaker etc I removed (the key). After doing THAT, rebooted, and was able to
remove. I also had changed the permissions on some so that the system account had
no access. I don't think that really mattered. Only weird part is that none of the
entries I removed made any reference to Xerox (as others have noted here). And I
never run the imaging service. Pretty weird. This is a pretty useless thing, but
I'm anal about configuring my system, and knowing exactly what each directory holds
and why, so, for others like me, I hope this helps a bit. Note that I deleted the
directories in normal mode windows... didn't use safe mode or the recovery console.
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