re: It works, but how?
Thursday, March 27, 2003 at 12:12 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Rob
(1 messages posted)
Umm guys.....its just a directory that does norhing but wait for some software you'll
never buy to end up in it. It does nothing. Why are you all so stressed? I bet
your desks are all arranged perpendicular and parallel and you make sure every icon
on your desktop lines up with the post it notes atached to the side of your monitor.
Chill out guys. It doesnt matter to anyone in the known universe.....and yes....Bill
Gates is evil.
On Sunday, October 20, 2002 at 12:25 pm, Saul Stahlman wrote:
>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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- It works, but how? (Saul Stahlman: Sunday, October 20, 2002 at 12:25 pm)
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