re: Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories
Thursday, September 4, 2003 at 10:17 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brian Bober
(4 messages posted)
This is one of my biggest beefs with Microsoft... They assume too much about where
the user will want things. I also don't like that C:\WUTemp directory.
I want my directories to be neat, and not a cluttered mess of Microsoft junk. That's
why I like Linux, because you can virtually configure anything (even if it means
hacking some code).
A little trick... You can use Process Viewer from www.sysinternals.com to see which
program is using these directories. For some stupid reason, its winlogon.exe
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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