re: It works, but how?
Friday, September 5, 2003 at 1:09 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brian Bober
(4 messages posted)
I don't think this applies to this issue.
On Saturday, May 10, 2003 at 10:15 am, PartieHonteuse wrote:
>Xp has inbuilt ability to scan and OCR docs.
>
>This ability was licenced from Xerox, despite the fact that every scanner uses it's
>own ocr program much better than XP built in generic hit or miss form
>
>If you are determined to use the inbuilt XP version, if your scanner will let you,
>it will use the Xerox/nwwia folder as tempory holding place for the files while
it
>processes them.
>
>It is perfectly harmless so leave it alone.
>
>the same applies to the redundant frontpage folder in XP.
>
>That is there for people who have created webpages with 9x and frontpage express.
>the files that have been created look for that folder to hold tempory information,
>while they are being changed. ignore that one as well. If you can't ignore and
wish
>to "delete an undeleteable file" in wiindows XP follow these steps taken from http://www.dougknox.com
>(only his post pertains to files, you can change it to pertain to folders/dirs)
>
>Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs. Click
Start,
>Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.
> Leave Task Manager open. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the
>directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in. At the command prompt
>type DEL where is the file you wish to delete. Go back
to
>Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.
> Close Task Manager.
>
>to change it to delete a folder instead of DEL use RMDIR where
>is the name of the folder/directory you wish to delete..
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