re: EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc.
Saturday, January 31, 2004 at 9:03 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John B
(1 messages posted)
Jeesh,
Thanks. This fix worked but I still don't know what the hell the Xerox/NWWIA directories
were for or what they did.
It just annoyed the $hit out of me because I never once used a Xerox product and
it wouldn't go away.
Does anyone know why it is there at all?
Again, thanks for the good info.
John - Columbus Ohio
On Thursday, September 18, 2003 at 5:25 pm, zardiw wrote:
>I can't believe how many messages/convoluted ways people have come up with here.
>How bout this, take a hammer and smash your hard drive...that ought to do it..I'm
>KIDDING, OK....lol....
>
>But there's a very EASY way to get rid of these!!!!
>
>Here's what you do:
>
>I owe this solution to 'twister', who lives/posts here:
>
>http://www.asendtechnologies.com/vb/showthread.php?t=6868
>
>This will give you added power over your Xtremely Pesky operating system. I did
the
>following and have had NO problems
>
>Do a find on 'sfcfiles'. You need to do the advanced search option, and check 'Search
>system folders', 'Search hidden files', and 'Search sub folders'.
>
>Results will be sfcfiles.dll, in one or more places. Change all their names (highlight
>the file and hit F2) to sfcfilesold.dll.
>
>XP may tell you that you are being very very BAD, so tell XP to go piss up a rope...lol........
>
>Restart, and voila, you can delete nwwia, xerox etc.
>
>http://www.wizardscave.com soon to be:
>
>http://www.lighthouse57.com...............z
>
>
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