Simple, effective, solution.
Wednesday, February 4, 2004 at 5:18 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Gavin Sharp
(4 messages posted)
Hi All,
I've found a (relatively) simple solution to the undeletable folder problem. Several
of these folders were present on my system, including the Xerox one. I followed the
instructions at:
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/790/
After a reboot, you are then able to remove the folders as you normally would. Be
aware that this does, however, also remove the protection of critical system files,
which depending on your level of expertise, could be either good or bad. The tweak
itself is harmless.
Gavin Sharp
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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