re: EASY way to DELETE nwwia, xerox, etc.
Sunday, August 8, 2004 at 9:32 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Carl Ruppert
(1 messages posted)
Please just leave the directory and the sfcfiles alone. They ARE in fact essential
to the XP operating system. I learned the hard way, and had to replace what was so
easily removed. If you ever have to run the DirectX Diagnostic tool from Run (dxdiag),
it will fail w/o these files. There are plenty of "ghosts" in XP, but this is not
one. I tried to free up hard drive space by clearing as much as possible, and fell
for this trick. Don't. If you don't KNOW what it does, leave it alone or call Support.
Whew.
On Thursday, September 18, 2003 at 5:25 pm, zardiw wrote:
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>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....
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>But there's a very EASY way to get rid of these!!!!
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>Here's what you do:
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>I owe this solution to 'twister', who lives/posts here:
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>http://www.asendtechnologies.com/vb/showthread.php?t=6868
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>This will give you added power over your Xtremely Pesky operating system. I did
the
>following and have had NO problems
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>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'.
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>Results will be sfcfiles.dll, in one or more places. Change all their names (highlight
>the file and hit F2) to sfcfilesold.dll.
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>XP may tell you that you are being very very BAD, so tell XP to go piss up a rope...lol........
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>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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