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re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Sunday, July 7, 2002 at 6:28 am Posted by Matt Fox (39 messages posted) This was answered in this forum here: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/r1014078754 And unfortunately, it seems like it has to remain there, and can't be deleted. If it just looks untidy, why not right-click on the folder, choose "properties" and make it hidden :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Sunday, July 7, 2002 at 6:57 am Posted by dan (379 messages posted) One of many folders that you can't delete. Inside the folder nwwia is 2 hided files : xrxflnch.exe and xrxftplt.exe. On Sunday, July 7, 2002 at 5:38 am, rxloren wrote: >Does anyone know why and what the folder named Xerox with the subfolder nwwia is >and what it does? I can't uninstal it and I'm afraid to put it in the recycle bin. >I do not have any Xerox software installed (so I believe) and there's nothing in >it. Any help? >Thanks! >Rxloren [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Friday, January 17, 2003 at 10:41 am Posted by lg (1 messages posted) You can delete it if you press F8 at boot up and go into save mode. Butttt....... it comes back???? On Sunday, July 7, 2002 at 6:57 am, dan wrote: >One of many folders that you can't delete. >Inside the folder nwwia is 2 hided files : xrxflnch.exe and xrxftplt.exe. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 9:30 pm Posted by Hank (1 messages posted) I believe that I have these because I used to have a Xerox printer (and software) installed, and apparently I (or the uninstall process) did not remove them. I believe there are some entries in the registry which "require" this to be there. Despite their location, I sure think they are related to Xerox. So, to those who have these files -- let's look for something common here: do you now, or did you ever have a Xerox printer installed? On Friday, January 17, 2003 at 10:41 am, lg wrote: >You can delete it if you press F8 at boot up and go into save mode. Butttt....... >it comes back???? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Wednesday, March 12, 2003 at 5:12 pm Posted by Amasea (1 messages posted) I've never had an Xerox printer, or any other Xerox products. I've just wiped my harddrive and reinstalled XP, and there it is. Anyone from Microsoft have a clue? On Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 9:30 pm, Hank wrote: >I believe that I have these because I used to have a Xerox printer (and software) >installed, and apparently I (or the uninstall process) did not remove them. I believe >there are some entries in the registry which "require" this to be there. Despite >their location, I sure think they are related to Xerox. >So, to those who have these files -- let's look for something common here: do you >now, or did you ever have a Xerox printer installed? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Monday, March 17, 2003 at 1:19 pm Posted by Rick Canady (1 messages posted) I've been going round and round with this one... I was able to delete it once and it came back at next boot. I just noticed that the folder is 'stealthily' moving itself around my drive! I was having trouble logginf into one of my domains through ws_ftp and noticed just for a second that nwwia folder was inside my program files\ws_ftp\ folder also. As soon as I exited out of the program it was gone. I'm getting a little concerned. On Sunday, July 7, 2002 at 5:38 am, rxloren wrote: >Does anyone know why and what the folder named Xerox with the subfolder nwwia is >and what it does? I can't uninstal it and I'm afraid to put it in the recycle bin. >I do not have any Xerox software installed (so I believe) and there's nothing in >it. Any help? >Thanks! >Rxloren [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Monday, April 21, 2003 at 11:35 pm Posted by Len (1 messages posted) If that's the case, as far as I can 'guess' it has to be either 1) Microsoft's doing, or 2) a backdoor in Microsoft's product allowing this 'worm' or whatever it is to install itself on systems through the internet... For you who formatted your HDD, did you notice it after you reconnected to the internet, or before? If before, it could still be a worm which managed to survive the format (sitting in FAT somehow or in BIOS). I'm just guessing here. I've never had a Xerox product, and cannot delete it either. It is most uncomfortable. On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 at 5:12 pm, Amasea wrote: >I've never had an Xerox printer, or any other Xerox products. >I've just wiped my harddrive and reinstalled XP, and there it is. Anyone from Microsoft >have a clue? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] How to DELETE xerox, nwwia: Thursday, September 18, 2003 at 5:43 pm Posted by zardiw (10 messages posted) 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 On Friday, January 17, 2003 at 10:41 am, lg wrote: >You can delete it if you press F8 at boot up and go into save mode. Butttt....... >it comes back???? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to DELETE xerox, nwwia: Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 4:23 am Posted by Joe (1 messages posted) I think it is a folder put there by aliens. That way they can track our internet usage. After studying our internet usage they can then target advertising (oh yes they came up with pop up ads and SPY ware). Then we'll purchase certain products with mind controlling chips in them. Once a significant percentage of the world's population is under their control...well YOU know the rest. We're doomed! Ummm maybe I have too much free time?!?!? On Thursday, September 18, 2003 at 5:43 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 12:50 pm Posted by Keith (1 messages posted) This is not that hard. c:\program files\xerox\nwwia contain two hideen folders. The files are loaded as part of an INF install. XSCAN_XP.inf to be exact. xscan_xp.inf is in your windows/inf folder. xscan.inf is part of xerox drivers. Why windows decided to load them for no reeason is a mystery, but they are not spybots or alien software. If you are worried about microsoft spying on you, worry about this "Installing SP1 updates 11 programs to report back to Mircosoft on your actions. Mircosoft explians this is to garther informaton in its white paper on the subject. Spooler and Media viewer but report back to mircosoft the title to ANYTHING you print or watch in media player. On Sunday, July 7, 2002 at 5:38 am, rxloren wrote: >Does anyone know why and what the folder named Xerox with the subfolder nwwia is >and what it does? I can't uninstal it and I'm afraid to put it in the recycle bin. >I do not have any Xerox software installed (so I believe) and there's nothing in >it. Any help? >Thanks! >Rxloren [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Monday, February 2, 2004 at 12:59 am Posted by MarcF (1 messages posted) Well actually, it is hard! If any of you have tried deleting or changing the name of the file "sfcfiles.dll", you will find that a few seconds later another file with the same name will automatically be generated. I deleted this file several times and noticed that the process "winlogon.exe" is the one working at the time the file is generated, therefore I assume it is what generates that file. So I am not going to bother with it anymore. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Monday, March 15, 2004 at 4:59 pm Posted by Paul Duxbury (1 messages posted) I have just found this (Informed) explanation on another forum. Hope it helps. 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 On Friday, January 17, 2003 at 10:41 am, lg wrote: >You can delete it if you press F8 at boot up and go into save mode. Butttt....... >it comes back???? > > >On Sunday, July 7, 2002 at 6:57 am, dan wrote: >>One of many folders that you can't delete. >>Inside the folder nwwia is 2 hided files : xrxflnch.exe and xrxftplt.exe. >> >> [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to DELETE xerox, nwwia: Wednesday, April 7, 2004 at 6:59 pm Posted by Mafruha (1 messages posted) I did follow your direction, but it did not work in my XP. If you know any other way to remove it, please let me know. Thanks, On Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 4:23 am, Joe wrote: >I think it is a folder put there by aliens. That way they can track our internet >usage. After studying our internet usage they can then target advertising (oh yes >they came up with pop up ads and SPY ware). Then we'll purchase certain products >with mind controlling chips in them. Once a significant percentage of the world's >population is under their control...well YOU know the rest. We're doomed! > >Ummm maybe I have too much free time?!?!? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to DELETE xerox, nwwia: Saturday, May 1, 2004 at 3:36 pm Posted by cyberwolf (1 messages posted) 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 greetzzzz. On Thursday, September 18, 2003 at 5:43 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to DELETE xerox, nwwia: Thursday, May 20, 2004 at 4:35 am Posted by 2suite (2 messages posted) That folder is installed in a clean install of XP and is used by the Windows Image Acquisition service. You need that service and that folder if you have a camera or a scanner. "nwwia" stands for "network windows image acquisition". [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Thursday, May 20, 2004 at 4:38 am Posted by 2suite (2 messages posted) That folder is installed in a clean install of XP and is used by the Windows Image Acquisition service. You need that service and that folder if you have a camera or a scanner. "nwwia" stands for "network windows image acquisition". On Monday, February 2, 2004 at 12:59 am, MarcF wrote: >Well actually, it is hard! If any of you have tried deleting or changing the name >of the file "sfcfiles.dll", you will find that a few seconds later another file with >the same name will automatically be generated. I deleted this file several times >and noticed that the process "winlogon.exe" is the one working at the time the file >is generated, therefore I assume it is what generates that file. So I am not going >to bother with it anymore. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Wednesday, December 27, 2006 at 1:26 pm Posted by MICROSCHROTT (1 messages posted) to put all this posts in other words: MICROSOFT SUCKS!!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 10:04 am Posted by Doc (81 messages posted) Scroll back up in this thread and read CAREFULLY the post re sfcfiles.dll... You must first delete the sfcfiles.dll in the hidden folder which has all the dll and other files. These dlls will regenerate the dll files elsewhere when XP discovers they are missing. (try deleting the Outlook Express program files. They magically reapper in a minute or so...) Take a look at the files for Outlook or Outlook express. If you search (making hidden an system files visible) you will find files with similar names in the folders: c:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache and c:\WINDOWS\system32 Now then... in the folder c:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache Change the names of the files from (example) sfcfiles.dll to sfcfilesxxx.dll Once you have altered these files, then you can delete the files in Outlook or elsewhere. XP may grouse about it but tell the system to ignore it. You will now find that you can delete the offending files and folders and they won't come back. Works for me. No more Outlook express, Netmeeting, Xerox, Messenger and the rest of the crap. Still working on MyEbooks... Adobe insists on regenerating that any time Reader is started. And you can open sfcfiles.dll with NOTEBOOK. Search in side it for "x e r o x" (spaces are imnportant. Hmmm.... Oh Yeah... the Fileunlocker program comes in quote handy. Be careful though. I usually just rename offending files, appending xxx to the filename. Juuust in case I might really need the file later... --Doc On Wednesday, December 27, 2006 at 1:26 pm, MICROSCHROTT wrote: >to put all this posts in other words: > > MICROSOFT SUCKS!!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Sunday, December 23, 2007 at 3:02 pm Posted by Michael Tozzano (1 messages posted) Paul, It was a mystery to me. Almost 4 years later... I noticed that no one had thanked you for the right answer! So, thanks and happy Holidays. Mike On Monday, March 15, 2004 at 4:59 pm, Paul Duxbury wrote: >I have just found this (Informed) explanation on another forum. Hope it helps. > ... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Friday, January 4, 2008 at 3:22 pm Posted by Jason (1 messages posted) I actually just deleted it and was searching around to see what is was... (just in case it was important). I got the same "Unable to delete" message. But I have this program called Unlocker. (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/#download for download) When ever that message pops up once you close it Unlocker runs, it tells you the file path, the process using the file and the path to the process. It then gives you some options, you can kill the process then delete it, have Unlocker try to delete it, rename it, copy it , or move it. I choose to have Unlocker delete it because the process was Winlogin.exe (Not the best thing to kill...) And it worked! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 7:04 am Posted by Doug (1 messages posted) I'm here because the latest runs of AdAware are freezing on this fold and no longer functioning. On Friday, January 4, 2008 at 3:22 pm, Jason wrote: >I actually just deleted it and was searching around to see what is was... (just in >case it was important). I got the same "Unable to delete" message. But I have this >program called Unlocker. (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/#download for download) >When ever that message pops up once you close it Unlocker runs, it tells you the >file path, the process using the file and the path to the process. It then gives >you some options, you can kill the process then delete it, have Unlocker try to delete >it, rename it, copy it , or move it. I choose to have Unlocker delete it because >the process was Winlogin.exe (Not the best thing to kill...) And it worked! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 12:41 pm Posted by Sushy (1 messages posted) This is happening with me too... When I run AdAware, it stops in that file (xerox/nwwia) and freezes there, so I can´t conclude my spy search. Have someone had success on deleting this file? On Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 7:04 am, Doug wrote: >I'm here because the latest runs of AdAware are freezing on this fold and no longer >functioning. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Friday, July 25, 2008 at 9:46 am Posted by bunghole nazi (1 messages posted) What they are is a mistake. They don't even do anything.Unless you use xerox products or msn games. Even then the new xerox products don't even use that folder anymore. Also there is msn gaming zone. What happened is when they were developing XP, then they compiled it and took the disk image for the final product to distribute, they had the xerox folder and msn gaming zone on there. So they ended up as being part of the OS (by mistake). Deleting sfcfiles.dll is not good to do. Because you cant do /sfc scan now thing to replace lost or damaged system files. Really these folders are harmless unless someone has made some virus that uses them. Then it is a problem but its not these folders that are the problem the problem is the virus itself. On Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 12:41 pm, Sushy wrote: >This is happening with me too... When I run AdAware, it stops in that file (xerox/nwwia) >and freezes there, so I can´t conclude my spy search. > >Have someone had success on deleting this file? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Friday, July 25, 2008 at 11:25 am Posted by Spexx (2229 messages posted) What a load of old twaddle. The folder is there because of legacy image acquisition software included in Microsoft Windows, licensed from Xerox. Delete those folders - use Unlocker. Knock yourself out. They come right back again. Spooky. Live with them and sleep easy. I thought I was the one supposed to be paranoid. Cheers. Spexx. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 11:52 pm Posted by Frut (1 messages posted) In Windows 7, they will include an empty 20GB file that sits on your harddisk, can't be deleted and does nothing, just to annoy you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Friday, August 29, 2008 at 1:21 am Posted by Spexx (2229 messages posted) More twaddle. What is "Windows 7"? Do you mean Internet Explorer 7? What is the name of the file and what is the name of the folder it is in? If it can't be deleted, which process has it open (use Unlocker to find out )? Is it really 20Gb in size? Cheers. Spexx. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 9:20 pm Posted by tony (1 messages posted) To EVERYONE: THERE IS A PROGRAM CALLED UNLOCKER. DOWNLOAD IT AND IT GIVES YOU THE POWER TO UNLOCK AND REMOVE ANY PART OF THE WINDOWS SYSTEM. On Friday, August 29, 2008 at 1:21 am, Spexx wrote: >More twaddle. What is "Windows 7"? Do you mean Internet Explorer 7? What is the name >of the file and what is the name of the folder it is in? If it can't be deleted, >which process has it open (use Unlocker >to find out )? Is it really 20Gb in size? Cheers. Spexx. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Monday, June 21, 2010 at 11:09 pm Posted by mike (1 messages posted) Just curious. Did anybody ever think of asking Microsoft about 'xerox' and other useless folders that XP installs? On Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 9:20 pm, tony wrote: >To EVERYONE: THERE IS A PROGRAM CALLED UNLOCKER. DOWNLOAD IT AND IT GIVES YOU THE >POWER TO UNLOCK AND REMOVE ANY PART OF THE WINDOWS SYSTEM. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: What is the Xerox - nwwia folder? Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 3:33 am Posted by Ham415 (1 messages posted) Even at Microsoft probably you cant find anybody that could explain. Do not forget : the Microsoft goal is not to sell you an OS that is stable, clean fast and efficient for a very lont time. The goal is to send you an OS that link you as much as moppsible and require you to pay regularly Why do you expect them to spend more time in clean programming and to do things in order to enable you to run the same computer longer without buying a new computer falt enought (with a new windows licence) ? Welcom in the "commercial games".... H. 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