cant delete empty frontpage dir

[Alex]

in program files theres a dir called "microsoft frontpage" (all in lowercase btw) and inside it theres "version3.0" and inside that there's "bin"
it says its in use and i cant delete, so i get in safe mode and get rid of it then when i get back in windows its there again and i cant delete...

running xp pro sp1 btw...

like what is this? and why is it in use?

thx

 

[NogginBoink]

First off, the error message would be helpful.

Secondly, try stopping the www service and deleting it.

 

[Alex]

"it says its in use and i cant delete"

ok so for those that need clarification, the error message said

"Error file is in use"

it was a standard message...

also what service should i stop??

 

[Noid]

I gave up on deleting that directory last year sometime.

I cant tell you how many different ways I tried,,,, I gave up.

The directory is setup by W2k. Dunno why, cuz it's empty (like you said)

 

[Alex]

:|

 

[LS]

The FrontPage and Xerox folders are protected by Windows File Protection. They will be recreated unless you either disable WFP or edit sfcfiles.dll. WFP is useful so I recommend the sfcfiles.dll edit.

This is only for XP Home/Pro with SP1 installed.

Boot into safe mode and use a hex editor to change the following 4 bytes in %systemroot%\system32\sfcfiles.dll:

$41CB6: change 4D to 3F
$41D4E: change 4D to 3F
$7C6BE: change 58 to 3F
$7C70E: change 58 to 3F

Rename %systemroot%\system32\dllcache\sfcfiles.dll to something else like sfcfiles.old if it's there.

Now you can delete those pesky folders and they wont return.

 

[Mitzi]

This is a known about problem, it seems that the people at MS who where responsible for generating the WinXP install routine made a boo-boo and included these files from their development machines by mistake.

Cheers for the info LS, its good to know they can be removed but I personally wouldn't fancy resorting to editing hex files to remove two essentially harmless directories.

Heres a long thread on the issue with a number of other solutions.