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cant delete empty frontpage dir

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Alex

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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
 
"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??
 
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)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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