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solved my own problem

Jeff7181

Jeff7181

Lifer
Found out this piece of crap came from Dr. Divx. Apparently other people have been able to remove it... I, however, can't even find the damn thing. The only reason I know it exists is because it shows up as a file that couldn't be defragmented in Disk Defragmenter. It's 272 MB in size (others have reported as high as 1.5 GB).

I'm about to install another copy of Windows on my 2nd hard drive and see if I can backup the files that are in the system32 folder and then delete the system32 folder, then recreate the folder and put those files back that need to be there and see if the damn thing still shows up.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to get rid of it?
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Please don't cross post. Did turning off the "hide system files" feature help?
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Don't tell me what to do. The other post was about Dr. Divx being crap... this post is about deleting a file that doesn't appear to exist.

And no, it doesn't help because the feature was already turned off. No matter, I fixed it myself, thanks though.
 
Sorry, that was rude and uncalled for. Just frustrated cause I have a computer sitting here that won't POST that was supposed to be done last week. Every component, down to the floppy drive, works independantly of eachother in another PC... but there's some combination of parts that don't work.
 
So what did you do to fix it? The answer might help someone else. 😉

And despite being a dick, I did offer a suggestion. GL with the other issue.
 
I put the hard drive in another computer, copied all the contents of the system32 folder that I could see and select, put it in a temp folder, deleted the original system32 folder, then renamed the temp folder system32. That got rid of it... only catch was when I booted windows it had to check a bunch of files in the dllcache folder and compare them to files on the CD, which took about 15 minutes of clicking "retry" while it searched for each file I guess.
 
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