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Deleting a Dll that windows is using.

Discussion in 'Windows OS' started by Ayasha, Jun 16, 2002.

  1. Ayasha Newcomer, in training Posts: 44

    Greetings all. I am at my wits end to delete a dll from kazza. My little brother downloaded it while I was away at work and I have been able to remove everything I can find from it so far except one dll that windows is using. I am runnning Windows 2000 server on this particular machine. I have tried deleting it in safe mode, from the command prompt. I have deleted very registry key I can find as well. It is using rundll32 to act as a program, but I can't end it to delete it. I can end rundll32 but not this dll. Please someone help me!

    Ayasha
  2. TS | Thomas Newcomer, in training Posts: 1,327

    try running Ad-Aware to remove it.
    If not checking [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
    in the registry to delete the reference thats loading it.
  3. uncleel Newcomer, in training Posts: 1,145

  4. Mictlantecuhtli TS Special Forces Posts: 4,916   +9

    If the filesystem is FAT32, you can delete the file by booting from a 9x/ME boot floppy and using del command.
  5. Ayasha Newcomer, in training Posts: 44

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    Well since the file system is NTFS, I couldn't delete it from a command prompt. What I finally ended up doing was re-installing kazaa and then re-removing all of its components. This time I was able to remove everything. A friend of mine had suggested it.
  6. Phantasm66 Newcomer, in training Posts: 6,504