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Old 03-20-2005
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Hope this is acceptable, this refers to a thread that I started in Misc Software, namely; "Unable to delete some items of previous ISP"

I've hit a blank there, no one can help, so I thought that other members, & indeed, staff, may have a fresh view on this matter.
I find it strange that there is apparently no solution, please read all my posts there, to get the full picture, as you can see, I've tried everything that I can think of with no result, one of my last posts explained that it was not to do with the CD drive, as I first thought, I'm not sure if anyone could understand how that altered the thinkig on this, as I have had no further replies.
One member, as you will see, suggested going into the Registry, isn't this being a little drastic, I don't want to mess up, or is it just me being over-cautious again?

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Old 03-21-2005
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With regard to "Unable to delete" etc, I get "RNDLL" in the tray at the same time.
I have just done a search on RNDLL, & got twenty results, namely;

17 in No; rndll32exe etc, C:\Windows Prefetch [11 to 81kb] PF file, various dates

one; s\rndll C\Windows software distribution 33kb application

one; rundll 32 " " " 32kb "

one; " " C\Windows system 32 31kb "

Looking at [U]all[/U] these, should I delete all or some, in order to get rid of the [B]pesky[/B] "Unable to delete" notice? Will it be safe to do so?

Maurice

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Old 03-21-2005
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rundll32.exe is a necessary Windows component, located in \windows\system32. Other misspelled rndlls aren't.
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Old 03-21-2005
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Thanks, Mic, I ran my anti-virus, AVG, & as you will know, it lists [U]everything [/U], good files/programs first, among which was rundll.exe, noted as "ok", & you've just confirmed it, cheers, I might have really gummed things up if I had gone ahead with that delete!, now I need to know about the others, to delete, or not?????.
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Old 03-26-2005
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Thanks, Mic, I ran my anti-virus, AVG, & as you will know, it lists [U]everything [/U], good files/programs first, among which was rundll.exe, noted as "ok", & you've just confirmed it, cheers, I might have really gummed things up if I had gone ahead with that delete!, now I need to know about the others, to delete, or not?????.
OK guys, I'm betting that someone at TS [B]must[/B] know which of the remaining items on the list I've shown previously I can delete safely?

Have a [U]great[/U] Easter everybody


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