RogerRampant
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I spent a lot of time and effort completely removing Windows Media Player from XP Home, which involved editing the registry and changing various file names, but eventually it seemed to have been completely removed
Now I have changed from XP Home to XP Professional, and not only has WMP reared it's ugly head in my life again, but I seem to have a similar sort of problem now with Outlook Express
I found some advice on how to completely remove Outlook Express here, and it says to rename a range of files including Oeimport.dll, Oemiglib.dll, and Oemig50.exe
The challenge I have is that if I try to delete the folder C:\Program Files\Outlook Express it won't let me as it says it's in use. If I go into that folder and delete any of those files, or rename them, another file of the old name will magically spawn a few seconds later
What I am trying to discover is what the name is of the program that is mysteriously recreating these files whenever I delete or rename them (and that's why I was so concerned when CTRL ALT DEL stopped working, but that's another story)
What I want in an ideal world is that if I click on a link to email somebody then Firefox will open, load either Hotmail or Gmail, and put their email addy in for me. What I currently have, and don't want, is when I click on a link to email somebody it opens Outlook Express (even though Add/Remove Windows Components suggests Outlook Express isn't even installed on my PC)
I am fairly hopeful of being able to remove WMP from my system again, but can anybody offer constructive advice on how to kill Outlook Express, please?
If it helps I can list all programs shown as running in Task Manager (thanks for the help in making that work again btw), and apologies if this question has already been asked before
Now I have changed from XP Home to XP Professional, and not only has WMP reared it's ugly head in my life again, but I seem to have a similar sort of problem now with Outlook Express
I found some advice on how to completely remove Outlook Express here, and it says to rename a range of files including Oeimport.dll, Oemiglib.dll, and Oemig50.exe
The challenge I have is that if I try to delete the folder C:\Program Files\Outlook Express it won't let me as it says it's in use. If I go into that folder and delete any of those files, or rename them, another file of the old name will magically spawn a few seconds later
What I am trying to discover is what the name is of the program that is mysteriously recreating these files whenever I delete or rename them (and that's why I was so concerned when CTRL ALT DEL stopped working, but that's another story)
What I want in an ideal world is that if I click on a link to email somebody then Firefox will open, load either Hotmail or Gmail, and put their email addy in for me. What I currently have, and don't want, is when I click on a link to email somebody it opens Outlook Express (even though Add/Remove Windows Components suggests Outlook Express isn't even installed on my PC)
I am fairly hopeful of being able to remove WMP from my system again, but can anybody offer constructive advice on how to kill Outlook Express, please?
If it helps I can list all programs shown as running in Task Manager (thanks for the help in making that work again btw), and apologies if this question has already been asked before