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Removing Mysterious 'Xerox' and 'Nwwia' Folders In WindowsXP

Many people have inquired about two folders that appear in their list of directories - usually on the root of C - without explanation and without the ability to be deleted.  While we cannot tell you anymore about what they are used for than you could determine yourself by Googling the folder names, we can tell you how to remove them.  To date, no one has indicated any adverse impact from doing so.

1.  Do a find on 'sfcfiles'. You need to do the advanced search option, and check 'Search system folders', 'Search hidden files', and 'Search sub folders'

2.  Results will be sfcfiles.dll, in one or more places. Change all their names (highlight the file and hit F2) to sfcfilesBAK.dll. Note: you may receive dire warning messages from Windows telling you that that what you are doing is potentially a serious action - just proceed anyway)

3.  Restart your computer

4.  You may now delete the folders named 'Nwwia', 'Xerox', etc.

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