I'm working on a friend's machine that was pretty heavily virus & spy infected. The _Restore directory is huge, and I want to deltree it. Restore is marked as disabled in the configuration manager, but the directory is still protected. If I boot to a ME/DOS bootdisk, change to the _Restore directory, and try to run the DIR command, the machine bogs down after the first few hundred files are displayed. I tried to deltree the directory, and the machine ran all night and did not complete. Is it simply a (lack of) memory deal? My DOS experience is slightly above the Novice level, but I never had DOS bog down on internal commands like this. Thoughts?

Make sure 2have SMARTDRV loaded b4 using DELTREE! Ucan copyit from C:\WINDOWS 2 your bootdisk Onward to the APOCALYPSE!

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