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How to disable Windows File Protection?
Name: fox Date: October 16, 2001 at 00:12:00 Pacific
Name: Booger Date: October 16, 2001 at 01:24:15 Pacific
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Run "Services" from Admin tools. There you can find and STOP the "Protected Storage" then you can delete most files. If windows asks for your CD don't give it, but select you want to keep the files like you just made them.
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Response Number 2
Name: fox Date: October 16, 2001 at 02:06:49 Pacific
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nah, not really. i tried that. i don't know about your experiences, but i tell you mine. i want to delete tour.exe file from /help/mmTour/ dir. of course wfp prevents this, apparently this damn flash anim is essential for windows to run. if i stop "protected storage" (which description is far from what i'd expect it to be if it's about WFP) - nothing really happens. tour.exe still demonically appears again. are we talking the same thing ?
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Response Number 3
Name: Booger Date: October 16, 2001 at 04:45:33 Pacific
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Ahh, I see. Well here's what I did to that one... Just go into teh Tour folder and delete all the files, it's just the fodler itself that cant be removed. At least on my system, I now only have an empty Tour folder which is not too bothersome :-)
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Response Number 4
Name: fred Date: October 16, 2001 at 05:17:11 Pacific
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i just tried to rename tour.exe to tour.ex0 & it worked i was also able to delete it with no problem
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Response Number 5
Name: fox Date: October 17, 2001 at 00:27:18 Pacific
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temporary solution: boot in safe mode and delete files. doesn't work on dirs though. xp will resurrect them later.
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Response Number 6
Name: Seiji Date: October 17, 2001 at 20:44:33 Pacific
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to disable windows file protection run regedit and goto
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