Sony = Uninstalling VAIO Programs ???

hi

yep thats correct.

run them seperately please. i would also reboot between them


and

Microsoft product keys does not contain any of the following characters:
Numbers 0, 1 and 5
Letters A, E, I, L, N, O, S, U, and Z


Roy

torchwood said:

Microsoft product keys does not contain any of the following characters:
Numbers 0, 1 and 5
Letters A, E, I, L, N, O, S, U, and Z


Roy

That is interesting to know; of course knowing now makes me wonder why they don't use those particular ones.
I can understand and appreciate them not using 0 and O, 5 and S, and 1 and I; that leaves A, E, L, N, U, and Z to wonder about.

torchwood said:

run the 3 standard repair tools
sfc /scannow

Results of sfc /scannow "Windows Resource Protection did not find any Integrity Violations"

Now moving on to chkdsk

BuckSkin said:

Thanks !

I had not even thought about SAFE mode.

I went all the way to the bottom of that folder and deleted hundreds of various things, mostly dll files; and have it narrowed down to maybe five remaining files that are still holding tight.

One thing I forgot to mention, after I got everything gone save for that one stubborn folder in Program Data, when I restart, I get a message saying "This process was unable to something or other"; it does not give a clue as to what, which, or how.
I "X" away the message and everything works fine.

Whatever those few little files left in that folder are doing doesn't seem to negatively affect anything; but, it just worries me something fierce that they are still there.

This is because a DLL you removed was auto starting and now it's gone. Like I said, a service or an autorun something or other is the reason. If you go back and read my post you might be able to figure it out.

chkdsk finally finished.

At each step of five, it gave a clean bill of health (as best I could understand).

One or both of these operations sure did take care of something and created a new mystery in the process.

As I have already described, I had a stubborn Norton folder in the Program Data folder that was dug in like a tick on a dog's ear.

Also, at each restart, there would be a message box saying something about a program couldn't do it's thing.

After running the sfc scannow and subsequent restart, the error message box did not show up.

After running chkdsk and restart, the error message box still stayed away ----- and ----- seeing as how the error box had went away, I checked to see if maybe I could now delete that stubborn folder that was in the Program Data folder.

I looked in (C:), right in there where I knew the way by heart, and --- lo and behold --- I no longer even had a Program Data folder ----- nothing - zip - completely vanquished into the elements.

No Program Data folder and therefore no stubborn Norton folder.

I would have swore there were other non-Norton folders in the Program Data folder; if there were, I hope they weren't important, because they're for certain and sure gone now.

I have played around with it and everything seems to click along quite lively; enough time will tell - I guess.