2nd Windows Installation

[Yegg]

No thread will be serious until somebody bans topaz.

Hmm, I'll look into it.

Edit:  Looked, nothing to justify it.  Not even close.  Banning is a privilege I hold for administrators of the entire forum.  Typically this would include unchecked or severe harrassment of others, attacking the forum itself, or disregarding the forum moderators requests for them to change behavior.  What people post in individual forums I trust the moderators to take care of and let me know if they can't get someone to comply, then it's my time for fun, I mean, time to administrate.

It's not that topaz performs evil acts within the forums... it's that he acts like a complete moron practically all of the time, has a high tendency to respond to posts saying "LOL." or "lol." or something similar, and he just makes useless posts on an hourly basis that just annoy the hell out of people. While this is not worth a ban, it would be pretty cool if he didn't do that stuff.

PS. topaz, I've been told by a possibly unlikely source that you're a she? Is this true? I'd like to know for future reference.

[Yegg]

lol @ "possibly unlikely source"

You know, other than the fact that it was discussed in a certain topic and then confirmed

The person who told me is one that I don't rely on all too often. Btw, I do not troll the forums and look at every thread and every post there is. If I did, I would know about this. I don't want to waste my time looking around for any particular thread either.

[Yegg]

Hint: It's in a popular thread

Hint: I probably saw the thread title not knowing what it was, didn't bother to read it because I didn't care what is was, and then forgot that I ever saw it.

[Explicit]

"Tell Us Now!"

[disco]

THE DEAD OR PRARARALYZED THREAD! GOD

[topaz]

Yegg, stop triple posting plz.

[Yegg]

Yegg, stop triple posting plz.

topaz, stop ignoring the fact that my 2nd and 3rd post of those 3 include a quote of a post made by you. Actually, stop posting during your time of the month.. it's not fair for the rest of us.

[topaz]

Yes, because these are the only times I make posts that make fun of you

Pls, less post more think

[topaz]

Dumbass is too busy looking up witty quips to read

[MrRaza]

So I just recently put in Windows Ent. Server 2k3. -- I transfered all my files; (music, pictures, movies, etc.) but now a new problem has arose. I want to remove my previous install of Win2k yet every time I go to delete the system32 folder I get an error;

"Cannot delete Flash9b.ocx: Access is Denied"
Any solutions?

It almost would of been more smart to back up any important documents and files, then formatted to a clean disk, then installed Win2k3 Server, and then copied your files over. Did you install Win2k3 right over Win2k, because I don't think you should be doing that, even if it works. (which it doesn't ) Also, did you install Win2k3 on a different partition than what Win2k was on? If you did that, you can open up Computer Management and format that particular partition through Win2k3 easily. As well, you shouldn't be trying to get rid of Win2k by just deleting the system32 folder.

[Yegg]

So I just recently put in Windows Ent. Server 2k3. -- I transfered all my files; (music, pictures, movies, etc.) but now a new problem has arose. I want to remove my previous install of Win2k yet every time I go to delete the system32 folder I get an error;

"Cannot delete Flash9b.ocx: Access is Denied"
Any solutions?

It almost would of been more smart to back up any important documents and files, then formatted to a clean disk, then installed Win2k3 Server, and then copied your files over. Did you install Win2k3 right over Win2k, because I don't think you should be doing that, even if it works. (which it doesn't ) Also, did you install Win2k3 on a different partition than what Win2k was on? If you did that, you can open up Computer Management and format that particular partition through Win2k3 easily. As well, you shouldn't be trying to get rid of Win2k by just deleting the system32 folder.

He did an upgrade.

Dumbass is too busy looking up witty quips to read

What the hell are you talking about? Really, I've no clue. And by the way, stop double posting.

[Skywing]

So I just recently put in Windows Ent. Server 2k3. -- I transfered all my files; (music, pictures, movies, etc.) but now a new problem has arose. I want to remove my previous install of Win2k yet every time I go to delete the system32 folder I get an error;

"Cannot delete Flash9b.ocx: Access is Denied"
Any solutions?

To inject a bit of useful advice into this thread...:

I would try renaming the file, rebooting, and deleting it.  You can typically rename an image file that is loaded, and then delete it after you have rebooted (guaranteeing that nothing has it loaded and will reload it).

In this instance, you might want to try and `regsvr32 -u flash9b.ocx' before trying the delete/rename trick as a COM-object/ActiveX-specific troubleshooting step to remove any registrations that might be allowing programs to locate and load the DLL.

Another alternative is to use Process Explorer to locate the process(es) responsible for for keeping the DLL in question open.

[Grok]

Good advice.  But if you also find that after renaming and rebooting the file has returned, it could be two processes that are trying to keep itself on your system.  What you should do then is secure the directory(ies) containing the two processes against execute permissions, then reboot and this time log on to another account that has delete permissions.  Then you'll be able to remove the offending processes.  In all the cases I've seen like this, these steps have been sufficient.  A really evil programmer would go even further to keep his code on your system.