hard drive with unwanted software.

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I was given a nice fully functional hard drive out of a used computer by a
fellow employee.
He was exasperated that X-Stop - a web browser filter - and it has a password in
it that he did
not know.

I installed the drive, Windows made the needed hardware and system changes fine.
So I now
have the same problem he did. I have tried to remove it. Delete it in the
registry, then open a dos
box and delete the xstop95.exe - but it still lives. When I stop the program
with the task manager
the system goes all wacky.

I suspect the only way is to boot to a floppy, then navigate to the directory
and delete it there.

Any one here deal with this crappy software?

Thanks,
Hank
 
Hank said:
I was given a nice fully functional hard drive out of a used computer by a
fellow employee.
He was exasperated that X-Stop - a web browser filter - and it has a password in
it that he did
not know.

I installed the drive, Windows made the needed hardware and system changes fine.
So I now
have the same problem he did. I have tried to remove it. Delete it in the
registry, then open a dos
box and delete the xstop95.exe - but it still lives. When I stop the program
with the task manager
the system goes all wacky.

I suspect the only way is to boot to a floppy, then navigate to the directory
and delete it there.

Any one here deal with this crappy software?
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Don't know what X-stop is but can't you just delete the partition then
re-create it and format?
Or are you using it as your system drive? With all your friend's software,
settings and data?
 
Don't know what X-stop is but can't you just delete the partition then
re-create it and format?
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Didn't want to go that far. X-stop is a filtering software for xxx sites. It's
a real resouce hog. The computer the drive is in now has no modem connection.
I'd like to keep the original O/S with the drive (he gave the WinME CD with it
as well). When I get this crap off of it, I'll convert it to NTFS for large file
handling.
Or are you using it as your system drive? With all your friend's software,
settings and data?
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I plan on keeping it in this 1 ghz system for processing video/audio files
running
WinME. I don't want to have to get another WinXP if I don't have to.

All of his software is uninstalled. It only works on data now. My other system
is
connected to it via a crossover cable connection.

Hank
 
Hank said:
Didn't want to go that far. X-stop is a filtering software for xxx sites. It's
a real resouce hog. The computer the drive is in now has no modem connection.
I'd like to keep the original O/S with the drive (he gave the WinME CD with it
as well). When I get this crap off of it, I'll convert it to NTFS for large file
handling.
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WinMe does not support NTFS.
 
Hank said:
Didn't want to go that far. X-stop is a filtering software for xxx sites.
It's a real resouce hog. The computer the drive is in now has no modem
connection. I'd like to keep the original O/S with the drive (he gave the
WinME CD with it as well). When I get this crap off of it, I'll convert it
to NTFS for large file handling.
Click to expand...

Can't use NTFS with ME.



ME is a really poor OS, the worst of the worst. ANYTHING is better than
using ME! That said I'd at least give it the best chance of working by
giving it a fresh install.
 
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