removing dll's from windows 2000 placed by cool web search

[Charles Hicks]

I've located two dll files in the c:\winnt\system32\
subdirectory that keep regenerating even in safe mode.
Regsvr32 /u does not unregister the dll's and I'm unable
to delete the files because they are "being used by
windows"

Any suggestions on how to get rid of these files.

 

[John]

Try a simple autoexec.bat file that renames them.

 

[Gary Smith]

That's not going to help much because Win2K doesn't use autoexec.bat. To
remove the files, try this:

MoveFile.exe and PendMoves.exe freeware for files in use
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBQ/tip8100/rh8107.htm

 

[George Hester]

When you say "regenerating" you might want to investigate what that means. Files do not "regenerate." They can be copied from somewhere to somewhere else but they do not regenerate.

If a file "regenerates" you better be darn sure they are what you think they are. Windows 2000 has what is called System File Protection and it will "regenerate" files just as you've seen when its a System file removed or becomes corrupted. They are "regenerated" from C:\WINNT\system32\dllcache or C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles.

Even though the coolwebsearch dlls can have a multitude of names they are actually quite obvious. And you can unregister them. They are VB dlls which always have the LoadLibrary entry-point function in them which is what is required to regsvr32 (and un-regsvr32) them.