Directory I can't remove - Crescendo

[Guest Jon G]

I have a strange problem. There's a directory on my workstation hard drive

that I can't remove. It's address is c:\windows\crescendo\

 

I have no idea what this is or how it became loaded on my workstation. It's

not a worm, virus or spyware although it may be the result of one. There are

no files in it and it's using relatively no space. However, it has tons if

sub-directories, many with very odd names and therefore I can't delete them.

I've tried everything short of wiping out my hard drive and starting over

which I prefer not to do. Has anyone ever encountered something like this?

How do you get rid of it? Thank you.

[Guest Tim Slattery]

Re: Directory I can't remove - Crescendo

 

Jon G <JonG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have a strange problem. There's a directory on my workstation hard drive

>that I can't remove. It's address is c:\windows\crescendo\

>

>I have no idea what this is or how it became loaded on my workstation. It's

>not a worm, virus or spyware although it may be the result of one. There are

>no files in it and it's using relatively no space. However, it has tons if

>sub-directories, many with very odd names and therefore I can't delete them.

>I've tried everything short of wiping out my hard drive and starting over

>which I prefer not to do. Has anyone ever encountered something like this?

>How do you get rid of it? Thank you.

 

Try opening a console window ("DOS Box"), navigate to c:\windows, and

type:

 

rmdir /s /q crescendo

 

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Tim Slattery

MS MVP(Shell/User)

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