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Summary: \Program Files\XEROX\NWWIA appears to be a harmless "ghost" file, and there is no need to delete it.
OK, this is one of the weirdest situations I've seen come up in a long time. The short answer is that it does appear to be something related to "Windows Image Acquisition", which is a common component of Windows. Why it shows up empty, and why it remains protected by the operating system is as best we can tell, a mystery. • For what it's worth, it benign. It's on lots of systems, including my own. Using SysInternals Process Explorer I was able to tell that the windows logon process has the directory open. But I was able to find no reference to it in the registry. And apparently when you do manage to delete it, the system file protection service dutifully restores it. There's a long thread on the subject out at the Annoyances.org discussion forum titled Deleting Ghost/Empty Directories that has many theories and a couple of ways to delete it, if that's really important to you. Related:
Article 389 | Posted July 17, 2004 |
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