POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Windows XP question, kinda dumb : Re: Windows XP question, kinda dumb Server Time
1 Jul 2024 01:22:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Windows XP question, kinda dumb  
From: Rick [Kitty5]
Date: 27 Oct 2002 14:30:30
Message: <3dbc3ed6@news.povray.org>
Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
> Peter Popov wrote:
>> Sorry for the dumb question, but how do I delete Notepad in Windows
>> XP?
>
> Open Regedit.exe and navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE
> \Microsoft \Windows NT \CurrentVersion \Winlogon]. You should see a
> DWORD value named "SFCDisable" with a value of "0". Change the value
> to "ffffff9d", Swap notepad.exe with your editor of choice, put reg
> back and reboot again.
>
> Backup notepad.exe before you start in case it doesn't work, oh and
> if it kills your PC, it aint my fault :)

Forgot to mention, reboot after you have tweaked the reg before you try to
swap notepad.
--
Rick

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