Sol.exe Won't Go Away!

[gnosis13]

I am relatively new to XP Pro. I support some new IBM Netvistas that are in a factory production environment. The employees have been playing the games rather than doing their jobs. In the past, on 2000 & NT machines, I would uninstall or just delete the games, especially sol.exe. When I delete the files on the XP machines, they reappear a few seconds later. I can even uninstall them, the files will be gone...go to Start >> Run type in sol.exe and not only will the game run, the file will reappear....%#$@~$%$$

What can I do to make these files go away for good? I have a "sol.exe" that is a vb exe that I created that writes to a log file when someone tries to run the game. It works great under NT or 2000 but if I put it on one of the XP machines, it will be overwritten by the real sol.exe if someone tries to run the game....&$#@$ A+, N+, MCP

 

[Scrye]

Try this:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/columns/profwin/DEFAULT.asp

Hope it helps!

 

[Sue11]

I followed the link, and couldn't find anything helpful. Could you be more specific? Thanks-

 

[bcastner]

Try this link:

http://www.mvps.org/ecvogel/kb/XP_remove_progs.htm

 

[linney]

Maybe you could use the Recovery Console and Delete Sol.exe from the System32 folder and its automatic replacement from the System32/ DllCache folder.

HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console for Windows XP (Q307654)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q307/6/54.asp