See ???What to Do
When Windows Won??™t Start,??? in Chapter 6, for details on getting to the Safe
Mode with Command Prompt, one of the options in Windows??™ F8 menu.
Once you??™re there, use the del command (see Chapter 9) to delete the file.
When that??™s done, close the Command Prompt window, or type exit and
press Enter to restart your PC and load Windows.
Solution 2: Use Wininit.ini
If you don??™t want to use the Command Prompt, you can use another littleknown
trick that takes advantage of a feature used by application installers
to replace program files.
First, open Windows Explorer and navigate to your C:\Windows folder.
Double-click the Wininit.ini file to open it in Notepad (or any other standard
plain-text editor).
If the file isn??™t there, just create a new empty text file, name it Wininit.ini,
and type the following line at the top:
[rename]
(In most cases, the Wininit.ini file will exist but will be empty, with the
exception of the [rename] line; any other lines you see here would??™ve been
added by a recent application installation.)
Under the [rename] section header, type the following line:
NUL=c:\folder\filename.ext
where c:\folder\filename.ext is the full path and filename of the file you wish
to delete. You can specify as many files here as you want, one on each line.
To replace a file rather than simply deleting it, the syntax is a little different:
c:\folder\existing.ext=c:\folder\replacement.ext
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where c:\folder\existing.
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