Microsoft Security Essentials and Win XP

[TouEnMasm]

Hello,
For those who have Win xp,this antivirus add a message who say:
"Win XP will die ..." and so on.
Is there a way to disable this message ?.

[dedndave]

malwarebytes usually gets rid of them

https://www.malwarebytes.org/

[qWord]

It is time to say goodbye... 

[jj2007]

No such message here, with XP SP3 and MSE active. Maybe I should allow Windows to update once in a while... although, my hard drive is already at the limit ::)

[Vortex]

Also, MS released a patch notifying the end of XP support :

http://www.scmagazine.com/pop-ups-to-signal-the-coming-end-of-windows-xp-support/article/336777/

[dedndave]

29% are still using XP   

[Magnum]

No such message here, with XP SP3 and MSE active. Maybe I should allow Windows to update once in a while... although, my hard drive is already at the limit ::)

I would not bother.

Do you want to trust those guys. :-)

Andy

[sinsi]

It's an update that gives the message, not MSE (from what I've seen).

Maybe I should allow Windows to update once in a while... although, my hard drive is already at the limit ::)

Wait until April, that's the last updates XP will ever get. If you are running out of space you can delete all those $NT_uninstall$ folders in Windows.

[jj2007]

If you are running out of space you can delete all those $NT_uninstall$ folders in Windows.

I've done that in October 2013... any safe candidates in here?
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET  <<< 700 MB
C:\WINDOWS\I386
C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles  << 472 MB
C:\WINDOWS\assembly
C:\WINDOWS\Installer
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts
C:\WINDOWS\Help
C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache  << 118 MB

[sinsi]

"ServicePackFiles" and "Driver Cache" are good candidates for removal, the others not so good (system32? good luck with that you troll jj).
Rename both folders and see how it goes for a week. If no problems then delete them.

You could also try disk cleanup, it can be surprisingly effective.

BTW, Microsoft will only support MSE on XP for another 12 months...

[jj2007]

"ServicePackFiles" and "Driver Cache" are good candidates for removal,

I've renamed them now, also assembly and installer

(system32? good luck with that).

sinsi, I know I can't delete it, all my malware depends on this folder 8)

[Vortex]

Hi Jochen,

You can reclaim a lot of space by removing the folder :

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C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution

This is the folder where the Windows updated are stored. First, you need to stop the update service :

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net stop wuauserv

After removing the folder :

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net start wuauserv

Also, you can delete the content of the folders below :

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C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch
C:\WINDOWS\Temp

[jj2007]

Thanks, Sinsi & Erol. Will try all that ;-)

I renamed C:\WINDOWS\assembly:

Booting was fine, but it gets recreated e.g. by Visual C++ Express, currently at 87MB instead of the 341 of the renamed version. MS Word & Excel work fine and didn't add anything to the folder.

In this confused MSDN blog on the assembly folder, they say that .NET apps need it, but they are unclear about whether it's harmful or not to just delete it.

See also mscorsvw.exe is precompiling .NET assemblies in the background

[Vortex]

Hi Jochen,

I know the mscorsvw.exe problem. The CPU is reaching 99% usage after installing .NET Framework. ( It must be version 2 or 3 , I don't remember well. )

You can also delete system restore points if you don't need them.

[dedndave]

mscoresvw.exe runs until .NET is done building the assemblies
it will go away after a while   :P