Elevator.exe In Winamp Folder
After dabbling around with several music players in Windows 7 I finally decided to stick with AIMP2. The uninstallation of Winamp turned out to be interesting. The uninstaller noted that not all files in the Winamp folder could be deleted during installation. A quick check revealed that the folder contained the files elevator.exe, elevatorps.dll and nscrt.dll. A simple try to delete those files in the same Windows session turned out to be unsuccessful which led to the initial thought that this could be some kind of successful malware attack on my system which turned out not to be the case.
Having only worked with Winamp under Windows XP I was unaware that Winamp was installing the files elevator.exe and elveatorps.dll for elevation in Windows Vista and apparently Windows 7 as well as this thread at the Winamp forum suggests.
The easiest way to get rid of the files in the same session is by using the following Windows commands in the command line after switching to the directory Winamp was installed in:
elevator.exe /unregserver
regsrv32 /U elevatorps.dll
regsrv32 /U nscrt.dll
It is likely that these files can also be deleted in Windows Explorer after a restart of the computer system. Users who have UAC disabled in Windows can also get rid of these files according to the forum post quoted above.
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