Hi Y'all!
Long story so get ready... sorry...
So I did some stupid stuff with Unlocker, (
If you'd like to call this stupid or not!!!)
Here's my issue.
I play GTA IV, and some other games which I did mods to them so they can become unstable at times, but every now and then when one of my games crash I get plagued with the 'Application has stopped working' message.
But I'm serious here, every time, even in the middle of playing when the game was fine, the message would pop up: Gta iv has stopped working.
So I alt+tab a bit until I find my cursor, minimize the minimum error and move on. The game crashes from excess memory hogging, and runs out of memory.
I click 'Close application', 5 seconds later, another 'Grand Theft Auto IV has stopped working' message appears.
I close that out. 5 seconds later, 2 more windows appear, Gtaiv.exe has stopped working etc..
It's a total pain, so like described, I deleted them.
As a workaround, I finally just got SICK AND TIRED of the errors and I used UNLOCKER and deleted the wer.dll and werfault.exe files. Problem fixed!
After messing around with 'Unlock All' 'Unlock' and 'Kill Process' on each svchost.exe or whatever was occupying those files, I finally got that stupid wer fault service to go bye-bye.
But what I didn't know is that Windows is very sensitive of it's files... one file 'needed' or critical to the system (That's not even critical, from what I know) and poof!
Anyways,
After that, Explorer.exe suddenly crashed on me, it (Somehow!) reverted to windows 98 style!!! *censored*...
So then after I let svchost.exe and all restart after moving those files to a special folder in my home folder called 'Backed Up', the Start Menu turned black, as if it was activating Aero but nothing happend.
And I mean Pitch BLACK. All icons and start button were there, just the background color of it was PITCH BLACK, No glass theme or anything.
So out of being scared I might have scarred my Windows and thinking somehow those files were important, I quickly restored them back into the fiery depths of System32 back where they belong. I logged off and logged back on again, and got a report that my 'Event Log' service or whatever couldn't be started, and events will not be logged.
Files I've moved to the 'Backed Up' Folder (basically files removed from System32):- SearchIndexer.exe
- SearchProtocolHost.exe
- wer.dll
- WerFault.exe
Sorry about the whole long story and all, but my main question to this is: Is it safe to delete/move files that are mainly un-needed and cluttering my space from system32? I know it seems obvious not to mess around in system32 as it contains very important files, which, if accidentally selecting the wrong file and removing it, thus, leaving the system inoperable, requiring me to get my Linux booted up again. (I don't essentially
like having to restore files using my Dual-Booted Linux)
So thank you for the information, I know these files are really annoying, but I feel I want to just TURN OFF that stupid Windows Error dialog in Seven, it's actually more annoying than Windows XP's was... Ah, Xp, how I miss your presence so...
Anyways, so yeah that's about it. If you have any questions, please ask! I'm willing to answer.
Thanks!