Comments on: How To Remove devldr32.exe from Windows XP – How I did it!

By: Johnboi

Johnboi — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:01:31 +0000

I can’t thank you enough for this solution, this process has been driving me crazy and slowing down my computer. What you suggested worked and the process is gone so thank you for all of your effort to work this out and for posting it on here for us.

By: L-eon

L-eon — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:03:14 +0000

I followed both procedure but the file persisted. Then I made a search and found this one.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ReinstallBackups003\DriverFiles\i386\devldr32.exe

I removed it along the others and problem solved!!….

But I’d like to know which process is the responsible to keep an eye on the file and restore it in case of removal.

OS: WinXP Pro

By: Aleks

Aleks — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:24:48 +0000

Keith, thanks for usefful info.

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:56:54 +0000

devldr32 – how to remove it:

1. Rename all copies of devldr32 to something else. ( The copy in \system32 will come back. Lord knows where from. VERY suspicious!!!). Don’t worry at this stage.

2. Create a small .txt file using notebook ( just one character of your choice will do). Save it as devldr32.txt to c:\windows\system32 for use in a minute.

3. Shut down; reboot into safe mode with command prompt.

4. At the prompt type cd c:\windows\system32 (changes directory to the one where devldr32.exe lives)

5. Type del devldr32.exe (deletes offending file)

6. Type ren devldr32.txt devldr32.exe (renames your tiny .txt file and fools whatever is recreating it into thinking it’s already there)

7 Type attrib +r devldr.exe (sets the read only attribute to prevent anything deleting it)

8. Reboot normally et voila – no more devldr probs. You might well get wierd errors about NTDVM CPU which are very irritating. Just keep clicking close when you see them. I’m working on curing this issue now so watch this space.

By: Dustie

Dustie — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:13:51 +0000

About How To Remove devldr32.exe

Ive been pulling my hair out trying remove this also. delet never worked.

I found and used your suggestion this morning,,,, been using my computer
all afternoon. So far I have seen no sign of the dreaded devldr32.
thanks for your perserverance, Its gone as of now. it would bring my puter to a screaching halt before.

Thanks,
Dustie

By: admin

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:11:24 +0000

Hi Danny,

The best advice I can give you without being there, is to make sure you have as few programs running as possible (that’s the reason why we go into safe mode). If you also use task manager to stop any other programs that are running you might be able to delete the file then.

Thanks
Chris

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:14:15 +0000

Hi there! I’ve had this problem for about a week and have been trying (in vain) to fix it. Thankfully we have 2 computers, so I was able to use this one to do some research. I just found your page this morning and started following your instructions. It was working just fine until i got to step 3, when I tried to delete the file. I got the usual, “Are you sure you would like to delete this and send it to the recycling bin?” message, and clicked “OK.” Then I got an error message along the lines of, “The file could not be deleted. Check to see if the disk is full or write protected.” I don’t remember exactly what it was. I decided to do a Ctrl+Alt+Delete and saw that the CPU usage was at 100%. I don’t know if that has anything to do with it… Do you have any advice for me as to what I would do? I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks!
Danny