sick c drive

When I log on to my computer I get this pop up that say "unable to write to C:\documents and settings\all users\application data\mcafee\spamkiller\mskdetct.dat." What can I do to fix this? It started a few days ago when I was trying to delete all the McAfee files from my computer.

 

did you try to remove McAfee from your system with its' uninstall utility or through add/remove in the control panel or did you just delete the folder containing the files?

 

I did a search of all mcAfee files and tried deleting them that way. The computer is an e machines xp

 

use add/remove control panel, that's how your supposed to remove software.

 

well I didn't use the add/remove in the control panel and now I'm getting the Unable to write in c... message that I need to know how to fix

 

The conventional fix is to reinstall the program, then I would reboot just to be on the safe side and then Uninstall as suggested above. If that doesn't work then I would use msconfig to dig any start instructions out of startups and then the hard part getting all the remainder out of your registry.
Regcleaner is what I use although it is no longer freeware. Regseeker (available this site as far as I know ) is also pretty good and is freeware.
Both programs save whatever is detected as superfluous as a backup for reinstall if the computer spits the dummy.
But really reinstall and uninstall properly is the best and safest option
Hope this helps
Robert

 

Thanks for the suggestion Robert, I'll give it a try. Anyone esle have any othe suggestions?

 

nope.. that's exactly what I would have suggested.