Guest glen vw Posted September 6, 2007 Posted September 6, 2007 I'm running windows XP home edition on my notebook and receive an error message on startup: RUNDLL: error loading C:\windows\system32\mchftpax.dll the specified module could not be found. I can click the ok button to go past, but would like to find out the reason and try to correct it if possible. Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you, Glen
Guest Elmo Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Re: RUNDLL startup error message glen vw wrote: > I'm running windows XP home edition on my notebook and receive an error > message on startup: > > RUNDLL: > error loading C:\windows\system32\mchftpax.dll > the specified module could not be found. > > I can click the ok button to go past, but would like to find out the reason > and try to correct it if possible. Any help/suggestions are greatly > appreciated. > > Thank you, > Glen A Google Groups search showed no mention of that file, other than your post. That suggests that some malware was removed, but the reference to the file was not removed from the registry. Click Start, Run, type REGEDIT, click OK. Press the Home key, press F3, type the name of the file into the search pane. Click "Find Next", and when located, delete the reference to the file. Press F3 to continue the search. You can click File, Export, and save the entry to the Desktop, attach the file to a post in this thread; someone might note whether it's safe to delete first. If you remove it and there's a problem, double-click the .reg file you exported to the Desktop and it'll be added to the registry again. You can create a restore point before editing the registry too. If the file is mentioned with another file such as "C:\Windows\Explorer.exe mchftpax.dll" you'll have to edit the entry to remove mchftpax.dll from that line. Please free to post questions on whatever you find. -- Joe =o)
Guest glen vw Posted September 8, 2007 Posted September 8, 2007 Re: RUNDLL startup error message thank you for the response, I went into REGEDIT and did a search for mchftpax.dll but nothing came up. Not sure what else to try. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Glen "Elmo" wrote: > glen vw wrote: > > I'm running windows XP home edition on my notebook and receive an error > > message on startup: > > > > RUNDLL: > > error loading C:\windows\system32\mchftpax.dll > > the specified module could not be found. > > > > I can click the ok button to go past, but would like to find out the reason > > and try to correct it if possible. Any help/suggestions are greatly > > appreciated. > > > > Thank you, > > Glen > > A Google Groups search showed no mention of that file, other than your > post. That suggests that some malware was removed, but the reference to > the file was not removed from the registry. > > Click Start, Run, type REGEDIT, click OK. Press the Home key, press F3, > type the name of the file into the search pane. Click "Find Next", and > when located, delete the reference to the file. Press F3 to continue > the search. > > You can click File, Export, and save the entry to the Desktop, attach > the file to a post in this thread; someone might note whether it's safe > to delete first. If you remove it and there's a problem, double-click > the .reg file you exported to the Desktop and it'll be added to the > registry again. You can create a restore point before editing the > registry too. > > If the file is mentioned with another file such as > "C:\Windows\Explorer.exe mchftpax.dll" you'll have to edit the entry to > remove mchftpax.dll from that line. Please free to post questions on > whatever you find. > > -- > Joe =o) >
Guest Elmo Posted September 8, 2007 Posted September 8, 2007 Re: RUNDLL startup error message glen vw wrote: > thank you for the response, I went into REGEDIT and did a search for > mchftpax.dll but nothing came up. Not sure what else to try. Any other > suggestions? > > Thanks, > Glen > > > > "Elmo" wrote: > >> glen vw wrote: >>> I'm running windows XP home edition on my notebook and receive an error >>> message on startup: >>> >>> RUNDLL: >>> error loading C:\windows\system32\mchftpax.dll >>> the specified module could not be found. >>> >>> I can click the ok button to go past, but would like to find out the reason >>> and try to correct it if possible. Any help/suggestions are greatly >>> appreciated. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Glen >> A Google Groups search showed no mention of that file, other than your >> post. That suggests that some malware was removed, but the reference to >> the file was not removed from the registry. >> >> Click Start, Run, type REGEDIT, click OK. Press the Home key, press F3, >> type the name of the file into the search pane. Click "Find Next", and >> when located, delete the reference to the file. Press F3 to continue >> the search. >> >> You can click File, Export, and save the entry to the Desktop, attach >> the file to a post in this thread; someone might note whether it's safe >> to delete first. If you remove it and there's a problem, double-click >> the .reg file you exported to the Desktop and it'll be added to the >> registry again. You can create a restore point before editing the >> registry too. >> >> If the file is mentioned with another file such as >> "C:\Windows\Explorer.exe mchftpax.dll" you'll have to edit the entry to >> remove mchftpax.dll from that line. Please free to post questions on >> whatever you find. Click Start, Run, type MSCONFIG, click OK. Look in Startup tab, System.INI tab, and Win.INI tab for any reference to the file. -- Joe =o)
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