It would be helpful to know your operating system. I run Win 98 and do not have this file. What you are being told is that this file is set to load at startup and either actively run or run in the background for you. There is a problem with carrying this instruction out. You do not say if you are able to bypass the error message and boot into Windows, or if the boot process ends at the error message. If you can boot into Windows by OKing out of the error message, then go to Start | Find | Files or Folders. Name the file exactly in the field and, if you have more than one partition, begin by searching the C: drive for this file. While you can check all local drives, this would be a lengthy process on a large drive with several partitions, so I check partition by partition and hard drive by hard drive. When (if) you find the file, highlight it, right-click it, Choose Properties, and see if you can tell what application the file came from. Alternatively, go to Start | Run | enter msconfig in the field and OK the run. Choose the Startup tab and attempt to locate this file in the path statements which are given. It may tell you the application the file is coming from. OK out and decide what needs to be done with the application: if it's a Windows file from Win ME, a system restoration may be in order. If it's from another application, then possibly the application needs to be uninstalled, then reinstalled, or perhaps you had previously uninstalled it, but not everything went with the uninstall.
If you cannot bypass the error and boot into Windows, attempt to boot into Safe Mode and check the situation out.
I found one reference to this file on the internet, and that was at a foreign language site as a list of installed files on someone's hard drive, so was not helpful to me in determining the source of the file.
KayH
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Posted April 23rd, 2001 12:00
Hi,
It would be helpful to know your operating system. I run Win 98 and do not have this file. What you are being told is that this file is set to load at startup and either actively run or run in the background for you. There is a problem with carrying this instruction out. You do not say if you are able to bypass the error message and boot into Windows, or if the boot process ends at the error message. If you can boot into Windows by OKing out of the error message, then go to Start | Find | Files or Folders. Name the file exactly in the field and, if you have more than one partition, begin by searching the C: drive for this file. While you can check all local drives, this would be a lengthy process on a large drive with several partitions, so I check partition by partition and hard drive by hard drive. When (if) you find the file, highlight it, right-click it, Choose Properties, and see if you can tell what application the file came from. Alternatively, go to Start | Run | enter msconfig in the field and OK the run. Choose the Startup tab and attempt to locate this file in the path statements which are given. It may tell you the application the file is coming from. OK out and decide what needs to be done with the application: if it's a Windows file from Win ME, a system restoration may be in order. If it's from another application, then possibly the application needs to be uninstalled, then reinstalled, or perhaps you had previously uninstalled it, but not everything went with the uninstall.
If you cannot bypass the error and boot into Windows, attempt to boot into Safe Mode and check the situation out.
I found one reference to this file on the internet, and that was at a foreign language site as a list of installed files on someone's hard drive, so was not helpful to me in determining the source of the file.
Edited to clear typos.
Kay
Message Edited on 04/23/01 09:51AM by KayH