I assume you did a virus scan with an up to date program. More health
checks:

Spyware/scumware/adware are causing numerous system problems. I recommend
you download and use the following programs and consider removing everything
these programs identify:

AdAwa http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

CWShredder: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html (download
link near the bottom)

Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/

Here is a real graphics viewer: Irfanview: A very good freeware graphics
viewer: http://www.irfanview.com/


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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"Billy" wrote in message
...
Hello all! Wondered if anyone could help. I've recently
started to have problems opening files (mainly image files
but sometimes text files too). When I try to open them it
takes 2 mins or so for it to actually happen. I've run
health checks and defragmented etc but to no avail. When
I'm online and try to open images previously downloaded I
have no problems. Also, the problem seems to disappear
once I come offline too. When I start up Windows I
sometimes get the following message:

RUNDLL - Error loading C:\WINDOWS\IMAGES.new
A Dynamic link library (DLL) initialisation routine failed.

OK. But what does that mean? Can I fix it? Help!

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks, B.