You are welcome. Glad you got it. Yes, indeed, Xupiter is a dirty rotten
scoundrel & has been known to mess with a certain .dll...

As PA Bear also knows...

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Don't know what is causing your error, but first be sure you do not have
Xupiter installed, as it is associated with many MFC42 errors.

http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#Xupiter

http://www.xupiter.com/uninstall/

You should also install and run Ad-Aware.
Ad-Aware 6 free version:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

....glen
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Len" wrote in message
...
| Thanks for offering help. I believe I have this problem
| fixed. It appears that something called 'Xupiter' placed
| a trojan horse on my system. I had used a freeware
| package called Spybot to track down such things and it
| deleted a file called 'sp.dll'. That is where my problem
| began. At startup I was getting a message that sp.dll
| could not be found and I believe that when the trojan
| horse code was not able to complete it left Internet
| Explorer corrupted. I re-installed IE and used MSCONFIG
| to unflag two lines that read
| 'regedit -s C:\windows\sp.dll'.
| I no longer get the message that 'sp.dll' cannot be found
| and windows explorer seems to be OK. I did a search
| on 'sp.dll' and found lots of hits addressing this
| problem. My resolution came from 'www.dll-files.com'.
|
| Thanks again
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| Does it happen in a clean boot situation...?...
|
| "START button, Run, MSConfig", & turn off the Startup
| Group, Config.sys
| & Autoexec.bat.
|
| (Note: when you later turn them back on, all items in
| them will get
| checked. So, note what may be unchecked first.)
|
| If it does not happen there, then the first suspect may
| actually be your
| virus scanner, especially if you have it set to auto-
| scan. Which one is
| it?
|
|
| --
| Thanks or Good Luck,
| There may be humor in this post, and,
| Naturally, you will not sue,
| should things get worse after this,
| PCR
|
| "Len" wrote in message
| ...
| | I have just encountered this problem. Windows Explorer
| | hangs the entire system when I try to move, copy,
| delete,
| | rename any files. Scandisk seems to go into a loop.
| | Defrag also goes into a loop. The entire system will
| hang
| | up if I right click an icon on my desktop. The only way
| | out of the hangs is to do a power off and back on and
| the
| | scandisk that runs because windows did not properly
| close
| | seems to work fine as does defrag if I run it from a DOS
| | prompt. I have scanned for a virus and found a file
| named
| | winupd.exe to be infected. It was deleted but the
| problem
| | persists. I have re-installed win98 and applied all
| | maintenance for the product that I have. Any ideas, I'm
| | lost.
| |
| | Len
|
|
| .
|