pgpsdk.vxd error

When powering up my laptop (windows 98) a message comes up with 'Can't
find a device file that may be needed to run windows or a win
application'. Then after a few more lines about if it was deleted on
purpose etc. a new line comes up with:
pgpsdk.vxd
Then 'press a key to continue'
After pressing the 'enter' key everything loads up as normal.
Can someone please tell me what I need to do to totally remove this
message every time I turn the laptop on.

~Thankyou

Des

Des "Person" wrote in message
...

When powering up my laptop (windows 98) a message comes up with 'Can't
find a device file that may be needed to run windows or a win
application'. Then after a few more lines about if it was deleted on
purpose etc. a new line comes up with:
pgpsdk.vxd
Then 'press a key to continue'
After pressing the 'enter' key everything loads up as normal.
Can someone please tell me what I need to do to totally remove this
message every time I turn the laptop on.

Files (dud or removed or unnecessary) called at
boot may be called directly from the Registry (so
file calls must be removed via REGEDIT) but are
more often called by either WIN.INI or SYSTEM.INI
both conveniently displayed for editing via MSCONFIG.

You can start by searching alll *.INI files for the string
pgpsdk

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

In at ,
Person contemplated and posted:
| When powering up my laptop (windows 98) a message comes up with 'Can't
| find a device file that may be needed to run windows or a win
| application'. Then after a few more lines about if it was deleted on
| purpose etc. a new line comes up with:
| pgpsdk.vxd
| Then 'press a key to continue'
| After pressing the 'enter' key everything loads up as normal.
| Can someone please tell me what I need to do to totally remove this
| message every time I turn the laptop on.
|
| ~Thankyou
|
| Des

Check for a version of PGP which may have been installed in your system.
Look in Control Panel Add/Remove Programs - for the PGP program{s}

If none can be found installed then you may have a failed installation or
un-installation. Check using MSInfo32 or MSConfig for entries related to PGP
and disable them. If this takes care of the issue, re-enable them, download
and run autoruns from Microsoft Tech Net and remove the entries premanently
or use something like RegSeeker to search for those entries and remove from
there..


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MEB
http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com
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In message , MEB
writes
In at ,
Person contemplated and posted:
| When powering up my laptop (windows 98) a message comes up with 'Can't
| find a device file that may be needed to run windows or a win
| application'. Then after a few more lines about if it was deleted on
| purpose etc. a new line comes up with:
| pgpsdk.vxd
| Then 'press a key to continue'
| After pressing the 'enter' key everything loads up as normal.
| Can someone please tell me what I need to do to totally remove this
| message every time I turn the laptop on.
|
| ~Thankyou
|
| Des

Check for a version of PGP which may have been installed in your system.
Look in Control Panel Add/Remove Programs - for the PGP program{s}

If none can be found installed then you may have a failed installation or
un-installation. Check using MSInfo32 or MSConfig for entries related to PGP
and disable them. If this takes care of the issue, re-enable them, download
and run autoruns from Microsoft Tech Net and remove the entries premanently
or use something like RegSeeker to search for those entries and remove from
there..


--
MEB
http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com

Hi, nothing in add/remove programs that indicate any PGP programs. Don't
know how to use MSInfo32 or MSConfig for entries related to PGP. Can you
please tell me how to do it?

Thankyou

--
Des

You apparently recently uninstalled a program that uses pgpsdk.vxd, which
indicates that it built by someone using the PGP Software Development Kit,
which tells me not that it's PGP itself but rather some other program that
uses PGP in part.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pgpsdk.vxd

What application did you recently install or uninstall?

Since we don't know if it is somethine you recently installed or
uninstalled, it may be something that is still installed but broken. So
let's do some searching and see what comes up.

Use StartFindFiles & Folders and do the following search:
Named: *.INI
Containing Text (second box in Find) put: PGPSDK

If one is found, open the file (just double-click it), use Search to look
for PGPSDK, then copy that section and paste it here for instructions.

If no results, go to StartRun box, type in REGEDIT, press OK. Then use
EditFind to search for PGPSDK. If located, click on File, then Export and
save the file to the Desktop as pgpsdk_1.reg (leave REGEDIT open.) Then
right-click the new REG file and Edit. Use Ctrl-A to Select All, then Ctrl-C
to copy, then open a Reply to this message and use Ctrl-V to Paste in the
data. Then go back to REGEDIT and press F3 to continue searching. If you
find more, Export the item. adding numbers to the filenames: pgpsdk_2.reg,
for example. Then copy/paste the data here.

If there are still no results, try putting *.* in the Named box and PGPSDK
in the Containing text box. It will take a long time.

Again... What have you recently installed or uninstalled?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Person" wrote in message
...
When powering up my laptop (windows 98) a message comes up with 'Can't
find a device file that may be needed to run windows or a win
application'. Then after a few more lines about if it was deleted on
purpose etc. a new line comes up with:
pgpsdk.vxd
Then 'press a key to continue'
After pressing the 'enter' key everything loads up as normal.
Can someone please tell me what I need to do to totally remove this
message every time I turn the laptop on.

~Thankyou

Des

In at ,
Person contemplated and posted:
| In message , MEB
| writes
|In at ,
|Person contemplated and posted:
|| When powering up my laptop (windows 98) a message comes up with
|| 'Can't find a device file that may be needed to run windows or a win
|| application'. Then after a few more lines about if it was deleted
|| on purpose etc. a new line comes up with:
|| pgpsdk.vxd
|| Then 'press a key to continue'
|| After pressing the 'enter' key everything loads up as normal.
|| Can someone please tell me what I need to do to totally remove this
|| message every time I turn the laptop on.
||
|| ~Thankyou
||
|| Des
|
| Check for a version of PGP which may have been installed in your
|system. Look in Control Panel Add/Remove Programs - for the PGP
|program{s}
|
| If none can be found installed then you may have a failed
|installation or un-installation. Check using MSInfo32 or MSConfig for
|entries related to PGP and disable them. If this takes care of the
|issue, re-enable them, download and run autoruns from Microsoft Tech
|Net and remove the entries premanently or use something like
|RegSeeker to search for those entries and remove from there..
|
|
|--
| MEB
| http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com
|
| Hi, nothing in add/remove programs that indicate any PGP programs.
| Don't know how to use MSInfo32 or MSConfig for entries related to
| PGP. Can you please tell me how to do it?
|
| Thankyou

Gary has suggested some additional search activities and questions. As he
has indicated, it would be instrumental to know what you installed or
un-installed prior to more information on how to remove the registry or
other entries.

That you found no entry in Add/Remove Programs; means either you are
unaware of PGP ever being installed, or have un-installed something recently
which contained it as part of the security within that program.
That file is used in PGP activities [encryption or other] so it may be wise
to first determine whether you might have encrypted areas or other that
might need converted back to normal or otherwise delicately removed.

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MEB
http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com
--
_________

In message , Gary S. Terhune
writes

I've had this issue for ages. The only thing I can think of was
something that I removed/uninstalled that was part of my e-mail program
(Turnpike) that I didn't need.

You apparently recently uninstalled a program that uses pgpsdk.vxd, which
indicates that it built by someone using the PGP Software Development Kit,
which tells me not that it's PGP itself but rather some other program that
uses PGP in part.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pgpsdk.vxd

What application did you recently install or uninstall?

Since we don't know if it is somethine you recently installed or
uninstalled, it may be something that is still installed but broken. So
let's do some searching and see what comes up.

Use StartFindFiles & Folders and do the following search:
Named: *.INI
Containing Text (second box in Find) put: PGPSDK

If one is found, open the file (just double-click it), use Search to look
for PGPSDK, then copy that section and paste it here for instructions.

If no results, go to StartRun box, type in REGEDIT, press OK. Then use
EditFind to search for PGPSDK. If located, click on File, then Export and
save the file to the Desktop as pgpsdk_1.reg (leave REGEDIT open.) Then
right-click the new REG file and Edit. Use Ctrl-A to Select All, then Ctrl-C
to copy, then open a Reply to this message and use Ctrl-V to Paste in the
data. Then go back to REGEDIT and press F3 to continue searching. If you
find more, Export the item. adding numbers to the filenames: pgpsdk_2.reg,
for example. Then copy/paste the data here.

If there are still no results, try putting *.* in the Named box and PGPSDK
in the Containing text box. It will take a long time.

Again... What have you recently installed or uninstalled?


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Des

Well, then, what of the rest of the instructions I gave you? That's how you
maybe will find the load-driver command that was left behind.

Turnpike definitely had PGP.
http://www.google.com/search?q=pgpsdk+Turnpike

That Google link I gave you earlier was off. It should be:
http://www.google.com/search?q=pgpsdk

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"Des" wrote in message
...
In message , Gary S. Terhune
writes

I've had this issue for ages. The only thing I can think of was
something that I removed/uninstalled that was part of my e-mail program
(Turnpike) that I didn't need.

You apparently recently uninstalled a program that uses pgpsdk.vxd, which
indicates that it built by someone using the PGP Software Development Kit,
which tells me not that it's PGP itself but rather some other program that
uses PGP in part.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pgpsdk.vxd

What application did you recently install or uninstall?

Since we don't know if it is somethine you recently installed or
uninstalled, it may be something that is still installed but broken. So
let's do some searching and see what comes up.

Use StartFindFiles & Folders and do the following search:
Named: *.INI
Containing Text (second box in Find) put: PGPSDK

If one is found, open the file (just double-click it), use Search to look
for PGPSDK, then copy that section and paste it here for instructions.

If no results, go to StartRun box, type in REGEDIT, press OK. Then use
EditFind to search for PGPSDK. If located, click on File, then Export and
save the file to the Desktop as pgpsdk_1.reg (leave REGEDIT open.) Then
right-click the new REG file and Edit. Use Ctrl-A to Select All, then
Ctrl-C
to copy, then open a Reply to this message and use Ctrl-V to Paste in the
data. Then go back to REGEDIT and press F3 to continue searching. If you
find more, Export the item. adding numbers to the filenames: pgpsdk_2.reg,
for example. Then copy/paste the data here.

If there are still no results, try putting *.* in the Named box and PGPSDK
in the Containing text box. It will take a long time.

Again... What have you recently installed or uninstalled?


--
Des

In message , Gary S. Terhune
writes
Well, then, what of the rest of the instructions I gave you? That's how you
maybe will find the load-driver command that was left behind.

Turnpike definitely had PGP.
http://www.google.com/search?q=pgpsdk+Turnpike

That Google link I gave you earlier was off. It should be:
http://www.google.com/search?q=pgpsdk



Hi, I'm not using the laptop (too slow) with the problem to send this
message. Re-typed as is.

Thankyou


1st search below

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Doc
Find Spec MRU]
"a"=""
"MRUList"="jabgihfedc"
"b"="*.pgpsdk"
"c"="*.pdr"
"d"="system.ini"
"e"="registry"
"f"="speed"
"g"="cookies"
"h"="misc"
"i"="pocketpc"
"j"="*.ini"


2nd search

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServices
-]
"PGPSDKSVC"="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\PGPsdkServ.e xe"
"PGPSERVICE"="C:\\Program Files\\Network Associates\\PGP for windows
98\\PGPservice.exe"

3rd search (same as 2nd search)
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Des

Person wrote:
| In message , Gary S. Terhune
| writes
|Well, then, what of the rest of the instructions I gave you? That's
|how you maybe will find the load-driver command that was left behind.
|
|Turnpike definitely had PGP.
|http://www.google.com/search?q=pgpsdk+Turnpike
|
|That Google link I gave you earlier was off. It should be:
|http://www.google.com/search?q=pgpsdk
|
|
|
| Hi, I'm not using the laptop (too slow) with the problem to send this
| message. Re-typed as is.
|
| Thankyou
|
|
| 1st search below
|
| REGEDIT4
|
|
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Do
c
| Find Spec MRU]
| "a"=""
| "MRUList"="jabgihfedc"
| "b"="*.pgpsdk"
| "c"="*.pdr"
| "d"="system.ini"
| "e"="registry"
| "f"="speed"
| "g"="cookies"
| "h"="misc"
| "i"="pocketpc"
| "j"="*.ini"

That one is OK. It is a harmless MRU (Most Recently Used) list of the
items you can see by clicking the down-arrow for "Named" at the Windows
Find requestor ("START button, Find, F/F").

NOTE: Try a find on: pgpsdk*.* (no quotes).

| 2nd search
|
| REGEDIT4
|
|
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunService
s
| -]
| "PGPSDKSVC"="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\PGPsdkServ.e xe"
| "PGPSERVICE"="C:\\Program Files\\Network Associates\\PGP for windows
| 98\\PGPservice.exe"

Those also are causing no harm. They are two items you have unchecked at
"START button, Run, MSConfig, Startup tab". It's sloppy to leave it like
that, though. If you never intend to check them again in MSConfig, then
you may delete them in RegEdit. Just R-Clk them in the R-Pane, & select
"Delete". They will no longer show up as unchecked items in MSConfig,
then. Or, do as stated below if it applies.

| 3rd search (same as 2nd search)

That shouldn't be. You must have have begun the search from the top of
RegEdit to get that again. You must, instead, continue searching from
the point you left off. When the bottom of the registry is reached, you
will be informed with: "Finished searching through the registry."

Or can it be the 3rd search really showed the same thing-- EXCEPT for
that minus sign at the end of Runservices-? That's a different key, & it
would mean the items show up TWICE in MSConfig-- & one set of them is
checked. In that case...

(a) Check all 4 of them in MSConfig.
(b) Click "Apply", & then click "OK".
You will get a message asking whether to restart.
(c) Answer "No" to the message.

After that, you will be left with only 2 of the 4-- the two that are
checked. Follow Terhune's instructions on how to get rid of the those
two. The unchecked ones will be gone from the registry too.

| --
| Des

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Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
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