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DKabppls.exe
This file in Windows/system (312KB) opens on startup (Win98 6.0).
Strangely, I can't find any mention of it on GOOGLE or Microsoft Help. Is it a 'legit' program ? Do I need it ? Do I need it to run on startup ? The reason I'm asking is there are 2 'windows' that hang up this computer on shutdown and I get the warning window: "..stopped responding...WAIT ? END TASK?" but both have NO NAME at the top so I don't know what they are, where, or why they're running and often WAIT or END TASK won't get it done. Neither will CTL ALT DEL X2.. Then I have to power down to shut down which is not a good thing.. I ve pulled the list of Running Programs from CTL/ALT/DEL and this one is the 'most suspect" ? Any ideas ? R |
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DKabppls.exe
Rudy wrote:
This file in Windows/system (312KB) opens on startup (Win98 6.0). Strangely, I can't find any mention of it on GOOGLE or Microsoft Help. Is it a 'legit' program ? Do I need it ? Do I need it to run on startup ? The reason I'm asking is there are 2 'windows' that hang up this computer on shutdown and I get the warning window: "..stopped responding...WAIT ? END TASK?" but both have NO NAME at the top so I don't know what they are, where, or why they're running and often WAIT or END TASK won't get it done. Neither will CTL ALT DEL X2.. Then I have to power down to shut down which is not a good thing.. I ve pulled the list of Running Programs from CTL/ALT/DEL and this one is the 'most suspect" ? Any ideas ? R Do you have a Dell , laser printer? If so the file is probably legit. Right click on the file and look at the properties... report back if you have any further questions. BTW: Though I doubt it's a virus, it never hurts to run a virus scan with a recently updated virus checker |
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DKabppls.exe
philo wrote:
Rudy wrote: This file in Windows/system (312KB) opens on startup (Win98 6.0). Strangely, I can't find any mention of it on GOOGLE or Microsoft Help. Is it a 'legit' program ? Do I need it ? Do I need it to run on startup ? The reason I'm asking is there are 2 'windows' that hang up this computer on shutdown and I get the warning window: "..stopped responding...WAIT ? END TASK?" but both have NO NAME at the top so I don't know what they are, where, or why they're running and often WAIT or END TASK won't get it done. Neither will CTL ALT DEL X2.. Then I have to power down to shut down which is not a good thing.. I ve pulled the list of Running Programs from CTL/ALT/DEL and this one is the 'most suspect" ? Do you have a Dell , laser printer? Or a Lexmark printer? Was such a printer ever installed? |
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DKabppls.exe
"philo" wrote in message ... Do you have a Dell , laser printer? If so the file is probably legit. Right click on the file and look at the properties... report back if you have any further questions. The previous owner may have had a Dell printer, but I dont. Yes, I see the info in properties BTW: Though I doubt it's a virus, it never hurts to run a virus scan with a recently updated virus checker Have done with AVG 7.5 and also ran SPYBOT and Ad-Aware, finding no problems. No sign of a DELL in printers. The ADD/Remove shows some "Dell software" but it wont remove it, referring to DELL drivers on Disk "D". There is no trace of DELL in any normal folder I can find. Probably removed (and not UNINSTALLED) by previous owner. |
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DKabppls.exe
"Rudy" wrote in message ... "philo" wrote in message ... Do you have a Dell , laser printer? If so the file is probably legit. Right click on the file and look at the properties... report back if you have any further questions. The previous owner may have had a Dell printer, but I dont. Yes, I see the info in properties BTW: Though I doubt it's a virus, it never hurts to run a virus scan with a recently updated virus checker Have done with AVG 7.5 and also ran SPYBOT and Ad-Aware, finding no problems. No sign of a DELL in printers. The ADD/Remove shows some "Dell software" but it wont remove it, referring to DELL drivers on Disk "D". There is no trace of DELL in any normal folder I can find. Probably removed (and not UNINSTALLED) by previous owner. Of course your answer has now appeared the instant I replied to your other post about you not answering. Sheesh. If the previous owner had a Dell printer, and you do not use one... and cannot uninstall the software... then I suggest running msconfig and taking anything loading that's associated with that printer out of startup. It's absolutely not needed there and once removed from startup you can reboot...save the configuration change...then hopefully your machine will shut down without hanging. |
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DKabppls.exe
This application is apparently associated with a DELL laser printer - a
W5200n XL or W5300n XL. My guess is that it's a supplementary utility - perhaps it monitors the printer status and gives progress messages about the print job, or it provides you with a printer management utility. If you don't have this printer, delete it in the printers applet and uninstall all associated utilities. Otherwise, just uninstall the utilities. Or download the latest set of drivers and delete then reinstall the printer. Your google searching should have returned this result - are you sure your www connection is working properly? -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Rudy" wrote in message ... This file in Windows/system (312KB) opens on startup (Win98 6.0). Strangely, I can't find any mention of it on GOOGLE or Microsoft Help. Is it a 'legit' program ? Do I need it ? Do I need it to run on startup ? The reason I'm asking is there are 2 'windows' that hang up this computer on shutdown and I get the warning window: "..stopped responding...WAIT ? END TASK?" but both have NO NAME at the top so I don't know what they are, where, or why they're running and often WAIT or END TASK won't get it done. Neither will CTL ALT DEL X2.. Then I have to power down to shut down which is not a good thing.. I ve pulled the list of Running Programs from CTL/ALT/DEL and this one is the 'most suspect" ? Any ideas ? R |
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DKabppls.exe
"philo" wrote in
: "Rudy" wrote in message ... "philo" wrote in message ... Do you have a Dell , laser printer? If so the file is probably legit. Right click on the file and look at the properties... report back if you have any further questions. The previous owner may have had a Dell printer, but I dont. Yes, I see the info in properties BTW: Though I doubt it's a virus, it never hurts to run a virus scan with a recently updated virus checker Have done with AVG 7.5 and also ran SPYBOT and Ad-Aware, finding no problems. No sign of a DELL in printers. The ADD/Remove shows some "Dell software" but it wont remove it, referring to DELL drivers on Disk "D". There is no trace of DELL in any normal folder I can find. Probably removed (and not UNINSTALLED) by previous owner. Of course your answer has now appeared the instant I replied to your other post about you not answering. Sheesh. If the previous owner had a Dell printer, and you do not use one... and cannot uninstall the software... then I suggest running msconfig and taking anything loading that's associated with that printer out of startup. It's absolutely not needed there and once removed from startup you can reboot...save the configuration change...then hopefully your machine will shut down without hanging. If you want things REALLY clean, do a search for "DELL" or "Lexmark" (they use a lot of re-branded Lexmarks as PA said) and/or the file you mentioned /in the registry/, remove /all/ references to it, and find (somewhere in the Windows directory) and remove the file itself as well as (/some/ caution advised here) any other files with the exact same date and time - especially if they are DELL files :-) If there is a Dell printer directory on your system, delete the whole thing. I doubt you will have any new problems after doing this. For safety, COPY all the things I said instead of deleting them entirely (you can save registry branches to some directory from regedit, THEN delete them in the registry, and if needed, double clicking on the saved .reg files will put them back in). If I were you, I would ***DEFINITELY*** reformat, fdisk, partition, and reinstall everything. EIGHT YEARS! P R E V I O U S O W N E R !!!!!! Y I K E S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Of course, it is no easy matter to be polite; in so far, I mean, as it requires us to show great respect for everybody, whereas most people deserve none at all; and again in so far as it demands that we should feign the most lively interest in people, when we must be very glad that we have nothing to do with them. - Arthur Schopenhauer |
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DKabppls.exe
thanatoid wrote:
snip If I were you, I would ***DEFINITELY*** reformat, fdisk, partition, and reinstall everything. EIGHT YEARS! P R E V I O U S O W N E R !!!!!! Y I K E S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Agreed. |
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DKabppls.exe
Jeff Richards wrote:
If you don't have this printer, delete it in the printers applet and uninstall all associated utilities. Otherwise, just uninstall the utilities. Or download the latest set of drivers and delete then reinstall the printer. There isnt any trace of the printer or its utilities..Just the files in Windows/System that all begin with DKappXXX which on checking 'properties' reveals they are all associated with DELL/LEXMARK I suppose I'll just have to delete them as I can't 'uninstall' Your google searching should have returned this result - are you sure your www connection is working properly? Seems to be working fine..GOOG only returned 2 vague unusable refs to DKabppls.exe Same on both computers. thanks for the suggestions R |
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DKabppls.exe
If you want things REALLY clean, do a search for "DELL" or "Lexmark" (they use a lot of re-branded Lexmarks as PA said) and/or the file you mentioned /in the registry/, remove /all/ references to it, Yes, I found it there..files for both DLL and LEXMARK of which I have neither and find (somewhere in the Windows directory) and remove the file itself as well as (/some/ caution advised here) any other files with the exact same date and time - especially if they are DELL files :-) Will do I doubt you will have any new problems after doing this. For safety, COPY all the things I said instead of deleting them entirely (you can save registry branches to some directory from regedit, THEN delete them in the registry, and if needed, double clicking on the saved .reg files will put them back in). Good plan.. If I were you, I would ***DEFINITELY*** reformat, fdisk, partition, and reinstall everything. EIGHT YEARS! P R E V I O U S O W N E R !!!!!! Y I K E S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Problem is, I don't have the disks to reinstall everything. There are several programs that came on the HP like the CD player and Disk burner as well as the Ethernet card thats running now (the drivers of which, and the old ISA NIC that I left in AZ for the season: 1600 miles away) All I have is a Win98SE disk but nothing else for all the other software on the machine. I'll slowly work my way thru it thanks R |
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