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WindowsME with WDMD.DLL being found by explorer
Hi All,
I am helping out a non-IT friend. He has an older dell with windowsme on it. His explorer has recently started issuing a message saying that WDMD.DLL is not found on his PC. (Just explorer, not IE) The only reference I can find to this is the following link: http://groups.google.ie/groups?hl=en...hx.gbl#li nk2 I have the official Dell re-install disk for winme but I have never played around with me. I went from 98 to 2000 and now have both 2000 and XP on PCs. I think the best way might be to do what was equivalent to a repair in 98 but when it go through the process on the re-install winme disk it looks like it is going to re-install everything and need all software to be re-installed. Since I don't know the behaviour of winme I thought I would ask. What happens when I re-install winme from what dell says is a full re-install disk that should only be used on a new computer??? Will it try and format my drive? Will it go over the top of the previous install and leave all ok... Or is there some other way to deal with this dll error that someone else knows about? For me, it seems like the spyware/adware has attached the wdmd.dll to explorer, that mcafee has deleted it, and now the error message is being issued. Any advice on this would be most appreciated. I don't want to blow away my friends OS and ask hime to re-install everything..... Thanks Peter |
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WindowsME with WDMD.DLL being found by explorer
You should be able to get rid of the error message easily - if it appears at
boot time Use MSCONFIG, and click on the Startup tab. Click on the Cleanup button, then Apply, and OK - reboot on request. See if that fixes it. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "Peter Nolan" wrote in message om... Hi All, I am helping out a non-IT friend. He has an older dell with windowsme on it. His explorer has recently started issuing a message saying that WDMD.DLL is not found on his PC. (Just explorer, not IE) The only reference I can find to this is the following link: http://groups.google.ie/groups?hl=en...hx.gbl#li nk2 I have the official Dell re-install disk for winme but I have never played around with me. I went from 98 to 2000 and now have both 2000 and XP on PCs. I think the best way might be to do what was equivalent to a repair in 98 but when it go through the process on the re-install winme disk it looks like it is going to re-install everything and need all software to be re-installed. Since I don't know the behaviour of winme I thought I would ask. What happens when I re-install winme from what dell says is a full re-install disk that should only be used on a new computer??? Will it try and format my drive? Will it go over the top of the previous install and leave all ok... Or is there some other way to deal with this dll error that someone else knows about? For me, it seems like the spyware/adware has attached the wdmd.dll to explorer, that mcafee has deleted it, and now the error message is being issued. Any advice on this would be most appreciated. I don't want to blow away my friends OS and ask hime to re-install everything..... Thanks Peter |
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