winmehelp
January 25th, 2004, 01:59 PM
I think, recently my computer may have had a virus, infact several . I ran several virus scans, and believe me, there were many to be deleted. I deleted all the viruses that I could...but the viruses had interfered, with many of the Systems Driver files.
At first, I was unable to access my computer, because of a Rundll error. Everytime I tried to close the dialog box, the computer froze, which forced me to restart the computer (if I was able to) or, turn the computer off at the power switch.
This is what the error looked like:
"Rundll has caused an error in KERNEL32.DLL.
Rundll will now close.
If you continue to experience problems,
try restarting your computer."
Along with this error message, there were another two that followed, here is what they looked like:
"An error ocurred reading the startup configuration file. Please contact your system administrator.
SyntaxError: illegal character" (illegal characters)
.....So, I tried restarting my computer, but this didn't help..until after a while of trying, I managed to access my computer, although the error message still appeared, I could close it, with no problems.
Trouble was, the viruses had corrupted my:
Display Drivers-I managed to re-install my NVIDIA Drivers, and that solved the problem (for now).
Sound Drivers-SB Live! Missing cab file (DRIVER6.CAB)-I have tried searching for it on the Windows ME disk, or what I think is the right disk, infact, I have tried every disk I own, but, still no trace of the file.
Printer Drivers-Printer installs, but says that there is no default printer.
I went into the Printer properties and found that the printer was set as default, as a result, I cannot print out documents....
I also recieve another error message:
"Rundll has caused an error in MMSYSTEM.DLL.
Rundll will now close.
If you continue to experience problems,
try restarting your computer."
But this error message will not resolve itself..
:::::!!!!PLEASE HELP!!!!!:::::
I know the best option to take is to re-install the Windows ME OS, but that isn't really an option, quite frankly, I don't have the resources to beable to copy the essential files I need, like, documents etc...And I may risk copying a corrupt or virus infected file, and re-installing it back onto the computer...
[Sorry for the long post]
All help, is gladly welcome...Thanks.
At first, I was unable to access my computer, because of a Rundll error. Everytime I tried to close the dialog box, the computer froze, which forced me to restart the computer (if I was able to) or, turn the computer off at the power switch.
This is what the error looked like:
"Rundll has caused an error in KERNEL32.DLL.
Rundll will now close.
If you continue to experience problems,
try restarting your computer."
Along with this error message, there were another two that followed, here is what they looked like:
"An error ocurred reading the startup configuration file. Please contact your system administrator.
SyntaxError: illegal character" (illegal characters)
.....So, I tried restarting my computer, but this didn't help..until after a while of trying, I managed to access my computer, although the error message still appeared, I could close it, with no problems.
Trouble was, the viruses had corrupted my:
Display Drivers-I managed to re-install my NVIDIA Drivers, and that solved the problem (for now).
Sound Drivers-SB Live! Missing cab file (DRIVER6.CAB)-I have tried searching for it on the Windows ME disk, or what I think is the right disk, infact, I have tried every disk I own, but, still no trace of the file.
Printer Drivers-Printer installs, but says that there is no default printer.
I went into the Printer properties and found that the printer was set as default, as a result, I cannot print out documents....
I also recieve another error message:
"Rundll has caused an error in MMSYSTEM.DLL.
Rundll will now close.
If you continue to experience problems,
try restarting your computer."
But this error message will not resolve itself..
:::::!!!!PLEASE HELP!!!!!:::::
I know the best option to take is to re-install the Windows ME OS, but that isn't really an option, quite frankly, I don't have the resources to beable to copy the essential files I need, like, documents etc...And I may risk copying a corrupt or virus infected file, and re-installing it back onto the computer...
[Sorry for the long post]
All help, is gladly welcome...Thanks.