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re: Annoying message during windows startup Tuesday, May 4, 2004 at 8:56 am Posted by jabuck (2274 messages posted) Barry, Looks like a coolwebserch infection download cwshredder close all running programs and browsers for best results>run it. ---jabuck On Tuesday, May 4, 2004 at 7:05 am, Barry wrote: >Dear all, > I have just installed Office XP Professional on Windows ME. I only installed Word, >Excel, and Powerpoint. > > After installation I restarted my PC, an error message popped up: >"Error Loading C:\\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\BRIDGE.DLL > The system cannot find the file specified " > > However, when I look into the folder C:\\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ > > I do clearly see that the file "BRIDGE.DLL" is there! > > I then uninstalled Office XP and reboot the PC again, sadly, the same message just >won't go away. > > So my question is, what is this BRIDGE.DLL file doing on my PC? I am tempted to >go into Regedit and delete all the entries with bridge.dll but I am not sure if this >is the right thing to do. > > Many thanks for helping out. > > barry > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Annoying message during windows startup Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 3:40 am Posted by Barry (2 messages posted) Thanks Jabuck, I did went to the website you specified and download the software, unfortunately it won't help. I did download another software "startuplist" and notice that under " Autorun entries from Registry:", the following line is present RunDLL = rundll32.exe "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\BRIDGE.DLL",Load I am sorry that I forgot to mention about this "RunDLL" thing in my previous email. I don't know what it does. Can I go into the registry and delete this entry? Will really appreciate you sharing with me. Thanks again. On Tuesday, May 4, 2004 at 8:56 am, jabuck wrote: >Barry, Looks like a coolwebserch infection download cwshredder >close all running programs and browsers for best results>run it. ---jabuck > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Annoying message during windows startup Wednesday, May 19, 2004 at 1:58 pm Posted by c-luva (1 messages posted) Barry, Run a spyware removal tool, ie ad-aware spybot etc. If it still give you the message go into the registry and remove the string (Rundll32.exe "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\BRIDGE.DLL",Load) from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Annoying message during windows startup Sunday, June 13, 2004 at 5:40 pm Posted by Scott Knapp (1 messages posted) When you say to remove the sting, does that mean the entire line in the registry? I have tried all the sugestions in the post and this is the last resort. I have the same exact problem that is listed. I did run the ad-aware and the cwshredder, both did not work. On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 at 1:58 pm, c-luva wrote: >Barry, > > Run a spyware removal tool, ie ad-aware spybot etc. If it still give you >the message go into the registry and remove the string (Rundll32.exe "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\BRIDGE.DLL",Load) >from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum