Posted on 01/17/2005 7:33:56 PM PST by topher
On a computer, I am getting that "winml.dll" is not found on reboot.
If I try to autorun from a CD, this also fails when I try the autorun.
I have tried to the shared library (DLL) on another WIN98SE machine.
But I fear this is some sort of computer virus problem.
Please take this to a Technical Support web site.
Suggest you start at Microsoft.
Did You Boot Up The Cheese and put it in the Moose Drive ?????
My comp did that too. Had to get a whole new mother board eventually. But that could have been other problems. Don't want to scare you, just relating what mine did.
Try going here: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1079747349
Remember, Google is your friend.
You could help I think.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=winmm.dll&spell=1
start reading...it might be spyware/etc...
did you run spybot search and destroy and AdAwareSE?
I read that one. That is for Win/XP -- and they point out this is a win98se file [which is where I am having the trouble].
I searched Microsoft, but got 0 hits.
delete the above...wrong .dll googled....
REPEAT - ignore anything I ever told you!!!
Not yet. I was not sure if this is spyware or virus or missing file.
We probably need to run our spyware search and destroy program more often...
I run Win98Se and do not have that file. Let me check a little further for you.
spyware stuff should be run every day if you run all over the internet...
make sure it is the latest version, always check for updates before running, and clean your cookies and temporary internet files...
If you're good to go at that level, load your Windows CD and try re-installing Windows. You won't lose any data...it'll just refresh you Windows install.
On the web, they seem to be indicating that WINMM.DLL is missing when you get that WINML.DLL is missing error message.
Sort of like the Heliocopter pilot joke in Seattle...
On the web, they seem to be indicating that WINMM.DLL is missing when you get that WINML.DLL is missing error message.
Sort of like the Heliocopter pilot joke in Seattle...
you know, your spyware cleaner might have terminated a bad-guy program in the start-up, like a browser helper object (bad guy), and it can't open on start-up...therefore it gives you that error.
go to start, settings, control panel, add-remove programs, and look at each program loaded in there...
you can google any program you don't recognize, and remove any that you identify to be spyware, etc.
There is a nice free program called WinPatrol, (go to download.com) that shows you what is loaded in your start-up, where a lot of the bad guys hide and wreak havoc...
I have 5 virus and spyware checkers and I still have a virus (Troj_small.oc) that I can't track down. At least one virus checker (PC-Cillin) captures the virus when it tries to write to my drive, but that doesn't help track down the source file. The perfect virus checker has yet to be made.
Good advice. The Technical Manager is a stickler on certain things. But I guess I have to sell that person on some of this.
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