Re: Explorer and Internet Explorer Still Sick

From: Carl M. Thomas (carlmthomas_at_alltel.net)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:28:31 -0400

OK, sports fans or anybody still paying attention to this. . . the problem
appears to be solved.

I found that the Call Stack in the Whidbey debugger showed a problem in
SDHelper.dll for IE6 and in user32.dll for Explorer. No commonality there.
But I tried to uninstall SpybotSD 1.1 which I had installed - with marginal
success. The errors still occurred, but now from different addresses
betweeen the two where they were the same before. As a test, I downloaded
the new SpybotSD 1.3 and lo the problem went away. It found some CWSearch
bookmarks that the earlier version (and CWShredder and Ad-Aware and
HiJackThis and SmartKiller) missed that must have lost a DLL that was found
and removed on an earlier CWShredder sweep, but were calling it anyway. Now
they're gone and both Explorer and IE6 work fine. I did get a system
hardware shutdown, however. So far, the reboot is holding just fine, so I
suspect I should have rebooted after the removal - a word to the wise.
Hopefully, all's well that ends well. The new Spybot looks and works
better, in spite of some online comments to the contrary.

Carl

"Carl M. Thomas" <carlmthomas@alltel.net> wrote in message
news:O$zI8AjvEHA.3200@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Just thought of this - does anybody know if SP2 replaces ALL system files
or
> ANY? Maybe if I reinstall, it will overwrite the bad file(s).
>
> Carl
>
> "Carl M. Thomas" <carlmthomas@alltel.net> wrote in message
> news:OQGW79ivEHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > Ran compreshensive system memory tests with two separate programs -
memory
> > is less than two years old and clean.
> >
> > Somewhere out there is a piece of software that lets you track calls
from
> > apps to system files. The Call Stack in the Whidbey debug mode hasn't
> been
> > extremely helpful so far. Since both Explorer and Internet Explorer
> report
> > the same three errors on startup, I need to find out what they call
early
> > ibn the game. But they eventually proceed anyway, so while this is an
> major
> > annoyance (although Explorer will allow only a single instance of itself
> to
> > run), it's not fatal. Maybe I or somebody else will come up with a good
> > idea (other than a clean install - reinstalling GB of software is not
> > attractive). But I' guess I should start burning CDs for data files and
> > images :-(
> >
> > Carl
> >
> > "sgopus" <sgopus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:1953E0CA-9A9F-4522-BCFB-70DC98847312@microsoft.com...
> > > How old is your system memory?? your RAM modules?
> > > There might be a chance some of them are going bad.
> > > It certainly sounds like some system files are corrupt, and or some
type
> > of
> > > corruption, with all the errors your getting. You might be reduced to
a
> > > clean install, sorry.
> > >
> > > "Carl M. Thomas" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes, that's what it's advertised to do, but it plodded it's way
> through
> > > > whatever it does and then exited nicely. No obvious attempt to
> replace
> > > > anything from either the CD or the I386 folder and no messages.
Nice
> > try,
> > > > though; thanks :-)
> > > >
> > > > Carl
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:074601c4b8e8$f3bf71f0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > > > > At command prompt type
> > > > >
> > > > > sfc /scannow
> > > > >
> > > > > Make sure you have your XP CD ready
> > > > >
> > > > > sfc scans all protected system files and replaces
> > > > > incorrect versions with correct Microsoft versions.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
>
>

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