Re: Error Loading

From: WinGuy (no_spam_at_nomail.bot)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:43:25 GMT

Ok, then the sdkoa32.dll that I can not find out anything about, but which
suspiciously looks like part of Microsoft SDK that was installed at some
point in time, might have been deleted by your antivirus or other
anti-compromise utility. Can you find the file anywhere on your HDD? When
searching, be sure to have enabled looking for hidden & system files (best
to disable that ability later to prevent accidental problems!) If you can
find it then look at its properties, see if it claims to be from Microsoft.
If so, then search the Microsoft website for that file - they usually have a
full listing of installed files for everything they put on a computer. If
you don't find it then the file is very suspicious as being potentially part
of malware that got deleted and without the Registry being properly cleaned
up.

Are you using XP Pro? If so, you might need to go enable auditing in order
for the error to show up in Even Viewer. Something like Control Panel |
Administrative Tools | Local Security Policy | Local Policy | Audit Policy
(whew!) where you can right-click an entry in the right hand side pane and
choose what kind of auditing should show up for various things in Event
Viewer. For most things there, I usually at least turn on auditing of
failures. I'm doing this from memory, so the procedure might be a bit off,
but that's the general idea. XP-Home won't let you do this (why, I don't
know!)

So see if you can enable all those policies, and then maybe when the error
occurs it will show up somewhere in Event Viewer. Let me know, I've some
other ideas if you just can not get it to identify itself in Even Viewer.
Also, I do really need to know if that file actually exists anymore on your
system. There are some ways you can watch what files are being accessed,
what registry activity is occurring, and what dll's are being used and
depend on other dll's, but this requires getting some utils (nice to have)
and learning how to use them. Eventually, this problem can indeed be
resolved.
Pick up your favorite monitoring utils at:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml
Most of them work just fine with XP.

"Hawaii Boy" <HawaiiBoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:11D837FC-9E1E-4187-B6DE-93A809A16EF5@microsoft.com...
> WinGuy, I went and deleted all the contents in the three Event viewer
sections in My Computer and there are now no Red X's or Yellow Exclamation
points left. I did still get that Error Loading again after shutting down
and rebooting my system But there seems to be no problems at all logging
intoeither IE or AOLand Yahoo. All three srevices work fine and no browser
problems at all. I am wondering if that error has anything to do with
McAfee Privacy Service that opens on my desktop on start up, that I have to
log into before I can access anything on my system. A security measure that
came with the McAfee Redzone suite. Thank's for all your advice, it thought
me a lot believe it or not. If I ever find the reason I will post it here.
But for now it looks as if I will have a resident in my system, be it a
harmless one for now.
> Aloha

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