--- William Closure <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hello there, > > > > I'm having a bit of trouble when I start my > computer. I get a message > saying that a QRUNQ.DLL > file was not found. I went to my win 98 cd to see > if I could extract the > file with no luck. I > went to the internet to search for it, and came up > with nothing. Any > suggestions on how I could > get rid of this message? > > > > Thanks, > > > > I have a more basic question than this. Is there > any way to find out what a > particular file/program is? In the above example, I > would guess that the > "run" means just that, although I could be dead > wrong. Perhaps the Q could > refer to Quicken. And, being rather inexperienced, > the DLL means nothing to > me, although most of you know. This question arises > every time I do an > alt-cont-del to shut down unnecessary programs to > free up system resources. > > So, are there any sites that can help me identify > what all these > hieroglyphics mean? > > William Closure > William It would seem to me that this file belongs to a program that you presently have in your startup, and somehow this file got deleted. It is not a Windows file. Try running the program that you think is the problematic one and see if it runs. If you get that message again then you know what program is causing this error message. Dll stands for "Dynamic Link Library", and these files are used by Windows applications. Windows does have its own DLL files for applications to use, but often programs that are designed to run on a Windows operating system have their own DLL files incorporated in them. Sometimes, programs can share a dll file, and if you uninstall a program that uses a shared dll file and that file gets deleted during the uninstall, then the other program that needs that file to run won't be able to find it, and that's when you will see a message like the one you are getting. This is not a critical error and most often you can still continue to load windows without a problem. A problem may occur though when you try to run the program that needs that deleted file. One way to fix the problem is to remove the program from your startup, this way it won't try to run when you boot up and load Windows so it won't look for that dll file, but you would have to know what the program is. You can remove a program from startup in 2 ways. One is to go Start/Run, and type msconfig in the box and then click OK. When the msconfig box opens click on the Startup tab, then look in the list for the program you want to remove and uncheck its box. You will have to reboot. Another way to do it, and in my opinion, the best way, is to go into the program's preferences and disable its startup option in there. This is important to do because if you remove a program using the msconfig method, but the program has its own startup option in the preferences and it is enabled, it will keep putting itself back into your startup no matter how many times you remove it in msconfig. So what you can do is, if you think Quicken is the culprit here, remove it from the startup using either one of the methods above, then reboot your system. If the message doesn't return, your problem is solved and you can always reinstall quicken and it will put that missing dll file back. _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. http://freepctech.com/rode