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Running Windows XP Home on a Dell Dimension Desktop, all critical updates
installed.
Recently, whenever I start Windows, right after I enter my password, I get a
warning beep. When the Welcome screen disappears, I see the following error
message on screen: "Windows cannot find the file
c:\windows\system32\netdc.exe."
I don't know what this file is, or why it is being called. I ran Webroot
Spysweeper and deleted all ad/spyware it found. Then I ran Norton Antivirus
and it found nothing. I checked my Startup group and it is empty. Ran
Msconfig and inspected my startup settings and all seems normal. I tried to
run System Restore to go back to a point before this started happening but
System Restore couldn't do it. Finally, I tried starting in Safe Mode. I
still get the error.
I looked at my other Dell Dimension, which has pretty much the same
configuration but is behaving normally, and there is no such file on it,
hidden or otherwise.
Other than my getting the error message, all seems normal. I'm having no
problems with the OS, or with running any software (primarily MS Office
2003). But it's annoying.
Does anyone have any idea what this is all about?
Thanks in advance.
installed.
Recently, whenever I start Windows, right after I enter my password, I get a
warning beep. When the Welcome screen disappears, I see the following error
message on screen: "Windows cannot find the file
c:\windows\system32\netdc.exe."
I don't know what this file is, or why it is being called. I ran Webroot
Spysweeper and deleted all ad/spyware it found. Then I ran Norton Antivirus
and it found nothing. I checked my Startup group and it is empty. Ran
Msconfig and inspected my startup settings and all seems normal. I tried to
run System Restore to go back to a point before this started happening but
System Restore couldn't do it. Finally, I tried starting in Safe Mode. I
still get the error.
I looked at my other Dell Dimension, which has pretty much the same
configuration but is behaving normally, and there is no such file on it,
hidden or otherwise.
Other than my getting the error message, all seems normal. I'm having no
problems with the OS, or with running any software (primarily MS Office
2003). But it's annoying.
Does anyone have any idea what this is all about?
Thanks in advance.