Office toolbar msg after MSAS Install

[bburn]

Everything was fine prior to installing MSAS. Afterwards,
When I click an icon on the Office toolbar I get the
message:

"The application or DLL C:\Windows\System32\aaaaaa.dll is
not a valid windows image. Please check this against your
installation diskett."

I deleted all the icons from the toolbar and went back to
reselect them directly from the location of the *.exe file
and still the same message appears.

Fortunately, once the message appears, it disappears after
clicking OK and the program opens. Oddly enough, this
happens on OE, IE, Winfax, MS Photoed, MS Paint, Explorer,
and MS calc but does not happen with Word, Access or
Excell.

Any idea what's up?

Bill

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Did you in fact, do a scan and remove something?

This sounds a lot like a typical aftermath of removal of some kinds of
viruses which have a hook so that they are reactivated when you open any
program.

For some such leftovers, a second cleaning run with Microsoft Antispyware
cleans up the leftover issue. I'm not at all sure about this one, though.
If you go to tools, advanced tools, system explorers, and look at the items
you can browse through there--do you see this aaaaaa.dll listed?

I think we need somebody more facile in Window shell issues than I am to
say how to deal with this easily.