Stopping MS_Webcheck.dll?

[Terry Pinnell]

What is this process MS_Webcheck.dll please? It seems to be the source
of something called the Microsoft Web Monitor. I tend to distrust any
'monitor' that doesn't make its purpose 100% transparent. So I'd like
to get rid of it. How can I do that please?

I did some googling and found this suggestion:
"In the Run box type: regsvr32 /u WEBCHECK.DLL and the registry entry
is gone. Restart to see the result. If you however need
"ms_webcheckmonitor" again just register the WEBCHECK.DLL with:
regsvr32 WEBCHECK.DLL and after a restart it's back."

But on trying that unload procedure I got the message:
"WEBCHECK.DLL was loaded, but the DllUnregisterServer entry point was
not found.
WEBCHECK.DLL does not appear to be a .DLL or .OCX file."

Which doesn't make any sense to me...

I also read that this is part of the Internet Explorer 'offline
synchronizing' facility, but the latest I could find says that
off-line reading has now been dropped,

FWIW, I found several (8?) references to webcheck.dll in my XP Pro
registry.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

What is this process MS_Webcheck.dll please? It seems to be the source
of something called the Microsoft Web Monitor. I tend to distrust any
'monitor' that doesn't make its purpose 100% transparent. So I'd like
to get rid of it. How can I do that please?

I did some googling and found this suggestion:
"In the Run box type: regsvr32 /u WEBCHECK.DLL and the registry entry
is gone. Restart to see the result. If you however need
"ms_webcheckmonitor" again just register the WEBCHECK.DLL with:
regsvr32 WEBCHECK.DLL and after a restart it's back."

But on trying that unload procedure I got the message:
"WEBCHECK.DLL was loaded, but the DllUnregisterServer entry point was
not found.
WEBCHECK.DLL does not appear to be a .DLL or .OCX file."

Which doesn't make any sense to me...

I also read that this is part of the Internet Explorer 'offline
synchronizing' facility, but the latest I could find says that
off-line reading has now been dropped,

FWIW, I found several (8?) references to webcheck.dll in my XP Pro
registry.

No one here with any know-how on this please?

 

[Tim Meddick]

As far as I can work out Webcheck.dll is an intrinsic part of the Windows
OS.

It is involved with:

Auto Disconnect of Dial-Up Connections
Adding Items to Active Desktop
Synchronisation of "Make this page available offline?" pages.

I don't think that unregistering it would be a good idea.
Although this dll should not be sowing up in the running process every time,
sometimes you will initiate a process that requires the use of a particular
dll - in this case - if you were to request that a particular item on the
favourites menu was to be made "Available Offline". Then this dll would
definitely be needed.

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

As far as I can work out Webcheck.dll is an intrinsic part of the Windows
OS.

It is involved with:

Auto Disconnect of Dial-Up Connections
Adding Items to Active Desktop
Synchronisation of "Make this page available offline?" pages.

I don't think that unregistering it would be a good idea.
Although this dll should not be sowing up in the running process every time,
sometimes you will initiate a process that requires the use of a particular
dll - in this case - if you were to request that a particular item on the
favourites menu was to be made "Available Offline". Then this dll would
definitely be needed.

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

Thanks Tim. What's puzzling me is that I gather IE
off-line reading has now been dropped...