Rich said:
Thanks much everyone - it's a Dell XPS M1210 laptop, with Vista Home
premium.
That program doesn't show up when I look in the programs / delete programs
functions. There is a folder in the Programs files which contains an
application extension cldsc.dll - that's about it. So I'm not even sure
how
to get rid of it really!
When you receive the error msg, does it just read "cldsc.dll has stopped
responding..." or does it list a different program? Dll's are generally
loaded by other programs. And whichever program is loading that dll is what
you have to prevent from starting. Could be that that dll performs a
specific task within the calling program and if you can figure out what that
task is, and disable it within the program, you might stop seeing the errors
and problems you've recently experienced. You can right click on the dll
file and check out properties. The details tab may even disclose the purpose
of the dll (like "DVD load watcher" or something like that... then you'd
know it's a program to monitor when DVD's are mounted and then it would call
the Cinema program to open the DVD, instead of Windows Media Player. Not
saying that's what it is though...) Assuming the error msg is for the
"parent" program and not the DLL, if you can determine what the dll's
supposed to be doing, then maybe you can try to disable that capability from
within the parent program. Long shot... and maybe not worth the effort..
And... you're saying the Cinema player doesn't show up in Add/Remove
programs?
Hmm... and, lastly, you can check to see if it's being started as a
service... Open Task Manager and see if it shows up as a process or a
service. If it's running as a service you can click on the Services button
in the lower right corner of the services tab in Task Manager and when the
services window opens, find the service and set its startup type to
disabled. Then Stop the service. But I'd guess that dll is being called by
the cinema player when it is automatically started... but, again, that's
just a guess.
Good luck. Let us know how you fare.
Lang