what is MSUIOBKOW.dll

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my pc keeps giving me a popup that says it can't o {blank} because
msuiobkow.dll is no found and that reinstalling the program might help. what
is this all about?
 
gabemanTN said:
my pc keeps giving me a popup that says it can't o {blank} because
msuiobkow.dll is no found and that reinstalling the program might help.
what
is this all about?
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It's remnants of a virus that your virus checker deleted.

First run msconfig and if it's referenced there in startup...
uncheck it.

If it's not listed there you will need to do a registry search
and manually delete the entries...there will probably be four of them or so
 
A Dll ( Dynamic Link Library ) is small piece of code that a program
calls to perform a function. In your case there is a startup call that is
attempting to run an application ( or service ) and the referenced .dll
isn't found on the PC.
In many cases a failing .Dll call is due to Malware. Security software
may remove the infector but leave the startup call in place.
If you don't use Malwarebytes you should download/install & update
the program and scan your system.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

As an additional tool you may want to use AutoRuns to determine
what is being started during the PC's bootup sequence.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
 
gabemanTN said:
My pc keeps giving me a popup that says it can't o {blank} because
msuiobkow.dll is not found and that reinstalling the program might help. What
is this all about?
Click to expand...

It's possible some malware was deleted by your a/v software, but the
reference to the file was not removed from the registry.

Click Start, Run, type REGEDIT, click OK. Press the Home key, press F3,
type the name of the file into the search pane. Click "Find Next", and
when located, delete the reference to the file. Press F3 to continue
the search.

If the file is preceded by "Rundll32.exe", (Rundll32.exe msuiobkow.dll)
you can still delete the entry. If preceded by "Explorer.exe", check
back before deleting.

You can click File, Export, and save the entry to the Desktop. If you
remove it and there's a problem, double-click the .reg file you exported
to the Desktop and it'll be added to the registry again. You can create
a restore point before editing the registry too.

You could click Start, Run, type MSCONFIG, click OK, click the StartUp
tab, and deselect the item(s). When you restart the computer, you will
be warned that you're running in the Diagnostic mode; click to not alert
you again, and OK out. You won't see the message again. But I think
it's best to just remove the references from the registry.
 
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