WindowsME with WDMD.DLL being found by explorer

[Peter Nolan]

Hi All,
I am helping out a non-IT friend. He has an older dell with windowsme
on it. His explorer has recently started issuing a message saying that
WDMD.DLL is not found on his PC. (Just explorer, not IE)

The only reference I can find to this is the following link:

http://groups.google.ie/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&frame=right&th=b0d82c4f6b5bd477&seekm=1a62401c41d9f%24972b9d40%24a101280a%40phx.gb l#link2

I have the official Dell re-install disk for winme but I have never
played around with me. I went from 98 to 2000 and now have both 2000
and XP on PCs.

I think the best way might be to do what was equivalent to a repair in
98 but when it go through the process on the re-install winme disk it
looks like it is going to re-install everything and need all software
to be re-installed.

Since I don't know the behaviour of winme I thought I would ask. What
happens when I re-install winme from what dell says is a full
re-install disk that should only be used on a new computer??? Will it
try and format my drive? Will it go over the top of the previous
install and leave all ok...

Or is there some other way to deal with this dll error that someone
else knows about?

For me, it seems like the spyware/adware has attached the wdmd.dll to
explorer, that mcafee has deleted it, and now the error message is
being issued.

Any advice on this would be most appreciated. I don't want to blow
away my friends OS and ask hime to re-install everything.....

Thanks

Peter

[Noel Paton]

You should be able to get rid of the error message easily - if it appears at
boot time

Use MSCONFIG, and click on the Startup tab.
Click on the Cleanup button, then Apply, and OK - reboot on request.

See if that fixes it.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

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"Peter Nolan" > wrote in message
om...
> Hi All,
> I am helping out a non-IT friend. He has an older dell with windowsme
> on it. His explorer has recently started issuing a message saying that
> WDMD.DLL is not found on his PC. (Just explorer, not IE)
>
> The only reference I can find to this is the following link:
>
>
http://groups.google.ie/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&frame=right&th=b0d82c4f6b5bd477&seekm=1a62401c41d9f%24972b9d40%24a101280a%40phx.gb l#link2
>
> I have the official Dell re-install disk for winme but I have never
> played around with me. I went from 98 to 2000 and now have both 2000
> and XP on PCs.
>
> I think the best way might be to do what was equivalent to a repair in
> 98 but when it go through the process on the re-install winme disk it
> looks like it is going to re-install everything and need all software
> to be re-installed.
>
> Since I don't know the behaviour of winme I thought I would ask. What
> happens when I re-install winme from what dell says is a full
> re-install disk that should only be used on a new computer??? Will it
> try and format my drive? Will it go over the top of the previous
> install and leave all ok...
>
> Or is there some other way to deal with this dll error that someone
> else knows about?
>
> For me, it seems like the spyware/adware has attached the wdmd.dll to
> explorer, that mcafee has deleted it, and now the error message is
> being issued.
>
> Any advice on this would be most appreciated. I don't want to blow
> away my friends OS and ask hime to re-install everything.....
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter