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Old Aug 28, 2004, 12:16 AM
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Ok DO NOT delete rundll32.exe.

RUNDLL32.exe is the Windows program that loads DLLs into memory so the apps that need them can use them. You saw its name associated with that bad dll previously because it needed that command to launch itself... it was the dll that was naughty, not the RUNDLL file.

So go ahead and delete winhost32.exe, search for all of them and whack them all. Reboot, and see if that helps. If it won't let you delete winhost32 because it is "running" we will have to dig further. Otherwise we hope to slide into home base without getting tagged out.

The process list in the task manager will show RUNDLL but won't show you what DLL it is running. There is a way to find out the list of DLLs running from that command, but it is kind of convoluted... if deleting whinhost doesn't solve, that might be the next thing to try. It's not hard, just a bunch of steps typing weird commands.


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