Mike
Sat Feb 07 15:50:41 CST 2004
It appears that you may have picked up a variation of the odious CoolWebSearch
hijacker. See Variant 24. CWS.Control at
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html.
Download and use CWShredder, the removal tool from
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip to remove this unwelcome pest.
If you need to restore control.exe then rather than using SFC (which Win Me
does
not have) boot into Safe Mode and use instead MSConfig | General - Extract
File ... You may also need to replace rundll32.exe with a new copy from the
Win Me cab
files.
Control.exe is contained in WIN_16.CAB and Rundll32.exe in WIN_17.CAB of the
Win Me cab set and can be restored using MSConfig | General | Extract File ...
and following the
prompts. The "cab" files are in the Win9x folder on the Win Me CD and/or in a
sub-folder of Windows\Options. See MS KB129605 - "HOW TO: Extract Original
Compressed Windows Files" (
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=129605).
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com
Rich <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I re-installed Windows ME 3 times this month then PC works
> fine --a week later I cannot open Control Panel. C Drive
> works fine . Somehow Win32 stops working ,seems like it's
> locked .I keep getting message "Windows cannot accesss the
> specified device or file.You may not have the appropriate
> permissions to access the item.I have had this PC for 4
> years --this just started to happen !What caused this ?
> Maybe to many Security software on at same time ?
> Norton , Spybot , Startguard ,etc ? I tried not loading
> some of them ---still get problem .Microsoft says its
> Windows ME problem ,but dont tell how to fix !