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Got an error message after rebooting the parents' PC. Windows starts to load then gives the error along the lines of "Can't find dfs.vxd." I've searched my system for the file but can't find it nor can anyone else I know. Anyone know what the file does? Windows will continue to load and nothing seems to have a problem so I dunno. They want the error to go away though so if anyone has the file or knows where it is, please let me know. Thanks
 
Searched my Registry ( Regedit ) and found that it's located in Hkey_Current_User,Software,Microsoft,Windows,Current Version, Explorer, Doc Find Spec MRU................. I believe this is a driver for finding documents or specs.


Maybe someone can take it from here...............
 
BTW.......... I found it in a puter running Windows NT, then went and checked Windows 95 and did not find a reference to it in that same file.....I believe at this point it has to do with something you could have downloaded while in Explorer at some given time, and it may no longer be on your drive but it is still in your registry. Hence that is why it keeps popping up, see what some others say before you delete it though............there's always a "JUST IN CASE"
 
Thanks for the insight, Hotwire. I'll go out there again this weekend and do some registry scans. Who knows what they've put on that thing.
 
HotWire: MRU = Most Recently Used. That's the place where Windows Explorer keeps its list of things recently typed in the "Find" utility. You just typed "dfs.vxd", no wonder it's there...

I have this file on my Win98SE partition (Got dual-boot, on Win2K now), under \windows\system. It comes with Windows98 (from NET9.CAB). I guess it stands for Distributed File System, but I could be wrong. You can use the System File Checker to get it:
Start -> Run... -> type "sfc", the rest you'll figure out yourself

-PJ
 
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