Static Vxd???

[HotWire]

Last night I hit the power outlet and turned the computer off by accident while it was on and when my computer booted back up it gave me an error message about "vredir.vxd, vnetsup.vxd and dfs.vxd.......so I went into the registry and deleted them in their respected places in HKEY-L-M then the error message stopped appearing on my boot ups.... but did I do the right thing by removing them? also I'm getting a red X on bootup saying "Windows Networking"......Unable to load the dynamic link library....msnp32.dll?????...the system can't find the specified file..Some or all of the following feature is not available....Microsoft Network Does anyone know what's going on here I don't remember deleting anything! I did disable a few things in the startup menu in msconfig but then reenabled them and this message keeps coming up?





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[Slikkster]

Most of these files, if not all, have to do with Dial-Up Networking. Here's what I would do first.

Make not of any of the information you need to dial in to your ISP...phone numbers, DNS servers, etc.

Go to Control Panel. Then, click on Add/Remove Programs. Then click on the Windows Setup tab. Remove DialUp Networking. It will go through the motions and get rid of it. I'd restart the pc at this point, then go back to Control Panel, then Add/Remove Programs, then Windows Setup. This time ADD DialUp Networking. It should give you a fresh copy of the files and update the registry accordingly.

Now, reboot again.

You may or may not have to setup your ISP's information. I've removed/reinstalled DialUp Networking and haven't had to setup a new connection for my ISP, but you might have to.

If you still have any issues with files missing, you might have to take a similar procedure with your Network icon in Control Panel by removing Client for Microsoft Networks and then reinstalling it. However, try the DialUp Networking remove/reinstall first and reboot and see what happens.

 

[HotWire]

Slik:

Any reason why this file or files would dump themselves without any clear cut reason? I just set up a new drive with a fresh format and no ISP was even set up on the machine yet?

 

[Slikkster]

Hot, I'm assuming it's just the fact that the power was killed while Windows had a lot of files open. It might not even be the files themselves, but rather the pointers to them in the registry, or in files like win.ini and system.ini.

Definitely run Scandisk if you haven't done so already to rule out any crosslinked files.

Otherwise, give what I said a try and let everyone know what happens.

 

[HotWire]

Slik:

You hit the right button again...........many thanks and I owe you a few .... scan disk didn't find anything but the removal of the network stuff worked like a charm reinstalled and it took all the missing files back off the win cd