Stimon not responding--- What is this error and how do I fix it?

[gplracer]

Stimon not responding--- What is this error and how do I fix it?

I get this error sometimes and I have to reboot

 

[Talon]

It has to do with scanners and I believe is loaded in your startup. I also saw a brief reference somewhere about checking to make sure your USB is enabled. It's not exactly a solution to your problem but may give you a bit more to go on.

http://computers.rochester.rr.com/nick/19.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q257/8/15.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=stimon&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=W98

 

[corkyg]

You may not need to fix it. Here is what it is (from M$):

"Still Image Monitor (Stimon.exe) is a program that is installed by Windows Millennium Edition (Me) and Windows 98 when a Universal Serial Bus (USB) scanning device is successfully enumerated. It is configured to start automatically at start(size 5833 bytes, updated 10/22/2000 4:06:00 AM GMT)"

If you do not have such a device in your system, then all you have to do is go into System Configuration Utility, Start Up tab, and uncheck STIMON so it doesn't load on start.