Control Panel stopped functioning

Hi

Wonder if anybody here can enlighten me. Control Panel ceased to operate and following MS's corrective procedure, I now have Control Planel operating. I found one file in C:\Windows\System that seems to have been the problem. I have removed it and it's stored in a temporary folder. The file's simply not working.

Can anybody ID the file `bdeadmin.cpl'? I'm even wondering if some spyware, trojan or whatever, stuck it in there. This said, I run Spy Sweeper regularly, Adware every few days, Norton A/V is always up to date and I run IClean every night.

All I know is that the file doesn't belong to Windows 98SE.

Thank you,

 

Hey Welt...

Did you play with or installed a program that uses Borland Database Engine? Quite a few of the Google hits I see are for for this.

One hit mentions "BDEADMIN.cpl is not removed when uninstalling
delphi3.0 from windows\system "

EDIT: OUCH! --> Christer...Great minds think alike...hehehehe. Looks like LDTate went a googling also...

 

http://www.stsi.com/lurk20005.htm
Looks like it belongs to Borland software.

 

Thanks everybody. I hadn't thought to look for the file via Google but just did with the same results. It must have been installed by Corel when I installed Word Perfect 11 but NOT Borland.

What I fail to understand is that it hasn't caused problems 'til now. Corel was installed two months or more - probably three - before Control Panel ceased to function.

Will be interesting to see if anything having to do with Word Perfect will be affected. I'm not putting it back.

Once again, I appreciate all the replies.