Nuisance messages on boot up

I keep getting these two messages when booting up and am not familiar enough with editing the registry to remove it.

The messages appear just as typed.

Windows cannot find 'll
ll' make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again.

2nd message in Desktop box

Could not load or run 'll
ll' specified in the registry. Make sure that the file exists on your computer or remove the reference to it in the registry.

I have went into the regedit and looked around a bit but really don't know where to look. Can anyone clue me in with a step by step to rid these messages.

I forgot to mention that these messages appear with the desktop in the background. You have to clear them before it can finish the last bit of booting up.

 

run chkdsk and scan u'r system. looks like file corruption and/or a malicious prog

 

Thanks.

 

Used a bug doctor and fixed all but 7 shared tools or files and also ran chkdsk and still have problem.

 

Well, the easiest thing to try is to use msconfig to try to eliminate it. Start>run>msconfig. Click on the startup tab and see if there's anything in there that resembles it. If so, remove the checkmark from it, reboot and see what happens.

 

I checked that and couldn't find anything like it.

 

well ... it didn't fix them ... that's not good what bug doc did u use?

short of that, reinstall clean is my advice or run a repair install

 

Are you talking formatting or just replacing XP on top of itself?

 

[FONT= "Verdana"]Perhaps you could have a better look at what is running or being loaded up behind the scenes. You could do this using this script which you can estimate and then download if you like at:

http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_scriptuse.html​

If you download it, then save it to an independent folder and run it and it show you all the files loaded in the same folder.

Regards - Rista[/FONT]

 

If a program is trying to load, we have to first find the location from where program is trying to run as there can be many locations where it can be autorun.

Download Winpatrol from here http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html, install it and let it run. It would clearly show you ALL the programs trying to autorun along with their folders and the place in the registry from where they are called. Just find your program and disable it.

By the way, which antivirus/spyware finder are you using ?

 

First thanks for responding. My anti-stuff is provided by my isp SBCYahoo.

 

Do you have HijackThis? It might show up in there. Look for a line that says "no file" at the end of it. If you aren't familiar with HijackThis you'd be best off to copy and paste the contents of the log file in here. Or, start a new thread in the "removing spyware and viruses" forum and post the contents of it in there. I'm not really thinking it's spyware or a virus. This is something that's supposed to load at startup but it's either missing or the name of the file is wrong so windows can't find it. HijackThis shows some startup items and if it shows up there you could use it to remove the reference to the file.

 

I have no idea what your ISP is providing to you, but from I hate any program provided by the ISP as it most of them are trash.

Download AVG antivirus and 'Ad Aware SE', update them and then scan your computer. Maybe then we can proceed.

 

i was talking about full clean install ... it's what i do on any system that gets jacked up. very drastic but ... i'm a drastic kinda guy

the repair option is to run win xps installer and then do the R option ... not the console option but the 2nd R (i think) and it'll pretty much install on top.

do the scans etc mentioned in this thread .... if it fails to resolve ok, then think about the above

 

Full Install - Best way to get you out of any soup. Highly recommended.

 

yep - agreed. the big hammer fixes anything short of broken HW

 

I think a format and reinstall is a bit extreme for this problem. It's just something that's supposed to load and it's not there so you get an error message. If everything else is working ok there's no way I'd format.

Open regedit and click edit>find and type in 'll. Perhaps you can find it that way. If that doesn't do it perhaps it's being called by a program that's loading. It might be worth a try to disable everything on the startup tab in msconfig (other than your firewall if you have one) and then reboot and see if you get the error message. If you want to also disable any firewall you may have be sure you first disconnect your internet connection before you do it.

 

Agreed Zander.

Reinstall may be a bit for this particular problem but for most of the problems being discussed in the forum, I think this would be a better and cleaner solution.

 

OK, I tried to find it through regedit and had no luck. About disabling everything on startup but my firewall, seems I've done this before on another computer and things didn't quite want to work right after that.

 

the only issue to me is that when i see a situation like this ... i leads me to think that this isn't the only thing wrong