Need help in IE.. Gifs wont move in IE, but they move everywhere else. Missing HPFS?

I had downloaded panda antivirus and it clamed I had some worm virus on my computer.
It offered to delete it.. And I accepted.
I restarted, and now, everytime I start-up, I get these two messages:

1 - "Cannot find the file hpfs (or one of its components. Make the path and filename are correct that all required libraries are available "

2 - "Could not load or run hpfs specified in the WIN.INI file. Make sure the file exists on your PC or remove the reference to it in the WIN.INI file. "

When I click ok, everything seems normal, but when I go in IE, none of the gifs that usualy move are moving. They're still.
I tried saving a gif that moved but after saving, It only had one frame (I checked by going to a gif animator program). On other computers gif's are still animated, so I know it's just MY computer.
Is it something to do with the HPFS?

 

HPFS

Good grief. What OS version are you running and what size is your hard drive? Windows NT versions 3.1, 3.5, and 3.51 are the only ones I know of that ever used that file system and it was not recommended for drives smaller than 200Mb or larger than 400Mb.

Also it would help some to have a clue what virus Panda cleaned for you.

 

I use a Windows 98 (updated version with 2000 word etc.) and the hard drive is 26.8GB big, if that's what you meant.

And I have no idea what that virus was except that it was a worm (supposedly). I deleted Panda as soon as I saw the problem, because I was worried it would do even more damage next time I found a "virus ". And Panda doesn't have a virus history, it only shows the last found virus so I wouldn't have been able to find it anyway. I changed to PestPatrol after that.

 

Whew - glad to hear you are running a newer OS than NT3.x and have a normal size hard drive. NT3.x is a mid '90s OS and way past obsolete by now.

Open win.ini in notepad and search for hpfs. When you find it, put a semi-colon at the beginning of the line followed by a blank space. That will de-activate the entry without hurting anything. Save the win.ini file.

If that stops the error and you don't see any other problems, you can just leave things that way. Won't hurt.

Reboot and go to control panel ~ add/remove and repair IE.

Follow that with a good, general clean-up instructions of your PC.

• Open a browser window and dump all TIF (temporary internet files) and cookies. Close.
• Open windows explorer and
  .. delete the contents of all temp folders
  .. delete any files in c:\ with a name filennnn.chk (where nnnn is any number so file0001.chk, file1034.chk, etc)
• verify that you have fewer than 500 files & folders directly under c:\. If you are close to that number, remove or move some files.
• empty the recycle bin
• boot to DOS
• from the command prompt do the following
  .. scanreg /fix <ENTER> (press the ENTER key)
  .. scanreg /opt <ENTER>
  ****note that 95 does not have scanreg.exe but a copy from 98 or ME will run fine if you can get one
  .. scandisk c:\ /nosave /autofix /surface <ENTER>
  .. Win /D:M (forces a safe mode windows start)
• Run another scandisk (start~programs~accessories~system tools) and check for a standard scan and to fix all errors found. The DOS scan couldn't check for long file name issues.
• Run a defrag
• Reboot to normal Windows.

 

Um... I'll try the win.ini file thing right now, but I can't find any hpfs on my computer. It's like it doesn't exist. And im not sure i could do those in ms dos, because im a total, well, beginer anywhere outside windows :/

 

I couldn't find any hpfs in the file...
???