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My husband upgraded windows ME edition, Now I get this message when I start up the computer.
DLL file, EZTEXT.DLL not found. What is this and how do I fix it?

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by hereinoz

I seem to remember that eztext.dll is associated with the IBM Rapid Access keyboard - hope I am right!!

The solution will be probably to re-install the Rapid Access keyboard driver. This probably came with the machine when you first got it.

It is also possible that the driver you have for the machine doesn't support WinME. You may have to contact IBM support to get hold of an updated driver for the keyboard.

Try:

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/dlsearch.wss?rs=0&apar=exclude&q=rapid+access+keyboard&dc=&submit.x=80&submit.y=10

to download a suitable driver.

Good Luck

by bri.ma.c

Unfortunately the "pursuit" site is now defunct, so I couldn't download what I needed from there. It did refer me to the Lycos site but I couldn't locate anything that loooked like the download you suggested. But a big THANK YOU anyway.

by bobho

The eztext.dll file is a part of ibm's keyboard driver as noted above. The error you are seeing is probably caused by the upgrade changing the path statement in your autoexec.bat file (or disabling the autoexec.bat because it didn't think it needed it).

Do a search on your hard drive for "eztext.dll" (no quotes) and see if it is there. If you find it you have a couple of options:

1) Include the directory where you found the file in the path statement in your autoexec.bat file
2) Copy the file to the system directory of your windows installation (like c:\windows\system for win98 or c:\winnt\system32 for w2k and wxp). Check your setup for which directory to use.
3) If you don't use the button features for your keyboard remove the entry used to start the feature. This could be in your startup folder, the win.ini or system.ini files or in the registry. If whatever os you are using has msconfig you can use that to easily see all of the above startup locations.

Regards,

DrBob:>)

by bri.ma.c

I showed your reply to a tech who we had previously asked about the problem and he agreed that you and "chappieaj" were on to the right track and that he would now be able to help us as before he was not sure what the problem was.

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