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by blamoure

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In the past I have had several error codes that pop up after boot. Most of them are fairly easy to resolve, either by going to google or the knowledge base and retrieving competent solutions. These solutions usually mean extracting for example a critical file and then copying it to the c: drive.
Most of these files are relativly easy to find, however sometimes they are not so easy to find. recently I have an "error loading cwcprops.cpl, the specified module could not be found.(runDll).
neither the knowledge base or google seem to have a specified answer for this. I've tried to do
dir *.cpl searches on my c drive and my 2000cd with no results. Perhaps I am not either performing the correct search method or looking in the right place? Isthere a better and or more effective way of searching and locating these difficult to locate files? I would also be very interested in a book or electronic documents that deal specifically with how to locate any file or program on storage media. On this computer I am running win2k, your suggestions on trouble shooting errors such as this would be appreciated.
I could always do a win2000 repair install, but I would prefer to go directly to the problem if possible. -Ben LaMoure

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by thechas

Ben,

Control Panels (that's what .cpl files are) do not come only from the W2K CD.

I suspect that this one belongs to an application program.

From the sounds of things, you are loosing files on a fairly frequent basis. You should not need to ever extract and replace system files, unless you have system problems.

I suggest that you start by updating your virus scanner, and performing a thourough scan of your hard drives.
Next, run Scandisk in thourough mode to check your hard drives health.

If the hard drive passes, then you need to determine who or what is deleteing these files. Some disk cleanup software is over agressive in what they look for. If you run disk cleanup software on a regular basis, this may be the root ofyour problems.

Follw up by running the recovery console, and creating a restore point. You should refresh restore points before and after software installs, and major software updates.

Chas

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