Runtime Error

Factual Questions
1

Ok when ever anyone goes on this compute and logs on to there “desktop” we get an error that says “Runtime error 53,File Not Found” does anybody know what what means or what files it is talking about?

2

lets try to be a bit more specific…its it windows 95, 98, ME? when did it start happening? did anyone make any changes to the system? what hardware is in the system?

3

Top-of-my-head guess with no further info would be that there is a program in the startup menu that is corrupt or has only been partially uninstalled or (most likely) missing a DLL.

4

Most OS-related programs wouldn’t give you a runtime error. This is a symptom of a non-professionally done Visual Basic program. Someone put something in there that tries to run a certain VB program when someone logs on. I would find it and kill it. It could be in three places that I know of:

  1. In the Start, Programs, Startup. This is the simplest place to put something that you want to start when Windows starts.

  2. In the Registry, which you can get to by clicking Start, Run, and entering “regedit”. If it’s there, it would be in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run. Look for something in that folder that might be it.

  3. In the \windows\win.ini file, near the top there are two lines that start with “run=” and “load=”. Programs can be run at Windows startup if someone put them there.

5

the program is windows 98 it started happending in about march i don’t believe anyone has changed anything. but sombody in my family just deleated a couple of programs (games) without uninstalling them. this is where i think it originally came from but im not quite sure

6

Easy, just drop any message you ever get into a search engine & you’ll have your answer.

e.g. dropped “Runtime error 53” into http://www.google.com/

e.g. .5 second later found:

Runtime Error 53: File not found
http://cis.uoregon.edu/orcis/kb/q001.htm

But you’ll have to go through the rest of the results to find your specific message.

What it means is what was said above, someone uninstalled a program without using the uninstaller. Thus, reinstall program & uninstall properly or use a computer maintenace program like Nortons or System Suite.