Realtek Audio Question

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#1

Here is what I remember happened.

I had the brilliant idea of using a different audio program than Realtek for the audio on my board. I found a program installed it & uninstalled Realtek. I went & did a search for Realtek files. Deleted them & this uninstall.dll was still there so I deleted that. The program I downloaded was not working the way I wanted it to so I figured I’l just go back to Realtek & save up for a sound card “down the road”.

Since then this error box pops up when I am loding into my windows login. It’s a small box that won’t allow for expansion. It says the following:

The title is “RunDLL”
Error Loading
C:\Progra~1\uninst~.dll
The specified module could not be found

I have run CCleaner and the registry tool that is part of it. I have gone to the MSI site & run their liveupdate tool & loaded all the latest drivers & BIOS updates available for my board. I have tried the Windows update fix to see if that was the problem, it tells me my current update is newer than the one I want to install & do I still want to install. I did not install it. I have also e-mailed Realtek to see if they can tell me anything, they have not gotten back to me.

There are 2 reasons I am convinced it has to do with Realtek. 1) It didn’t happen until I did the search/delete on realtek files. 2) when I download the realtek drivers for my board the same error message pops up.

Ideas?

#2

XP or Vista?

On XP:

  1. Click “Start”, the “Run”, and type “regedit”, then click “OK”.
  2. On the window that pops up, click “File”, then “Export”. This will make a backup copy of your registry in case anything gets FUBARed.
  3. Click “Edit”, then “Find”. Make sure that the “Values” box is checked, then search for that bogus filename: “C:\Progra~1\uninst~.dll” (without the quotes).
  4. When you find a match, delete that key.
  5. Reboot and see if the error comes back.

If you’re using Vista, then sorry… I can’t be arsed to touch that POS operating system, so I know precious little about it.

#3

That just made me LOL!! HA!

#4

Thank you, I’m here all week!

#5

Along the lines of MercuryShadow’s suggestion, I would specifically look at HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run area of the registry. This is the registry’s version of the “Startup” folder on the start menu. Maybe you can determine if there are still any Realtek stuff or the “uninst” stuff. \RunOnce may also have stuff, so check that also! Just be careful - messing with your registry kill Windows!

#6

^ Yeah, I was going to suggest looking in those locations, but I figured that a search would be a simpler way of finding the bad registry key.

#7

Thanks guys, I’ll try this when I get home…hopefully it still works after! :eek:

#8

OK, I have done a search of the registry. It is not finding any file by that name.

#9

You’re boned dude. Unless there is something hanging out in your Startup folder under Start - All Programs…