Dude, where's my snaphlp.vxd file?

I put on a new software install and removed the older copies.


So there's a bootup problem where I get the message about uninstalling
an unused appllication.
Somewhere in the mix, a shared file (I guess) called snaphlp.vxd


And boot process stops there now.

I looked for refs in msconfig under win.ini, autoexec and config sys
but no clue of what's wrong.

Googling and yahooing only gaver some ref. on a German site that
mentioned the file in reference to Windows Startup. Would I have to
reinstall the OS for this?


Other thing I did was look for snaphlp.vxd on the Win98Se disk.
Only other place for vxds I know to look for is sound card, so I'll
check the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz disk too.




Will check of rany replies shortly.


thanks,


lon.TakeThisOut@athenet.net

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:52:42 -0500, Lon Ponschock
<lon.RemoveThis@athenet.net> wrote:

 >
 >
 > I put on a new software install and removed the older copies.
 >
 >
 >So there's a bootup problem where I get the message about uninstalling
 >an unused appllication.
 >Somewhere in the mix, a shared file (I guess) called snaphlp.vxd
 >
 >
 >And boot process stops there now.
 >
 > I looked for refs in msconfig under win.ini, autoexec and config sys
 >but no clue of what's wrong.
 >
 > Googling and yahooing only gaver some ref. on a German site that
 >mentioned the file in reference to Windows Startup. Would I have to
 >reinstall the OS for this?
 >
 >
 >Other thing I did was look for snaphlp.vxd on the Win98Se disk.
 >Only other place for vxds I know to look for is sound card, so I'll
 >check the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz disk too.

Boot to safe mode, then use Regedit to search the registry for
that file name, as that is where it's loaded. Export a backup of
that registry subkey and then delete ONLY the part referring to
that file.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->