Error loading powrprof.dll... What the?!

[Perplexed]

Hey all... You folks are seemingly my last hope to debug this annoyance, seeing as how I've scoured half a dozen other message boards and nobody has given a conclusive, working answer.

When Windows 98 loads up, I get a popup message with the following:

Error loading powrprof.dll
A dynamic link library (dll) routine failed.

...has anyone encountered this? Is there a fix for it?

I did check out the Microsoft support topic on this, and their instructions didn't rectify it.

[hobey19]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=188213

that site explains your problem and how to fix it

hope that helps

craig

edit: if this is what you were talking about on MS, i apologize. have you tried disabling in msconfig? otherwise, a google search of the error:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...outine+failed.

[Chris in U.K.]

A similar prob came up a little while ago, and this link was suggested - I have not tried it myself:

http://www.dll-files.com/

HTH,

Chris

[GaryRouth]

It might be that your easiest fix might be an over-the-top reinstall. Make backups first, just in case. And run antivirus before, since antivirus must be disabled during the reinstall (unplug from any network, too). Most of the time, a reinstall on recent machines only takes about 40 minutes http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...threadid=70846

That should fix it, it's not an elegant solution, but it usually works.
. . . Gary