just to put a cat among the pidgeons i did a bit of research on that error message. from what i can see it seems to be something that was recently installed/uninstalled. have you put in new software...

thanks all, it must be a remnant appears at start up telling me it's missing (unable to load). have cleaned the system. must be a hidden registry entry i missed. just wanted to make sure it's nothing...

hi can anyone tell me what egdaccess_1056.dll pertains to? or where i can get a copy of this file? having trouble finding info on this one for some reason. thanks all>