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| 222578 | 2004-03-14 20:45:00 | I have this in my program list, but have never known what it was. (First noticed it after a tech friend did some fiddling, but maybe it came with something I installed..?) Anyway, Google efforts left me none the wiser.Most entries in foreign languages. It seemed harmless, so I've just ignored it - until now, when curiosity has got the better of me. But my latest efforts have done no more than expand it from umsd to umsd tools 2.33. Hardly a major breakthrough... Properties tells me it's an application, but when I try to Open it, I'm told "This program is already running." Certainly it's in my Start menu as umsd. Please - what is it actually DOING? Win 98SE |
Laura (43) | ||
| 222579 | 2004-03-14 21:33:00 | do you have a USB storage disk ? | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 222580 | 2004-03-14 21:36:00 | oops i didn't look hard enough. have a look here (www.allcan.com.tw) under catalogue. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 222581 | 2004-03-14 21:57:00 | Curiouser and curiouser... Do you mean the thing called a USB Flash Disk? I don't even know what that IS. I did mention to the tech that I'd like to get a CD Writer some day (Mine only reads), so is it something to do with that? But why would it be running now? It also mentions wireless - which I haven't got. And I don't think I've got a USB storage disk - whatever that is. (Mind you, this is a former office machine. Anything to do with that?) My background knowledge just ain't up to this. Please can you elaborate. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 222582 | 2004-03-14 22:10:00 | Okay, I've now found the right place (Didn't understand the "catalogue" reference 1st time) but having trouble with the download. I will keep persevering, though. So nice to know there's a choice for the manual - English, French & 2 kinds of Chinese. Whatever this is, there are obviously a lot of them around... |
Laura (43) | ||
| 222583 | 2004-03-14 22:50:00 | Your tech friend might of installed that program/driver so they could back up some data (or copy data from) a removeable USB storage device, like this USB mass storage device (customer.cannol.com). You should be able to uninstall it via add/remove if it is no longer required. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 222584 | 2004-03-14 23:03:00 | Pretty much correct, Jen I've just spent an illuminating session reading through the manual for umsd 2.3, which I downloaded from that very same website after tweake'e gave me the link. It's certainly the software for a similar USB storage device, even if not the exact one. Actually, it looks like a useful piece of hardware: only sorry I've not got one. It's still a mystery to me why it's shown as running when I try to open it, but at least that's one more thing I can remove from my Start-up menu. My thanks to you both. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 222585 | 2004-03-15 08:44:00 | Oh dear - all is not well, after all Tonight I tried to open my email. The message says: Outlook Express could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be loaded. Now maybe this is unrelated to the Umsd tools and should be a different thread, but the co-incidence seems strong. So here goes on what I did earlier today. (1) Unticked the umsd entry in Startup menu. I did that instead of using Add/Remove programs because I was curious about why it was running & thought that way I could Open it for details before removing - or maybe even decide to keep it. In Startup it was listed alongside PLoader - the only entry there, but 2 slightly different versions ( Details later if that's important) I did nothing more then & went out (2) Tonight at bootup a new dialog box appeared. It said No Messages. When closed it said: When you close WinPopup you will not receive any messages. (Seemed logical, but puzzling. Never seen one like this before.) Clicking on the Outlook Express shortcut brought up a different box with the message at top. I have rebooted several times, checked Google & found out I can apparently download this msoe dll, but will that help? Presumably I still have it somewhere - just not in the right place? Forgot to say the obvious - yes, I reticked PLoader in Startup but it made no difference. And umsd is still running apparently.How significant is that - if at all?. So my questions are: Does this relate to PLoader/umsd or it's co-incidence & should be a new thread? How do I fix it to get at my mail? Will I have to re-install OE/IE? Don't know how to do that. I have Version 6 of both - upgraded from 5, but not by me (I note today is the Ides of March. Julius Caesar & I may have something in common..) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 222586 | 2004-03-15 19:10:00 | After many hours of Googling, a lot of experimenting and much frustration, I have decided the mess-up of my MSOE. DLL has nothing to do with umsd or anything else mentioned so far. I still can't access my mail, but will make another post later with a header which reflects the current problem more accurately. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 222587 | 2004-03-15 20:29:00 | >(2) Tonight at bootup a new dialog box appeared. It said No Messages. When closed it said: When you close WinPopup you will not receive any messages. >(Seemed logical, but puzzling. Never seen one like this before.) Winpop is a messenger program to be used across a network between computers (like netsend Messenger). It can also be used by spammers to pop up messages whilst you are on the net. You must of activated it under startup. Take a look and remove winpopup.exe from the startup list. In fact, it is probably better than you completely disable this program by going to C:\WINDOWS\Winpopup and finding the winpopup.exe and renaming the extension to winpopup.OLD so that it cannot be launched again. >Clicking on the Outlook Express shortcut brought up a different box with the message at top So the OE shortcut also launches WinPopup? Right click on your shortcut > Properties, and look what target program the shortcut is pointing at. Do you have a firewall installed? Do you use Spybot S&D and/or Ad-aware? >I still can't access my mail, but will make another post later with a header which reflects the current problem more accurately. That is a good idea :). For the meantime you should be able to access your mail via your ISP's webmail service. Disabling the Umsd tools under startup should not of caused this problem. It is probably better that you completely uninstall the program after you have sorted out the OE problem. |
Jen C (20) | ||
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