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    Why do i get this message everytime I exit a game?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Halo360Fan, Aug 27, 2008.

  1. Halo360Fan

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    Every time I exit one of my computer games I always get this message Rundll32 has stopped working? Is this a bad thing? Is there a way to get it to stop showing the message?
     
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    anyone know?
     
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    From searching around it seems to be that your video drivers may be the culprit (reference this thread). Maybe try updating them to the latest, or if you did, try going back one version.
     
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    i'm still on stock drivers. But does this do any harm to my computer if I leave it. Its only a little annoying.
     
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    I have the same problem on my desktop. Whenever I play an online game of starcraft, when the game finishes it crashes. Eventually, internet explorer stopped working too. So I think its a virus, so I do the scan, and sure enough windowssystems32.DLL file pops up as infected. So i move it to the virus vault because I can't heal it, but now whenever i log onto my computer it says unable to find file: windowssystems32.DLL(thats not it exactly, it has leters like lywghet with it, but ya) anyways, internet explorer doesn't work and SC still crashes and i dont know how to fix it, tried everything cept professional help.
     
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    Update your drivers and see if it happens again; it also depends where rundll32.exe is located.

    That's completely different and it's a bit too soon to jump to the conclusion that Halo360Fan's problems are virus related (it's very possible, but not enough info's given). As for you, er, you need to run a better virus scan (online free ones: TrendMicro, Bitdefender, Kaspersky) as well as spyware scan (TrendMicro & Kaspersky free online also scan for spyware). Ideally you should run various programs (like HijackThis) which show what programs are loading with your OS; that's the best way to see what spyware/viruses might be active on your system (anything suspicious, with gibberish, or an (Unknown Owner) showing up in HijackThis is usually a virus/spyware, for example).
     
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    this seems to be a common thing. I had it for a while and now I don't. I've been updating video drivers lately and also updating using windows update don't know what made it stop but I had that going on too. The only prob I have now that happens once in awhile like the rundll one is the iw3mp.exe has stopped working or something like that from COD4. I always use cleandisk and Mcafee Quickclean and delete my browsing history daily at bed time before I put my laptop to sleep and I run scan maybe 3-4 times a week so I don't think it's a virus. just irritating.
     
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    Yeah I have done like 8 macfee scans and nothing turns up the same with windows defender scan. I guess its just my drivers.
     
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    I've had the same issue with alot of games I play. On both my notebook and desktop, when I exit some games it'll give me that "this program has stopped responding". It's not a virus, or anything like that for sure, I think it's driver related but what I don't understand is why it does this on both notebook and desktop. It's kind of anoying though, because obviously it stopped responding because you just shut it off..