Cannot find ESS.BAT

[longside1]

Hi folks,

When I boot up my PC I get the above error message. Can anyone tell me what it means and how to resolve the problem. I have done a search on Google but found nothing.

Its really annoying me!

Thanks in advance guys

[Yzöwl]

There will very likely be an entry in the run section of your registry pointing to this file which is no longer there. From the examples I've seen with it, it is usually stored in the users registry.

Have a look for an entry here

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
  

You will probably find it under the value name update, with an entry pointing to its location in C:\WINDOWS\update\

Just delete that value and whilst your at it you can also delete the update directory in C:\WINDOWS.

Make sure you have a good up to date spyware scanner too!

[KJxp]

HijackThis is a good program for listing everything that runs at startup so you don't have to find it manually.

[Cartoonite]

Nice, two threads on the first page dealing with the same issue. I'll post a link here to the other one for those who are interested. I'll also post a link to this one in the other one. Three cheers for the search function.

See the other topic here.