Hi serge, Tufenuf, Phil, hi everyone, >I have just reboot my computer and i have >again the same problem... >"windows cannot find Dust.exe" Often, there's an intermediate program ie a program is called by a RUN key in the registry and this program launches Dust.exe. You won't find dust.exe on the disk because Windows tells you it cannot find it! Instead try to find the line in a system file that calls the culprit, some clues: - delete any useless file (cookies, Temp, Temporary Internet Files) then empty the recycler bin then run a Registry cleaner such as JV16PT or RegSeeker - reboot and if the issue is still there - look at all of the locations used to start a program... you'll find a page on my site -> Programs at Startup... remember, you are looking for something that's unusual, not necessarily Dust.exe! To know what's unusual, have a look at the links I give there -> StartUp Lists Have a good day, Gérard from Paris, France

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The 3 dust.exe files i found on my pc were easy to del..but I also had a popup on windows re star "error can not find dust.exe" go to the root of C:\ and edit autoexec.bat, you will find an entry in there called dust.exe. remove and save file. Next go to start, run. regedit. Search for dust.exe. under shell you will see explorer.exe dust.exe (sneaky f---er). right click the entry and modify ....remove the dust.exe from the end of explorer and save. Reboot and all should be well.

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I have also downloaded a file from Kazaa- normally I am careful about what I download- but this was camo'ed as something else. I have tried all the suggestions above and in other posts- and I am still getting this message at windows startup. "dust.exe or one of its associated programs not found" I am using 98 incase this is any difference- but I cannot find any more references to dust within the registery. I am using a registery program to no avail. Any more suggestions would be very much appreciated :)

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Hi serge, Tufenuf, Phil, cb-uk, John, hi everyone, cb-uk, thanks for your post! I hope it will help solve the problem! John, consider cb-uk's post (REM a line in C:\Autoexec.bat). If it doesn't work, follow my suggestions in response #7 (checking plenty of system files able to launch a program at Windows start). Post back! HTH Have a good day, Gérard from Paris, France

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Thanks again Gérard for your help, with your wonderful web site i have cleaned all register and spyware programs in my PC. Thank you, Thank you, thank you!!!

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Hi serge, Tufenuf, Phil, cb-uk, John, hi everyone, You're welcome serge! Thank you for your kind words! Have a good day, Gérard from Paris, France

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I tried everything and finally solved the "can't find dust.exe" message at startup. Make sure you delete everything to do with "dust.exe" from the registry and from all other files. Remove any "application" files in Kazaa you've downloaded around the time the problem started. Then I (Windows Me) went <start> <msconfig> <system.ini>, then open the + sign next to "boot", find the line "shell=Explorer.exe Dust.exe", right click on this line and delete the "dust.exe" part only. The computer said I had to reboot and when I did the problem was gone. I hope this helps! Take care...

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Hi, I've had the same problem with my windows XP proffesional version. I solved it by running AVG-virusscanner (www.grisoft.com (it's free)) and then deleting al dust.exe files and/or maps. then I did this:go to run, type in regedit. click on hkey_local_machine, click + sign next to it, scroll down list till you see software. click + sign again to expand the list. scroll down to microsoft and expand that also. scroll down list till you see windows nt, and expand that folder also, click the + sign by current version. and last scroll down list till you see winlogon and highlight that folder, don't click the + sign on this one. to the right there will be a list. scroll down that list and you should have an entry called shell. it should read explore.exe. if there is an entry behind it, it needs too be removed. to change the entry right click shell and choose modify. under value data type in explore.exe and then click okay. reboot your computer. It helped me so maybe it will help you Take care, Marco Nuijens

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