Need help solving RPCSS.EXE errors on boot

stevelundberg · 03-07-2005, 11:01 PM

I've squashed many spyware items on this Win'98 system (eTower 533i) with help from HijackThis, SpybotS&D and AdAware, but now I'm getting errors on startup and when starting MSIE.

Here's the symptom:
When Windows98 starts up it throws the following errors once, then again several times after the desktop displays.
#1
Titlebar: "MS Visual C++ Runtime Library"
Message: "Runtime error! Program: C:\WINDOWS SYSTEM\RPCSS.EXE This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the applications support team for more information."
#2
Msg: "RPCSS: This program has performed an illegal operation..."
Details: RPCSS has caused a page fault in OLE32.DLL ...

There are two MS Kbase articles that address my symptom (192015 and 191901) which suggest disabling Remote Connection in the Default Security tab of DCOMCNFG. Problem being: DCOMCNFG.EXE isn't on my system disk -- only DCOMCNFG.CHM and DCOMCNFG.HLP can be found when searching for "DCOM" on the C-drive!

Accepting all advice.
Thanks. -SteveL-

03-07-2005, 11:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
stevelundberg Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2 OS: win2000	Need help solving RPCSS.EXE errors on boot I've squashed many spyware items on this Win'98 system (eTower 533i) with help from HijackThis, SpybotS&D and AdAware, but now I'm getting errors on startup and when starting MSIE. Here's the symptom: When Windows98 starts up it throws the following errors once, then again several times after the desktop displays. #1 Titlebar: "MS Visual C++ Runtime Library" Message: "Runtime error! Program: C:\WINDOWS SYSTEM\RPCSS.EXE This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the applications support team for more information." #2 Msg: "RPCSS: This program has performed an illegal operation..." Details: RPCSS has caused a page fault in OLE32.DLL ... There are two MS Kbase articles that address my symptom (192015 and 191901) which suggest disabling Remote Connection in the Default Security tab of DCOMCNFG. Problem being: DCOMCNFG.EXE isn't on my system disk -- only DCOMCNFG.CHM and DCOMCNFG.HLP can be found when searching for "DCOM" on the C-drive! Accepting all advice. Thanks. -SteveL-