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If you can get the name of the .dll, you than can try a search and find a location. If you do not find it, them most likely a program was removed at some point, but the uninstall did not clean up very well.
Besides the tools already mentioned, you can do it the manual way.
Go to this spot in the registry.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run
This is where all of the programs are started up when the OS first comes up. You basically have to go through each one and figure out what each line is. You would be amazed at how much crap (automatic update programs) gets put in there over the years.
In addition, you have the Start->All Programs->Startup folder which is the second place programs load automatically.
Go through both of these and delete the ones you are no longer using or don't need. If you do not know what they are, just do a file search on the file name and see what directory comes up. From there you should be able to figure out what is loading.
The only other place that could be loading the .dll is in the Control Panel->Services window. This is much harder to figure out as you need to go through each service and see which ones are set to start automatically, but are not actually running. This is probably the service that failed to start.
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