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Cowboy69 · Apr 01, 2007

A friend of mine messaged me yesterday asking about her icons most of them were the plain white boxes with blue border , then said she didnt know what had happened but her brother and sister both had used her computer while she was at work and when she got home the icons looked like that and she said her computer was running soooooooo slow , she then told me she tried a restore and that didnt fix anything then while we were talking she disappeared lol when she got back she told me her computer rebooted on its own and the following message appeared
RTHDCPL.EXE Illegal System DLL Relocation , The System DLL user32.dll
was relocated in memory. The application will not run properly, The relocation occured because the DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\HHCTRL.OCX occupied an adress range reserved for WINDOWS system DLLs. The vendor supplying the DLL should be contacted for a new DLL, I searhed around and found out microsoft has a patch for this problem , I'm just curious if anyone else has had this happen and knows the cause , from what i have read it only happened to most ppl after windows update ,Thanks

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

Wonder what OS she has? Probably XP. No, I have not had that happen to me, sounds scary. Does she have her PC set to update automatically? It could be because of an update. My first thought was a virus or Trojan, who knows where her brother and sister went on the web. LOL

So did she get it fixed do you know?

sunny

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

WOW! There seem to be no lack of informations, must be happening a LOT!

RTHDCPL.EXE Illegal System DLL Relocation

sunny

Cowboy69 · Apr 01, 2007

Yea i did a search on it and found the patch and shes all set , yes shes using xp and her brothers a lil perv always crusing porn sites when he sneaks on it i thought same as you a virus or trojan but it was just cos of update and she did have set to automatic update whats weird is microsoft knew of the problem and released the update anyway then made a fix for it go figure lol

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

Katy · Sep 28, 2004

Your friend needs to set her computer up so anyone else is blocked from signing in

~^Karen^~ · Nov 26, 2006

A Friend of mine, had this same problem, she sed she got it through an update from microsoft Rolling Eyes

I told her if thats the case to uninstall it, as she dont know much about pcs and problems!! As i only know her from msn i wasnt really able to help her through what she was telling me!

Karen · Jan 06, 2006

I think we are getting this too!
I noticed yesterday a message saying an illegal relocation...grr

Just did the update from Microsoft and its all fine now Smile

Cowboy69 · Apr 01, 2007

Yea after she got it, I read up on it and seems to be quite the problem for alot of people , automatic updates may be fine for some but thats one reason I dont enable mine I just check once a week or so and grab the ones I choose

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

I don't auto update either, I too like to wait a few days and read the boards looking to see if others are having any problems first.

sunny