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i was chatting with a friend and then messenger exited (not gracefully) by itself.
tried opening msnmsgr again and got this error:



notice how my task manager has nothing in the user name column.
Googling "RmmoveDirectoryW" doesn't give me anything...

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just happened with firefox... (just closed, but no error)

RmmoveDirectoryW???

That sounds like it should have been RemoveDirectoryW, no wonder it can't find it

EDIT: FireFox? What is FireFox doing with Messenger?

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
RmmoveDirectoryW???

That sounds like it should have been RemoveDirectoryW, no wonder it can't find it

EDIT: FireFox? What is FireFox doing with Messenger?

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firefox started closing ~5 mins after i opened it
not happening with IE

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Originally posted by roflmao456

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
RmmoveDirectoryW???

That sounds like it should have been RemoveDirectoryW, no wonder it can't find it

EDIT: FireFox? What is FireFox doing with Messenger?

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firefox started closing ~5 mins after i opened it
not happening with IE

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That error comes from 1 program, so you wont have it with another program. Like I said it is 'simply' a typo in the internal code of a program, plugin, script, whatever which manipulates Messenger.

It could be Messenger itself too, though I doubt that since you say you only have it when you open/have opened FireFox.

If you say it is FireFox you could search all the files of FireFox (including its plugins) and Messenger with a hex editor (don't use something like Windows' search) for the ANSI and UNICODE string of "rmmove". When you find the culprint file you could try to change it to "remove" with a hex editor as an experiment.

Something like that can't be fixed by yourself (unless the above method worked miracously.. lol), unless you install everything and/or remove recently installed stuff like plugins and programs. So a question would be: what have you installed, downloaded, changed, etc recently?

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
what have you installed, downloaded, changed, etc recently?

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downloaded/installed War Rock (game)
i changed nothing in bios/system

so basically i just installed war rock and that's it lol
i don't think it has anything to do with msnmsgr

i have StuffPlug 3 and MP!L (never caused a problem before)

I doubt this will help but it's worth a read.

http://www.5starsupport.com/info/kernel32.htm

Download dependency walker - should be the first hit on Google. Next, open up msnmsgr.exe and see if it is looking for that reference. If it's not, then it's either a script or plus (as Cookie said) looking for something which doesn't exist. If it is, then your installation has been corrupted.

Have you tried an uninstall/reinstall of WLM yet? Also try removing plus and see if it starts working [as well as SP].

I'd be looking at doing a virus scan as well - RemoveDirectoryW is a wrapper to the API RemoveDirectory, which... removes a directory, funnily enough.

I actually doubt that this is a fault in Messenger or in Messenger Plus! itself. There isn't such an entry anywhere in either program nor its libraries.... So I doubt that reinstalling those will help.

PS: Messenger will use kernel32.dll by default, just like almost every program will.

The thing you need to find out is what causes Messenger to call a misspelled function. And since I can't find any reference of "rmmove..." in most of Messenger's versions or its libraries I suspect some injected code or code which is exacuted from within the Messenger process (eg: scripts)

Granted, I didn't checked everything and every version though.

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Originally posted by Justin
I doubt this will help but it's worth a read.
http://www.5starsupport.com/info/kernel32.htm

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This isn't an error from kernel32.dll. That link is interesting but doesn't have anything todo with the presented error here; his kernel32.dll is fine. The error comes from Messenger and clearly states that some process in Messenger attempted to call a function which doesn't exists.


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Originally posted by roflmao456
notice how my task manager has nothing in the user name column.

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That can be quite normal and happens when the Terminal Service isn't started. By default this services' startup type is set to Automatic and is started.

To set it like it was by default:
1) Start > Run > Services.msc
2) Locate 'Terminal Services' and double click it to go to its properties
3) Set the Startup type to 'Automatic', and click 'Apply'
4) Now click the 'Start' button on that dialog to start the service

Note: you can also set it to 'Manual' if you wish. In that case it's only started when it's needed.

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