Thanks Peter!
This did it. VGX.dll was zero length, so of course did nothing much useful.
I deleted it, Windows recreated it and end of problem.
I still do not understand why this affected only some messages and not
others. I guess these contained something that needed vgx.
Danny
"Peter.R" wrote:
> In XP, after deleting vgx.dll from C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\VGX, the file was quickly recreated. In W7 however, it was only recreated after I ran sfc /scannow (from an elevated Command Prompt).
>
> --
> Peter.R
> (Windows Live Mail 2009 14.0.8089.726 on Windows 7 Home Premium)
> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare
>
> "Peter.R" <Peter.R@NoMail.inv> wrote in message news:OYyMn4DcKHA.2184@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >
> > vgx.dll lives at C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\VGX and is part of Internet Explorer.
> >
> > So start by doing what you need to do to fix IE according to your version of Windows and IE...
> >
> > --
> > Peter.R
> > (Windows Live Mail 2009 14.0.8089.726 on Windows 7 Home Premium)
> > "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare
> >
> > "Danny" <Danny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:96108181-4B02-44FF-9034-756C4529A4A1@microsoft.com...
> >>
> >> This is happening on my wife's computer:
> >>
> >> For *some* mails only, when she hits 'reply' or 'reply all' everything freezes, an hourglass shows and an error message appears, syaing that "vgx.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette"
> >>
> >> All other open programs won't work either.
> >> The mouse still functions, so I can close WLM and start over.
> >> I tried repairing the WLM installation, but the problem stays.
> >>
> >> I was not able to find anything illuminating on vgx.dll, nor able to find this error message on the Microsoft site.
> >>
> >> Any help?
> >>
> >> thanks, Danny