See if former discussions noted a cure.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=pdbot.exe
It would be helpful if you told if this was a good guess at the events leading up to the problem.
Bob
550 P111 Win 98se , IE/OE6 ,eTrust antivirus ,Sygate firewall , 128 RAM .
On start up I get ? Error loading PDBot.exe. You must re-install windows .? Google tells me this file belongs to Power Defrag which I just loaded yesterday.( It didn?t work and I used my normal with 98 programs to do a scan + defrag through Safe Mode and shut down for the nite)I found the file in System .ini - the line reads ?shell=PDBot.exe.(I used my boot floppy to get there)
I think ,if I could delete that line or part of it , I would be able to boot normally and delete the program. I don?t know how.
I think you have to change the progam in wordpad and return it to its proper place(if you could get into the ,puter.
Help to get out of this mess would be greatly appreciated - I was in the process of replacing all my programs after a format and am a bit reluctant to do another one.

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