I am running Windows 98SE on a KT133 motherboard with 256Mb RAM, AMD Duron 900 chip, and 40 GB HDD. Lately when Windows starts, a message window comes up which says: ‘Unable to load dynamic link library msnp32.dll. The system cannot find the file specified. Some or all of the following feature is not available: Microsoft Network’. When I click OK, it goes away obediently, and things then proceed normally. I haven’t noticed anything unusual as a result of the file not being loaded. Can you throw any light as to why the message has begun appearing, and, if it does not really affect my working, how to get rid of the message?

This problem is quite easily fixed by extracting a new copy of MSNP32.DLL from your original Windows disk. You can find instructions on how to do this at support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q243431.