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This clarifies that the culprit is indeed SABKUTIL, which is a component of SuperAdBlocker. That’s what you tried to uninstall?
There’s another thing you could try. The error message is saying that the system is trying to load a driver called SABKUTIL at startup time, but is unable to do so – probably because the actual file has been deleted, but there is still a reference to it in the registry.
I can understand your reluctance to fiddle with the registry, as one false move there could ruin your computer. But you may be able to stop the system from trying to load SABKUTIL. Do you know about a program called Autoruns? This is a little program which will list out everything which wants to run at startup time, and it gives the options of disabling or deleting any item. If you don’t have it already, you can download it from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx . It will come as a zip file, which you will have to unpack, but once you have the executable file, autoruns.exe, you can just run it – there’s no installation
Run the program, wait until it has finished scanning your system (it will say “ready” when finished), and then click on the “everything” tab. On the top menu, go to File > Find, and in the search box, type in SABKUTIL and click on Find Next. With any luck, it will find an entry. If it does, remove the tick from the left hand side of the line, quit out of Autoruns, and reboot. That should fix it. If it does, go back into Autoruns, find the unticked entry for SABKUTIL, right-click the line, and delete it.
Just be careful when using Autoruns, because you could accidentally disable or delete something else. If it doesn’t find an entry for SABKUTIL, just quit without doing anything
Sorry it took me sooo long to finally download Autoruns & post back.
Got it done yesterday. Mine must be a newer version than you have because the ‘Everything tab’ was preselected (I guess) so I just did the scan without selecting anything & it did find 2 entries for SABKUTIL. I unticked both, rebooted, looked in Event Viewer & that Error is gone. I haven’t gone back to Autoruns yet to delete, want to run the machine a day or two first.
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Snap! I’ve been away from here too long & now with so many replies it’s gonna take me forever to read & reply back.
There was something posted about SAS which reminded me that I did have it also at the same time as SAB & ‘think maybe’ I Uninstalled both approximately the same time frame. Seems like there was a ‘leftover’ of SAS in Events also for a short time but now can’t remember what I did to resolve that one. :o, sorry, CRS big time.
As for doing a re-install to then use Revo, I don’t know the version,etc. that I had & have (except for the SABKUTIL) gotten rid of anything pertaining to either program other than a couple things I found recently but don’t know if that would help. I’ll try to post a shot of them. I did go into ‘Manage Add-ons’ & disabled it but still get the error in Events.
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oops, I don’t remember what version it was, only that it was a ‘trial version’ & now that I’ve done so much deleting in trying to get rid if it, the only reference (other than the 3 empty folders in RB) I see in machine is the install & uninstall dates in the list of System Restore in CCleaner. That was back in mid August & I really don’t think I want to restore my PC back that far & have to go thru all the re-installing of Windows Updates that have been done since then. Or am I that much ‘in the dark’ as to how System Restore works?
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