KhunRoger

I've just had this problem for a few hours and fixed it by undoing what I had done. I had tried to install "Visual Basic 6 Enterprise Edition" and it failed with the error "pdm.dll was unable to register itself in the system registry". I searched the internet and one guy (bless his cotton socks) said that he got the installation to work by renaming the existing "pdm.dll" files he found in "Windows\system32" and in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG". So I did the same. (Silly me.) It didn't fix the VB 6 installation problem, but I noticed after rebooting that I got an unusual message: "Windows Configuring Data Access" on startup, and decided it was time to do a restore. That's when I saw the blank "System Restore" screen and rushed to the toilet. So, to fix my problem, I renamed the "pdm.dll.old" files back to "pdm.dll" and the blank screen problem went away The two files are: (1) In C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG PDM.DLL 176 KB 13/10/2004 18:46 (2) C:\WINDOWS\system32 PDM.DLL 180 KB 18/06/1998 00:00 Both file names are in upper case, the one in system32 is very old and I don't know where it came from! I hope this helps someone with this problem.