cant seem to find anything helpful on this on the internet so hopefully one of you guys can help. i accidently hit the sleep mode button on my keyboard the other day.. my puter went to sleep and wouldnt wake up. i had to turn it off by holding the power button in. when i started back up i got an error message of "run a dll as an app has encountered a problem and needs to close..." and my internet connection said that a network cable is unplugged. i double checked all the plugs and restarted the modem. tried a system restore. went to the device manager and uninstalled/reinstalled the network card. also, i am running xp pro. anyone have any ideas as to how to rectify this? thanks!

Sounds like "run a dll as an app" is a program trying to run in the background, and is conflicting with other software currently running on your comp. Try going to Start>Control Panel>Add or Remove programs, and see if that is on the list. If so, try removing it. Or, you could try downloading Lavasoft's AdAware SE personal (it's a free download) and run that along with AVG Antivirus (also a free download). I recommend everyone to use those or similar programs bi-weekly at least.