Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Error message: SmartBridge Alerts: MotiveSB.exe - Entry Point Not Found

If you see the error message "SmartBridge Alerts: MotiveSB.exe – Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point GetProcessImageFileNameW could not be located in the dynamic link library PSAPI.DLL" at startup or when trying to run some application this post will be of considerable use for you as here you’ll find out how to solve this problem.
SmartBridge is a communications program which is used by a lot of Internet Service Providers including AOL. Motive SB.exe is not malicious program. This is a legal program which sometimes stops working for several reasons. SmartBridge Motive Sb.exe is known to be part of Broadband Medic diagnostic tools, BT Broadband, BT Desktop, BT Help, NTL Smartbridge, some HP printer drivers, etc.
Most users see SmartBridge Alert about GetProcessImageFileNameW procedure entry point when they install Internet Explorer 7 or some other software that modifies files SmartBridge uses. The most often modified file is PSAPI.DLL. Newly installed software puts another version of this file into Windows folder and MotiveSB program uses this file instead of the one that was provided with its installation. New PSAPI.DLL has another entry point of GetProcessImageFileNameW procedure so Motive SB.exe which loads on windows startup can't work properly.
If you are an advanced user you can solve problems related to MotiveSB.exe manually. Use Msconfig.exe utility to remove all programs using psapi.dll from startup. You should manually investigate which programs use this DLL. As a rule Motive SB.exe program does not appear at startup itself. Search for related programs and services instead. There is also the second solution: you should delete all copies of psapi.dll in your system except of the one which is used by your SmartBridge applications. However, this can stop other applications which use newer version of this DLL from working properly. You definitely SHOULD NOT touch PSAPI.DLL located in C:\Windows\System32 folder. Search for other instances isntead. After deleting or renaming all other instances of this DLL reboot your PC. Please note that this can cause instability of your system if wrong DLL is deleted.
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