Symptom

When using Ad-Aware on Windows ME / 98, Ad-Aware.exe may crash with the error message "Exception EReadError in Modul in Ad-Aware.exe bei 00021FE7"

Cause

This error is most likely caused by a missing or old version of Richedit on your system.

Solution

Richedit dll files need to be installed on the system

The richedit dll files (riched20.dll & riched32.dll) can be downloaded from

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/download...nload0UHfPBXGeU

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/download...nload0UHfPBXHmO

Download the two zip files from the links provided above.

Unzip the files using an application such as winzip. You will get two files : (riched20.dll & riched32.dll)

Copy these files and paste them into c:\windows\system32 or c:\winnt\system32

Try to start up Ad-Aware again.