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missing file windows\system\shlwapi.dll
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Posted by chris (1 messages posted)

please help,after running a scan and repair via registry mechanic my laptop ,win 98se,failed to start,missing dll, windows\system\shlwapi.dll,reinstall windows,i have tried safe mode and reg restore,both leading to same message,also tried to extract file ,receive message invalid key,in the past i have been able to click undo on registry mechanic when file problems arose,although without being able to get to desktop,say no more,any ideas,greatly apreciated.

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re: missing file windows\system\shlwapi.dll
Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Posted by Lee (172 messages posted)

There is an outside chance that your shlwapi.dll file might be found in the System folder as a "Setup.xxxx" file where the "xxxx" part is a number. So DOS mode
dir c:\windows\system\setup*.*
might show it for a manual renaming attempt?? Otherwise...

Shlwapi.dll file will be contained in the latest IE cumulative update 916281 from MS. If 32 bit Windows didn't already need shlwapi.dll running, one could just reapply the update - but it DOES.

As it is, you will have to download the update, use WinZip on it to extract the shlwapi.dll file and move the file onto the target machine in DOS mode. THEN reapply the 916281 update to be very sure that everything got registered correctly.

I knew that there was a reason I never tried Registry Mechanic before this...

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