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The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 8:04 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) After 137 posts, I would think you would be aware of this: Here's how your posts look: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1235351928 The first 2 paragraphs here are worth reading: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1217046552 In addition, when you get an *error message*, you don't have to make up your own Subject line. The **actual** error message you get is an EXCELLENT Subject line. Rudy Kreubel wrote: |All of a sudden my Windows Media Player won't work. | Tried to do a Win98 update recently? Done a scan for malware lately? Updated your malware killer(s) lately? |When I try to start it I get this message: |Error Starting Program |The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW |What does all this mean and how can I get my Media Player working again. | Internet Exploder has its fingers into everything. Now it's broken and you need to get it fixed. Try these things: Replace the broken file. (Substitute the name of your broken file.) http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1077920343 or Repair IE. http://annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1042512703 Install the most recent version of Internet Exploder that will work under Win98. http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/6.0_SP1 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 8:46 pm Posted by Rudy Kreubel (150 messages posted) My 98 machine is not hooked up to the net. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW Monday, February 23, 2009 at 1:20 am Posted by Arminius (334 messages posted) If your hard drive is losing files that is not a good sign. First look in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder to see if SHLWAPI.DLL is still there. If the file is missing then download the latest cumulative security update for your version of Internet Explorer and your version of Win98. The latest version of SHLWAPI.DLL for your system will be included. You will find links to the most recent patches for IE on win98 here: http://erpman1.tripod.com/iewmpupd.html Note that the updates on this page are for 98SE not the original 98. If you are using 98 first edition you will have troll through Microsoft's Internet Explorer website to find the final official patch. Lotsa luck. If you are using your win98 computer offline and have no plans to connect it to the internet then I wouldn't go any higher than Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 on win98. On my computer I noticed that Windows Explorer was LESS STABLE after installing IE6 or IE6SP1. That goes for both 98FE and 98SE. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Meadialess Player Monday, February 23, 2009 at 4:32 am Posted by Keith Stanier (4 messages posted) Rudy Kreubel wrote: |All of a sudden my Windows Media Player won't work. When I try to start it I get |this message: |Error Starting Program |The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing |export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW |OK |What does all this mean and how can I get my Media Player working again. Thanks Well you haven't said which version of Windows Media Player you are using. Open Windows Explorer and goto Program Files\Windows Media Player and right-click on Wmplayer.exe and check the version number. If its the default install then I think it will be v6.4. Download and install Windows Media Player 9.0 for Win9x of Microsoft, its 13,000Kb. Windows Media Player 9.0 for Win9x If you computer isn't connected to the web then your going to have to save it to a USB flash drive thats compatible with Win9x. Then you will need to install drivers for this particular pen drive. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW Monday, February 23, 2009 at 11:34 am Posted by Rudy Kreubel (150 messages posted) Thank you, Arminius, for that. You've given me a lot of valuable information. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Meadialess Player Monday, February 23, 2009 at 11:53 am Posted by Rudy Kreubel (150 messages posted) Hi, Kieth, thanks for your valuable information. The version of my Media Player is 6.4.09.1123, which was put out in 1999(?) I think. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Meadialess Player Monday, February 23, 2009 at 1:44 pm Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) Rudy Kreubel wrote: |Hi, Kieth, thanks for your valuable information. The version of my Media Player |is 6.4.09.1123, which was put out in 1999(?) I think. Yes v6.4 is the default installation for Win98SE. I've been using WMP 9.0 for the past 3 years without any problems so download and install. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW Monday, February 23, 2009 at 2:22 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) gewg_ wrote: ||[...]Internet Exploder has its fingers into everything. ||Now it's broken and you need to get it fixed[...] Rudy Kreubel wrote: |My 98 machine is not hooked up to the net. You seem to think that Internet Explorer is ONLY a Web browser. That is dangerously naive. When I said "into everything", I meant that what is called "Internet Explorer" is used by Windoze for MANY things. This was a point made by the prosecution in the US Supreme Court case United States vs Microsoft:[1] http://www.google.com/search? q=Mr-Fortini-here-is-advocating-taking-non-browsing-*-features-*-*-*-*-out-of-MSHTML From that same document: http://www.google.com/search?q=SHLWAPI+inurl:0610a http://www.google.com/search? q=Does-IE-*-distribute-these-so-called-core-DLL's++Yes-All-of-them If you are going to SECOND-GUESS every answer you get instead of clicking the links provided then reading what they say and following the directions, you can expect to have this problem forever. [1] ...where Microsoft's conviction of abusing their OS monopoly was upheld. It's a shame our corrupt politicians (e.g. Dubya) wouldn't enforce the verdict. The European Union, OTOH, *is* taking actions against M$ --but even they are snail-slow. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Meadialess Player Monday, February 23, 2009 at 5:02 pm Posted by Rudy Kreubel (150 messages posted) Thanks, Kieth. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW Monday, February 23, 2009 at 5:03 pm Posted by Rudy Kreubel (150 messages posted) Thanks for all of the information, gewg. I'm not second-guessing anything. I am happy to get assistance from people, and I will look up all of the links that have been provided. Getting other viewpoints will help me, I hope, find out just what caused this problem in the first place, and also fix it. Thanks [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW Monday, February 23, 2009 at 6:14 pm Posted by Arminius (334 messages posted) Let us know what you did to fix the problem. Useful information like: "Yes, SHLWAPI.DLL was missing", or "no, SHLWAPI.DLL is still there". Or "after installing WMP9, it works again". [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW Monday, February 23, 2009 at 7:25 pm Posted by Rudy Kreubel (150 messages posted) Hi, Arminius , I will report the results of the repairs. I really got a terrific response from all of you and will go through your advice with a fine tooth comb. Computers just don't go silly, it's human action that causes the problems. I've done something wrong, but what? I'll see if I can find the answers. Cheers [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 3:41 pm Posted by Rudy Kreubel (150 messages posted) Hi, I tried to reinstall IE6 but the system wouldn't allow that. It wanted access to the Net, which is no longer possible for this machine. I reloaded the Media Player. That did nothing. Finally I reloaded Windows 98. That fixed the Media Player problem but killed my flash drive driver. The system crashed every time I tried to reload the universal flash drive driver. Without a flash drive, the system is useless. So I have decided to trash my W98 machine. Should have done it ages ago. Cheers [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 6:06 pm Posted by Arminius (334 messages posted) I think you gave up too easily. You have everything you need to do a complete reinstall backed up on CD right? Of course you have to reinstall the driver for your flash drive. You have a copy of that handy too right? There is no point in running Win 98 these days unless you have a specific reason for doing so, but there is no need to trash your computer. If you have a Pentium III or higher you can always install Windows 2000. You don't come across as someone who would build your own computer so I guess you will be buying a shiny new machine with Vista preinstalled. I am looking forward to reading your posts in the Vista section. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: The COMDLG32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:SHRegGetValueW Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 8:17 pm Posted by Rudy Kreubel (150 messages posted) Oh hi, Arminius, Perhaps I was a little hasty. I'm like that sometimes. Now that I've cooled off, I will tackle the problem again. Only now, there are even more problems to tackle with the machine. I will ruminate on it for a couple of days and work out a plan of attack. Cheers [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Meadialess Player Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 11:14 pm Posted by Lee (172 messages posted) Here is what it means. COMDLG32.DLL is calling for a function named SHRegGetValueW that COMDLG32.DLL thinks is inside the SHLWAPI.DLL file. It isn't. And that's where the error report comes from. I know because I have and used Dependency Walker on the 98 IE 6.00 SP1 SHLWAPI.DLL file and sure enough, that particular function is not there. It probably is there in that file in a higer version of Windows no doubt, which means that your current COMDLG32.DLL is from the wrong platform than the one that you are currently using. How did you do that? Not connected to the net and all... And just as an aside, one can not fire up Windows without a working Shlwapi.dll file, it will refuse to live. So it was always there and the problem was not with it in the first place. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Meadialess Player Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 11:46 pm Posted by Rudy Kreubel (150 messages posted) OK. My W98 machine, as did a lot of other machines, had problems with malaware. Windows 98 wasn't that great an operating system either. I stayed with it for a while, then upgraded with another machine to XP. I did not see a valid reason to hook two machines onto the Net, so only my XP machine is attached to the Internet. I still use my W98 machine, or should that be "used", to do all of my hard work on such thlings as writing letters, etc. I would then import my work to the XP machine through a flash drive. Once the problems occured, I reloaded W98 to try and repair fault. That created even more problems by eliminating all of my imported drivers. When I tried to reload them, all hell broke loose and now I have a dead computer. Does that anwser your aside? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Meadialess Player Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 7:51 am Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) Rudy Kreubel wrote: |I reloaded W98 to try and repair fault. That created even more problems by eliminating |all of my imported drivers. When I tried to reload them, all hell broke loose and |now I have a dead computer. Does that anwser your aside? I knew it would cause a problem trying to reinstall, it causes more problems than it fixes as you have now found out. You are better of doing a format and a fresh install. Thats way your drive gets checked for errors with Format.com. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Meadialess Player Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 9:07 am Posted by Rudy Kreubel (150 messages posted) The formatting is not problem. I would, however, like to find some way to rescue the files that I have on the machine first. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Meadialess Player Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 1:52 pm Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) Rudy Kreubel wrote: |The formatting is not problem. I would, however, like to find some way to rescue |the files that I have on the machine first. So why is that a problem to you? Just burn them to a CD or copy them to a flash drive. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Meadialess Player Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 1:54 pm Posted by Arminius (334 messages posted) Pull out the hard drive of the win98 computer and connect it to your XP computer as a slave. Then you will be able to copy your files from one drive to another. Make sure the jumpers on the drives are in the correct postions for MASTER and SLAVE for each drive. The position varies between manufacturers. The information of where to position the jumper should be on each of the drives. And after you are finished copying, don't forget to return the jumpers to their original positions after you disconnect them. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Transfer files to my new box? (USB not working) Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 3:40 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) Rudy Kreubel wrote: ||The formatting is not [the] problem. || It appears you STILL haven't read this: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1217046552 It sounds like the problem you are having is M$'s lousy USB support under Win98. You haven't describe the **method** you are using to install the USB driver --and especially whether or not you Remove the previous attempt from Device Manager before trying again. In addition, if it's just a crappy USB device driver you are trying to install (because you misplaced the one that previously worked well) a *generic/universal* USB device driver for Win98 has been discussed here before: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site:annoyances.org+"+nathan+lineback" ||I would, however, like to find some way ||to rescue the files that I have on the machine first. Keith Stanier wrote: |So why is that a problem to you? |Just burn them to a CD or copy them to a flash drive. | For those not paying attention: He said the big problem with the reinstall was that he lost USB so "sneakernet" (which he said he had been using) isn't an option any more. ...and ISO9660 (the filesystem on CDs)--even with extensions--doesn't support filenames longer than 128 characters (ASCII) or 64 characters (Unicode) --so, that _could_ be a limitation (typically, copying Favorites). The simplest way to transfer files is to email them to yourself. This is clumsy and could be complicated by a slow Internet connection speed. It also exposes a Win9x box to the perils of the Internet. The next easiest way (without getting any extra stuff) is (as Arminius said) mounting the HDD as a slave in the box to receive the data. Substituting it temporarily for the CD drive could avoid buying extra cables. Another way is "Direct Cable Connection": (You may have to buy hardware.) cache of http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4993 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transfer files to my new box? (USB not working) Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 6:52 pm Posted by Rudy Kreubel (150 messages posted) Hi, gewg. All of you have come up with a wealth of advice and I thank you all for it. Now referring to those drivers: I have two universal generic drivers. I couldn't remember which one actually did the trick last time. I tried to load each one in turn manually, but I vaguely remember now that they didn't "like" each other. This might have caused some of the latest trouble because I did not attempt to remove one before trying to install the other. Well, whatever, the damage is done now. I have tried to run the w98 computer with a normal start and it now goes straight into "Install W98 mode." It gets to the install hardware part and then comes up with error messages. I could print them out for you if you like. When one goes through the messages, it always ends up with the computer either freezing or shutting down. Actually putting the "Installation disc" in also ends up with the same result. I also used the boot disc that I had made and selected to "start with CD ROM assistance". This got me into DOS mode. I still remember my DOS. But the problem here is that I can't get the computer to change its directory to the C (hard ) drive. It refuses. It stays with the A (floppy) drive. Phew. It appears that the suggestion of taking the drives out of the W98 computer and piggy-backing them onto the C drive in my XP machine might be the only solution. I'm just not sure how to do this. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transfer files to my new box? (USB not working) Monday, March 2, 2009 at 5:41 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) Rudy Kreubel wrote: [blob] I've asked you twice to make your posts more readable. I'm tired of asking and I won't strain my old eyes reading your blobs. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Transfer files to my new box? (USB not working) Monday, March 2, 2009 at 8:52 pm Posted by Rudy Kreubel (150 messages posted) Perhaps you should wash your hands of this blob, gewg. I tried my best to convey as much information as possible. Obviously this has offended your sensibilities. Thank you for your help. Cheers Rudy [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum