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Missing .DLL file - do I need an emergency boot disk? Help!
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Missing .DLL file - do I need an emergency boot disk? Help!
Friday, July 16, 2004 at 6:45 pm
Posted by MikeM
(1 messages posted)
i tried to download a newer version of Internet Explorer on my 4 year old desktop
and somehow I corrupted/deleted a required .DLL file - now I can't even get into
windows. I get a message saying "required .DLL file : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\COMCTL32.DLL
NOT FOUND" - and then I get a blank screen. I tried rebooting into Safe Mode, but
same thing happened. I hear I might need to create an emergency boot disk - can
I do that on my laptop that has XP? Can anyone help?? Thanks!
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re: Missing .DLL file - do I need an emergency boot disk? Help!
Friday, July 16, 2004 at 9:35 pm
Posted by Donna R
(437 messages posted)
go back a few messages to one posted on Thursday
"Can't get pass explorer.exe error message"
for the boot disk, you can download one from your laptop at http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
save it to disk (to a folder) then put a floppy in the a drive, find the file and
double click it.
On Friday, July 16, 2004 at 6:45 pm, MikeM wrote:
>i tried to download a newer version of Internet Explorer on my 4 year old desktop
>and somehow I corrupted/deleted a required .DLL file - now I can't even get into
>windows. I get a message saying "required .DLL file : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\COMCTL32.DLL
>NOT FOUND" - and then I get a blank screen. I tried rebooting into Safe Mode, but
>same thing happened. I hear I might need to create an emergency boot disk - can
>I do that on my laptop that has XP? Can anyone help?? Thanks!
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Maybe try this
Sunday, July 18, 2004 at 3:38 am
Posted by Don
(246 messages posted)
You might try this:
Use your favorite search engine to see if you can find and download COMCTL32.DLL
on your laptop . Put it on a floppy. Boot your desktop to a command prompt only
(F8 during the boot process). Put in the floppy. then:
A: enter
at the A: prompt,
copy A:\COMCTL32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
Remove the floppy after the copy is completed (no activity on the drive light for
the a drive). Reboot the pc.
Should work, if there is no further corruption.
Take care
Don
On Friday, July 16, 2004 at 6:45 pm, MikeM wrote:
>i tried to download a newer version of Internet Explorer on my 4 year old desktop
>and somehow I corrupted/deleted a required .DLL file - now I can't even get into
>windows. I get a message saying "required .DLL file : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\COMCTL32.DLL
>NOT FOUND" - and then I get a blank screen. I tried rebooting into Safe Mode, but
>same thing happened. I hear I might need to create an emergency boot disk - can
>I do that on my laptop that has XP? Can anyone help?? Thanks!
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re: .dll file replacement
Monday, July 19, 2004 at 8:23 am
Posted by Firefly
(167 messages posted)
You can find Comctl32.dll here:http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/index.shtml.
On Sunday, July 18, 2004 at 3:38 am, Don wrote:
>You might try this:
>Use your favorite search engine to see if you can find and download COMCTL32.DLL
>on your laptop . Put it on a floppy. Boot your desktop to a command prompt only
>(F8 during the boot process). Put in the floppy. then:
>A: enter
>at the A: prompt,
>copy A:\COMCTL32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
>
>Remove the floppy after the copy is completed (no activity on the drive light for
>the a drive). Reboot the pc.
>
>Should work, if there is no further corruption.
>Take care
>Don
>
>
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