Kirk,

I'm Assuming That You Are Running Windows XP Home Edition, Correct? If So, The ONLY 
Answer I Can Come Up With Is To Obtain A Copy Of This File (rundll.exe) From Another 
Local XP User And Copy It To Your Hard Drive. I Would Send You A Copy, But I Don't 
Have ANY Machines Running XP In The Shop At The Moment. Check And See If You Can 
"Extract" A Copy Of The File From Your XP CD.

Be Careful Though, This MAY Be A Worm Virus Caused Situation. Do You Have An Anti-Virus 
Program (Like McAfee Or Norton) And Is It Up To Date? Have You Installed The Microsoft 
Patch For The "Worm Virus" That Has Been Causing So Much Trouble? Do You Have A Windows 
XP Firewall Set Up? If Not, You Should Have BOTH An Anti-Virus Program (I Preffer 
McAfee Anti-Virus Version 7 - I Haven't Tested Version 8 Yet), And Be Using The Firewall 
That Comes With Windows XP.

As Far As An "Un-Install", There Is NONE! Windows XP's System Restore Is Poor At 
Best, So That's Not Much Of An Option Either. Let Me Know What's What, OK?

Thank you,

John A. Dixon





On Saturday, September 20, 2003 at 12:35 am, Kirk Webber wrote:
>John,
>
>Hey, I have a big problem, and I think you maybe could help me out.  I go to Indiana 
>University, and their IT department sent this e-mail for all the students to go 
to 
>Windows Updates, search for any needed updates, and then download any critical updates. 
> Therefore, I downloaded and installed 3 cricitcal updates to my computer.  However, 
>now whenever my computer starts, it gives me the message "Cannot run C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll.exe"; 
>hence, none of my programs or files in the system 32 will work.  Therefore, I can't 
>do anything on my computer except run the files on my desktop.  I tried to remove 
>the updates, but I cannot even run my "Add or Remove Programs" in the Control Pannel 
>because it said it cannot find the file.  Also, I tried to do a system restore to 
>before I updated my computer, but I cannot run that either because it cannot find 
>that file.  I could really use any advice you can give me.  I'm sure it has to do 
>with the system updates that I was told to download.  Please help if you can.  Thanks!
>
>
>

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