re: Help! Have I completely killed it? Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 10:54 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Scott Brown (138 messages posted) Only thing I can think of is go to dll-files.com and download that particular .dll, put it in the system32 directory and see if that helps. On Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 10:43 am, Laura wrote: >I'm not sure if I have damaged things beyond all repair here.. > >I KNOW this was really really stupid, but I accidentally deleted the backup copy >of explorer.exe while I was in recovery console..I put explorer.exe from another >computer (also running XP home edition) on a CD and copied it over from there, and >now when I start up I get the "The procedure entry point SHCreateThreadRef could >not be located in the dynamic link library SHLWAPI.dll" message. I have looked this >up but apparently this message is only supposed to show when service pack 2 has been >installed incorrectly, and no hints on how to deal with it if you HAVEN'T tried to >install this service pack.. > >Does anybody know what I could try next? > >Any help would be very much appreciated! > >Thank you > >Laura Written in response to: Help! Have I completely killed it? (Laura: Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 10:43 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Help! Have I completely killed it? (Laura: Sat, Feb 18, 2006, 10:43 am) re: Help! Have I completely killed it? (Scott Brown: Sat, Feb 18, 2006, 10:54 am) re: Help! Have I completely killed it? (Steve: Sat, Feb 18, 2006, 12:39 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum