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Missing wininet.dll stopping Window
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Original Message
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Name: crazyhorse25
Date: April 3, 2007 at 08:32:00 Pacific
Subject: Missing wininet.dll stopping WindowOS: XP SP2CPU/Ram: 133 / 254Manufacturer/Model: Gateway / Solo 1450 |
Comment: When I turn on my laptop I get a the error message "This application has failed to start because WININET.dll was not found" I have down loaded the missing file but can insall it because (due to the missing file) windows does not load any desktop icons rendering it inoperable Can anyone help? Gav
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Response Number 2
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Name: Derek
Date: April 3, 2007 at 14:54:42 Pacific
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Reply: Tap F8 whilst booting and see if you can get yourself to the Safe Mode screen. If so the file will fit on a floppy (assuming you have a floppy drive) and can be put back. More than one copy of wininet.dll might be present but it is most likely that the culprit is the one in c:\windows\system32 DerekW
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Reply: Thanks for the tips it turns out that a whole host of my System 32 files had been changed to show .dll(2). When I took off the bracketed number from each the laptop booted up fine. I hope this will not affect the system? Gav
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Name: Derek
Date: April 6, 2007 at 06:20:20 Pacific
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Reply: The bracketted files sometimes arive after you do a system restore (previous versions - no longer used), but leave a normal version without brackets in place. Maybe restore glitched. What you did sounded fine and got things working so I doubt there will be any aftermath. It would be worth creating a new restore point. DerekW
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