my win me boot disk only boots as far as the wallpaper no icos or taskbar and then shlwapi.dll has caused an error. explorer will now close. then i have wallpaper and nothing else no mouse keyboard works though. i have been able to boot progman but i dont know much about how to use it. i tried to launch system restore but shlwapi.dll error again. then i tried regsvr32 shlwapi.dll and error says "was loaded but dllregisterserve entry point was not found. dllregisterserve may not be exported or a corrupt version of shlwapi.dll may be in memory ." then it suggests i try PView and fix it.i could not find anything with that name and just typing it in progman, it just says it cant find. so does anyone know what i can do?

The fact that you're trying to boot from a boot disk rather than the hard drive tends to make me think there's something inherently wrong with the original Windows installation to start with, otherwise you would be able to boot from the hard drive. I would boot to DOS from the disk, and run a SCANREG to see what's going on in the registry (if anything at all!) Anyone care to add to this - with this amount of problems I would look at a reinstall of Windows personally.

when i say bootdisk im refering to my c drive. i have other drives installed. i should have said boot drive to avoid confusion