After I turned on my computer this morning and tried to access internet explorer my normal home page came up with a syntax error and I thought it might just be my internet connection or something of the sort (obviously I don't really know what a syntax error is), so I download firefox from another computer on my home network and I installed it onto this computer. Everything was going alright until I tried to install java. Every version I tried to install came up with a "Wininet.dll file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL: SHRegGetValueW." error and I've looked online for some kind of fix to this problem, but so far I tried moving the wininet.dll and shlwapi.dll to system 32 folder (I put them back into the system folder after it didn't work), I tried to download internet explorer 6, but I got the same error message and I tried to copy the same two files from another computer (it has iE6) to this one, but it didn't work. Now, here I am asking for some kind of help. I didn't think this was a big deal until I tried to play some of my games and they just wouldn't open giving me the same error message. Thanks in advance.

Blazechan, anytime your machine reports a "syntax error", it's telling you that it has encountered a command, instruction, word it doesn't understand. My guess us that you have a corrupt file that is throwing a monkey wrench in the works. When trying to read that file, it's encoutering an error it can't understand. Recommend you do a search for "Wininet.dll" and see if you can fix it. If it turns out you can't fix, can you restore to an earlier date and fix it with the restore? If that won't do the trick, afraid it's beyond my ken. Some files get rewritten if they're missing, but dunno if .dll files fall in that category. Perhaps someone with more knowledge than me knows? HTH. Ed in Texas.

Well, I tried to do a system restore, but I don't have any restore points. Also I don't understand what you mean by finding the Wininet.dll and then fixing it.

Ok, I've uninstalled internet explorer 6 back to internet explorer 5 and now everything's back to normal.