first off, sorry i don't have my exact specs, but my pc is shot right now and i'm not at home. when i try to start my pc it gets to the windows loading screen but then a blue screen pops up w/ "The image wininet.dll is possibly corrupt. the header checksum dosent match the computted checksum stop:c00002 {bad image checksum}". I have no idea what this means and afterward it just redoes the whole start-up repeatedly getting stuck at this point. please help!

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