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April 19th, 2005 17:00

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Dear all,
 
I'm wondering if anyone can help me, this is the first time this has ever occured to me, and i dont know what to do.  When i start my WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION, it shows the WINDOWS XP LOGO i.e the black screen and the WINDOWS XP name.  What happens then is that i get a message showing the following:
 
"Winlogon.exe unable to locate component, this application has failed to start becasue SHELL32.DLL was not found. reinstalling the application may fix it"
 
I have the reinstallation CD with me, but how do i do this?
will i loose all my work?
 
please assist
 
i am using a dell machine.
 
help

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April 19th, 2005 17:00

JTaylorJ:

This thread from another forum describes the same problem. Hopefully the solution will help you:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t303139.html

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April 19th, 2005 18:00

Dear Osperay,

 

many thanks for replying back,

 

I have and think found the solution, but how do i get into the following:

Boot into XP recovery console???

I need to run SCANDISK

 

please advice if you can

thanks once again

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April 20th, 2005 10:00

JTaylorJ:

You need to boot to your Windows XP disc to run the recovery console. If you post your system, I can point you to the instructions.

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April 20th, 2005 11:00

Dear OSEPERAY

 

Many thanks for the advice,

 

Its a DIMENSION 4200 DELL.

 

i HAVE RAN THE chkdsk /p /r

what is the /P ????

Also I tried the CHKDSK /P /R but after 20 minutes of checking the errors, the system said it found 1 error, but when i restarted the machine, it came back with the same error message i.e SHELL32.DLL.....

Must I ONLY type in CHKDSK /R             ??

I might be typing the wrong word

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April 22nd, 2005 12:00

Osperay,

 

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