corrupt or missing comdlg.dll continuously rebooting

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I'll try to keep it short, been working on this problem all weekend! dimension 8200, p4 2.0, 512mb, win xp   I have mcafee anti virus and mcafee antispy Sat morning I updated mcafee antispy and was prompted to restart after installation dell splash comes up and then a blue screen appears for a second took a few times to read the error missing or corrupt comdlg32.dll then the xp splash comes up and starts all over again trying to boot   I did some research and I have boot disks and tried to put a new copy of comdlg.dll but access was denied to the file.  When I use the dell xp cd to boot from I receive another error about the txtsetup.sif being corrupt.  But I can get to the recovery console with the floppies. For the time being I'm using an old Compaq 400Mhz with 256mb and I'm running xp on this.  glad I kept it running!   Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated,  Thanks

Always_Broken · Answer

@ernie36 wrote:

I'll try to keep it short, been working on this problem all weekend!

dimension 8200, p4 2.0, 512mb, win xp

I have mcafee anti virus and mcafee antispy

Sat morning I updated mcafee antispy and was prompted to restart after installation

dell splash comes up and then a blue screen appears for a second

took a few times to read the error

missing or corrupt comdlg32.dll

then the xp splash comes up and starts all over again trying to boot

I did some research and I have boot disks and tried to put a new copy of comdlg.dll

but access was denied to the file. When I use the dell xp cd to boot from I receive another error

about the txtsetup.sif being corrupt. But I can get to the recovery console with the floppies.

For the time being I'm using an old Compaq 400Mhz with 256mb and I'm running xp on this.

glad I kept it running!

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Thanks

See if you can get online and find the missing dll to install on the computer?

It's tough when you can't reformat, so I dunno.

maxd · Answer

Can you (from the Recovery Console) rename comdlg32.dll to comdls32.old ? Then enter this command line: copy c:\windows\system32\dllcache\comdlg32.dll c:\windows\system32

ernie36 · Answer

hey max, sorry it took so long to try it thanks for the help I tried the ren and I still get access denied in the console   I was going to try the repair reinstall option that I read about but when I follow the instructions from the forum there is one option missing on my screen.  It wants me to pick a partition to install xp on?   I really want to save some files before I clean and reinstall xp any options?

maxd · Answer

I don't think you should have got that 'Access Denied' message going by the Recovery Console rules but I guess that's moot. Just try copying the file and maybe it'll just prompt you to overwrite; forget about the ren command line. I don't think it will work either but give it a try. I think you may have a virus; actually a trojan. If you made a reference (McAfee) floppy (or set of floppies) you could run it from A: The command might be something like this: rescue.exe c:\*.* /R If you have a virus I don't think a Repair Install will work; having no experience with either, I can't comment. The one virus I came upon in 'researching' your problem was  ymya2; you could go to the system32 directory and do a 'dir' command and see if it or something similar is in that folder. I'm really reaching now. Can anyone help ?

ernie36 · Answer

while in the console I can not change directories or check dir dos is basically not letting me do anything   thanks for the help anything else would help will probably wait a few days before I re-install thanks again

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