Solved: Explorer.exe - Unable to locate component

Right off the bat i knew this was not a good sign since explorer is so well integrated into windows. I tryed to remove some spyware and upon reboot everything was fine until you choose your user. Once that happens a error box comes up reading:

Explorer.exe - Unable to locate component

Failed to start because wininet.dll was not found. Re-installing this may fix the problem.



I tryed booting from the windows xp home edition cd but was unsuccesful.

I really have some important files on the pc and home i can get this issue handled without doing anything crazy like taking the HD out and moving the files to this pc.

Edit: Important note: The start menu and no icons load up. Just my background.


Thanks for the help!
Kyle

 

What happened when you tried booting from the XP Home Edition CD?

 

If you can open the task manager (ctrl+alt+del), click file, new task (run), and type sfc /scannow and click ok. Have your XP cd ready...

 

When i boot from the cd it asks me for the admin password, since there isnt one i just enter and it goes through to the startup. Then i would click a username and it would give the same error message

With the sfc /scannow it gives me the same error message excecept for Taskmanager.exe.. even though it is already open. missing that win .dll file

 

If i go to file open, i can browse to the files i want in word and such and can open them successfully in msword03... So i think i just need to get that win dll file back on the pc and i will be set?

 

Here's the wininet.dll file from microsoft...zipped. Unzip and copy to c:\windows\system32.

 

thank you.. that worked

 

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