Solved: Explorer.exe - Unable to locate component

[douglar02]

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

 

[online_fixes]

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

 

[The Hound]

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...

 

[douglar02]

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

 

[douglar02]

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?

 

[The Hound]

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

 

[douglar02]

thank you.. that worked

 

[The Hound]

Good deal...please use the thread tools at the top right to mark this one solved...