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needlove
Hello,
Trying to save a dying operating system Windows XP SP2 with all but one of
the very latest updates. Scanned for viruses with two different AVS's
scanners and am totally free of malware or viruses.
History abriviated:
Hopefully this is in order of occurance:
First I went to safe mode just to look at my account and the administrator
account and when I rebooted, starting normally this message appeared that I
have never seen before: "Windows is replacing a file that is part of the
registry the registry has been repaired successfully" (The message was
similiar to that but I can't access the original message at this moment.) I
had not made any manual changes to the registry but had recently installed
IE7 from a MS download. Everything was working fine except Windows Updates
that downloaded but won't install, 6 of them, KB923980, KB92470, KB890830,
KB927978, KB905474, KB920213.
Using IE 7, and from the windows update log the initial windows update
errors were, 0x800704dd and 0x80240020. I googled the error numbers and
came up with a mass of information Including a MS website that exactly fit
my problem and I followed the directions exactly with no resolution. I
tried everything to get the critical updates and did get four out of six,
eventually, by manually downloading and installing them.
In an effort to get the last updates from windows update I uninstalled IE 7
since it seemed it did not operate under the proper permissions.
Opps.
I rebooted after the uninstall and got this: explorer.exe cannot start
"iertutil.dll not found". No desktop of course just task manager that was
limited because of the error: "Ordinal 56 could not be located in the dll
iertutil.dll". Checked IE and is still reporting version 7. Can't use MMC,
Cant use use backup to restore, same error all over "ordinal 56 could not be
located.."
Not knowing what to do from here I tried safe mode and could not access my
or admins account due to same error. Could not restore to last know good. I
started an XP installation i have on a seperate drive and copied
theiertutil.dll to %systemroot% and dll cache on the XP installation that is
failing. Rebooted into the installation and explorer.exe did start but still
cannot run many windows applications, including backup restore, with the
error: "The ordianal 56 could not be located in the dynamic link library
iertutil.dll". So now I put the Windows XP SP2 slipstream CD in and booted
from it. I can get to the repair console but what do I do from here? I want
to repair the registry from a backup I have on another drive. I'm talking to
you now through a styrofoam cup with a string attached to it...
I went to another installation of XP on the same computer which also has IE
7 installed and copied iertutil.dll to
Trying to save a dying operating system Windows XP SP2 with all but one of
the very latest updates. Scanned for viruses with two different AVS's
scanners and am totally free of malware or viruses.
History abriviated:
Hopefully this is in order of occurance:
First I went to safe mode just to look at my account and the administrator
account and when I rebooted, starting normally this message appeared that I
have never seen before: "Windows is replacing a file that is part of the
registry the registry has been repaired successfully" (The message was
similiar to that but I can't access the original message at this moment.) I
had not made any manual changes to the registry but had recently installed
IE7 from a MS download. Everything was working fine except Windows Updates
that downloaded but won't install, 6 of them, KB923980, KB92470, KB890830,
KB927978, KB905474, KB920213.
Using IE 7, and from the windows update log the initial windows update
errors were, 0x800704dd and 0x80240020. I googled the error numbers and
came up with a mass of information Including a MS website that exactly fit
my problem and I followed the directions exactly with no resolution. I
tried everything to get the critical updates and did get four out of six,
eventually, by manually downloading and installing them.
In an effort to get the last updates from windows update I uninstalled IE 7
since it seemed it did not operate under the proper permissions.
Opps.
I rebooted after the uninstall and got this: explorer.exe cannot start
"iertutil.dll not found". No desktop of course just task manager that was
limited because of the error: "Ordinal 56 could not be located in the dll
iertutil.dll". Checked IE and is still reporting version 7. Can't use MMC,
Cant use use backup to restore, same error all over "ordinal 56 could not be
located.."
Not knowing what to do from here I tried safe mode and could not access my
or admins account due to same error. Could not restore to last know good. I
started an XP installation i have on a seperate drive and copied
theiertutil.dll to %systemroot% and dll cache on the XP installation that is
failing. Rebooted into the installation and explorer.exe did start but still
cannot run many windows applications, including backup restore, with the
error: "The ordianal 56 could not be located in the dynamic link library
iertutil.dll". So now I put the Windows XP SP2 slipstream CD in and booted
from it. I can get to the repair console but what do I do from here? I want
to repair the registry from a backup I have on another drive. I'm talking to
you now through a styrofoam cup with a string attached to it...
I went to another installation of XP on the same computer which also has IE
7 installed and copied iertutil.dll to