Add/removes programs crashes rundll32.exe

[Randy Brook]

Win XPPro, sp 2.

When I try Control Panel, add/remove programs, I get an error in Run
dll as a app. The program shown is rundll32.exe. The same thing
happens in Safe Mode and after trying "last known good configuration."

Any suggestions to fix this?

 

[Randy Brook]

I should add that running SFC did not help.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Cannot find the Rundll32.exe file when you open Control Panel
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| Win XPPro, sp 2.
|
| When I try Control Panel, add/remove programs, I get an error in Run
| dll as a app. The program shown is rundll32.exe. The same thing
| happens in Safe Mode and after trying "last known good configuration."
|
| Any suggestions to fix this?

 

[Randy Brook]

Thanks for the suggestion but this isn't my error. Rundll32.exe is
found but crashes.

Note that after running SFC without improvement, I manually extracted
rundll32.exe to a temp directory and did a binary compare to the
version in \windows\system32. There was no difference. I've also done
a search for this error but have found nothing that directly addresses
a fix.

I have weekly Ghost copies of my C boot partition so at some point I
may just start recovering the whole partition until I get one that
works. This does get me nervous, however, and I'd rather find a less
drastic fix first.

 

[Randy Brook]

I gave up on finding a fix. I restored a two week old Ghost image of
my C drive and Add/Remove Programs is working.