I screwed up and apparently deleted some .dlls

[Michael Mauzey]

I ran Analog X's DLL archive program ... it came up with humdreds to
archive .. I figured safe to archive cuz' it had a restore button.
When I hit "archive" I got all kinds of error message from Microsoft,
so i told Analog X to
"Restore". My computer seems to work fine except that
I cannot access the "Help and Support Center" and System Restore
doesn't work.

When I try to acces System Restore absolutely nothing happens .. when
I try to access Help & Support, I get an error message "Marscore.dll"
not found. I found it on the Internet and put it in System32 folder
and in PC Health/Binaries folder .. rebooted .. didn't help. I then
ran
"regsvr32 C:\windows\System32\Marscore.dll
It came up with this error message:
Load Library ("c:\windows\system32\marscore.dll") failed -- A
Dynamic Link Library (DLL) initialization
routine failed.

Please help me .. I feel so stupid! I even tried booting in safe mode
to access System Restore, but when I click on it, nothing happened
then either ... how can System Restore save us from our stupid selves
if we can't get to it?

Thanks in advance for all your help

 

[Guest]

hi

start
ru
sfc /scanno
make sure you have your windows installation c

should hopefully put back any dll's that are missing

if it doesn't work let me know

thank

 

[Michael Mauzey]

Thanks for the suggestion ... but when I run that program it says
"Insert your Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 CD Now" The
problem is my OS is Windows XP Home version with SP1 ... it came
pre-loaded from Dell. I have the original OS CD from Dell titled
"Re-installation CD ... Microsoft XP Home Edition Including Service
Pack 1". Why is it erroneously thinking that I have XP Professional
with SP2 instead of Winows XP Home with SP1 installed?

What do i do now? Thank you ...

Michael Mauzey
Canby, Oregon 97013-4415
503-266-8994
(e-mail address removed)
----- Original Message -----
hi

start
run
sfc /scannow
make sure you have your windows installation cd

should hopefully put back any dll's that are missing.

if it doesn't work let me know.

thanks

 

[Michael Mauzey]

Lavan,
I did the trick with copying the I386 folder onto my hard drive and
then changing the Source Path in my Registry to c:\ and now sfc
/scannow works just fine.
HOWEVER, it did not improve my situation at all ... I still cannot
access System restore and I still the get Marscore.dll not found error
and the same "failed DLL initialization routine" error when I try to
register marscore.dll

Any hint on how to access System Restore so that i can just restore it
back to day before yesterday?

Can you try and get a hold of a retail copy of windows xp with sp1.

A few other people have had same prob, looks like dell has
preinstalled a hot fix which isn't located on the cd.

also try putting in your dell restore cd and copy the i386 directory
to your local drive and run sfc when it asks where it's located point
it to the i386 directory that you copied across.

thanks

Lavan

 

[Michael Mauzey]

Lavan,
I went out on the Internet and found a way to solve the sfc /scannow
problem. I downloaded the I386 folder from my installation disk to my
harddrive and change the Source Path in the registry to c:\.
I was able to run sfc \scannow with no problems ... but it didn't fix
anything. i still get the "Load Library marscore.dll failed a DLL
initialization routine.

Do you know of any secret way to get System restore to work so that I
can just restore to day before yesterday?

Can you try and get a hold of a retail copy of windows xp with sp1.

A few other people have had same prob, looks like dell has
preinstalled a hot fix which isn't located on the cd.

also try putting in your dell restore cd and copy the i386 directory
to your local drive and run sfc when it asks where it's located point
it to the i386 directory that you copied across.

thanks

Lavan

 

[Guest]

Hi

copy following link into ie explorer, save the zip file to your desktop, then extract the file to the following locatio
C:\WINDOWS\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\BINARIE
http://www.helpy.com.ar/dll/m/marscore.zi

Reboot the machine, see if it starts to moan, if so try to see if you can re-register i
regsvr32 c:\windows\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\marscore.dl

let me know what happen

Lava

 

[SteveM]

It sounds to me like System Restore has been disabled and in which case the
restore points will have been erased.

You can turn it back on again from Control Panel, System, System Restore.