System restore gone wrong..

[Guest]

A few days ago I did a system restore on my other computer.
When it was done, I turned my computer on to log on, and where the log on
page used to be, theres a pop-up saying "cant find winlogon.exe...
SHLWAPI.dll not found... re-install to fix this problem" and two other
pop-ups which are generally the same thing.
I've tried everything, as in trying to go into safe mode, etc. But nothing
seems to work. It just reboots.
So I was wondering if I could just install the whole windows XP again.
(please note I am not at all great with stuff like this, so excuse if it
doesnt make sense) If that's a solution, whats the newest windows, and how
much would it go for?
thakns for your help in advance!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

A few days ago I did a system restore on my other computer.
When it was done, I turned my computer on to log on, and where the
log on page used to be, theres a pop-up saying "cant find
winlogon.exe... SHLWAPI.dll not found... re-install to fix this
problem" and two other pop-ups which are generally the same thing.
I've tried everything, as in trying to go into safe mode, etc. But
nothing seems to work. It just reboots.
So I was wondering if I could just install the whole windows XP
again. (please note I am not at all great with stuff like this, so
excuse if it doesnt make sense) If that's a solution, whats the
newest windows, and how much would it go for?
thakns for your help in advance!

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341

 

[Rock]

A few days ago I did a system restore on my other computer.
When it was done, I turned my computer on to log on, and where the log on
page used to be, theres a pop-up saying "cant find winlogon.exe...
SHLWAPI.dll not found... re-install to fix this problem" and two other
pop-ups which are generally the same thing.
I've tried everything, as in trying to go into safe mode, etc. But nothing
seems to work. It just reboots.
So I was wondering if I could just install the whole windows XP again.
(please note I am not at all great with stuff like this, so excuse if it
doesnt make sense) If that's a solution, whats the newest windows, and how
much would it go for?
thakns for your help in advance!

Here's a link with good info on doing a repair install:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

A repair install should retain all programs and data however you should
always have a complete backup. If you don't consider putting the drive
in another XP or win2k machine as a slave drive and copying the data.