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My friend erased rundll32 and i know that is BAD! Can someone help me find somewhere to download or extract rundll32?! Please! This is for windows 98, please someone help soon!
 
Dynamic Link Libraries are just that. Dynamic. Which means as time goes on, they change. The typical changes occur upon application installs, o.s. modifications etc.. Even if any one of us gave you the same file he deleted (by name) it more than likely will not work and just create bigger problems.

I could be wrong.....
 
dude
tell HIM to get his ass over and reformat your comp AND save all ur poop cuz ur pretty much fiddlesticked.:cheers:
 
If you have the win98 disk, look in the folder /win98/cabs (I think, it's been so long since I screwed with 98). It should be in that folder, or compressed in one of the .cab files. I have reserected a few blown OS's by doing this (though not the rundll32 file).

Chris, If I'm not mistaken, the rundll32 file is the file that runs the dlls, but I don't think it changes over time. The registry changes all the time and that's what points all those dlls to the rundll handler. But it is 98, and we all know the legendary stability of 98.

Point is, if restoring the file makes it boot, cool, boot it, back you stuff up and reload a clean OS. Frankensteining an OS is a bad idea, and should only be a temporary fix to save data.

Next week: How to retrieve data from an NTFS disk when the OS is hosed!!!

Whitt....
 
Dave, that's just too easy. If it aint hard to do, it aint worth doin. :hehe: If the OS will boot, do what WDH said, it's quicker than poking through all the cab files by hand.
 
If replacing truck parts were that easy....

Here's a good thing to do to keep your friend's stinkin' mitts off your computer:

Rename win.com to smurf.com (or something else)

When the system boots he'll get an error message and most likely panic and turn the machine off.

All you have to do is type "smurf" at the command prompt and windows will load.
 
Well what do you do when you start up the computer with no keyboard and it says no keyboard dectected, press F12 to continue? Mom has been taking the keyboard lately but I downloaded a on-screen keyboard when I had it.
 
I don't start computers w/out a keyboard.

That's the whole book, chapter and verse from "Network Security by Mom". Chapter one: Remove keyboard and place in trunk of car.

Moms do that because it's easier than setting a bios password.
 
Mom does really do much computer stuff so all she knows how to do is check e-mail and search for things on google. Everything else I have to do for her.
 
YESH! WDAVIDHICKS I LUV YOU...AS A FRIEND! IT WORKED IT WORKED IT WORKED, NOW EVERYTHING WORKS! THX!:breakdown :breakdown :breakdown :breakdown
 
Originally posted by error401

Next week: How to retrieve data from an NTFS disk when the OS is hosed!!!
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That's hella easy. Just plug the drive in as a slave on another machine that runs an OS that can read NTFS (win2k for example). They you just copy and paste the important data via explorer. :D the more complicated way would be to use NTFS Dos or the recovery console.

For future reference, this KB Article goes over extracting files from the original .cab files that find on the CDROM:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...s/Q129/6/05.ASP&NoWebContent=1&NoWebContent=1

there are places that you can download from files via the internet, but that's not advisable as you don't know what you're going to end up with.
 
Originally posted by Smurfola212
My friend erased rundll32 and i know that is BAD! Can someone help me find somewhere to download or extract rundll32?! Please! This is for windows 98, please someone help soon!
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Looks like it's time to either re-install Windows 98 or upgrade your OS. As has been said elsewhere in this thread, the chances of you getting a copy that will work with your system are not so great.

EB
 
:confused: Did you bother to read the ENTIRE thread elburro? Smurf reported back that he got it to work.
 
Originally posted by RobH


That's hella easy. Just plug the drive in as a slave on another machine that runs an OS that can read NTFS (win2k for example). They you just copy and paste the important data via explorer. :D the more complicated way would be to use NTFS Dos or the recovery console.
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Dang Rob, shoulda waited till next week, now we're gonna have to show stag movies during class.

But that's exactly what I do, just hope the security hasn't been locked down too tight on the file access rights. I've formatted Click! disks and Zip disks that be read on only 1 machine by 1 specific user. If the HD has data that's been secured like that and you try the trick you outlined, u're screwed.
 
Originally posted by mcvickj
:confused: Did you bother to read the ENTIRE thread elburro? Smurf reported back that he got it to work.
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:confused: Read? Whats that? Oh! You mean that thing where you look at the little squiggly things and it means something! Nah. I do this from work (silly me .. I work full time). Sometimes I don't have time to read entire threads cuz I have a lot of work to do (again, because I work full time). So if you wanna sue me over it or something feel free. Otherwise, go pick on someone else. Like I ruined your day or something.

EB
 

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