help please, any way to repair Windows 2000?

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 9:16 pm

i installed the objectdock shareware, and i then rebooted my laptop. when windows came back up, i got a bunch of "this program has comitted an illegal error and will be shut down" messages. on one of them was the file "run32.dll" or something like that. i uninstalled the stardock program but the errors still remain. now my taskbar is empty and some of my programs won't work (pc-doctor for example). there is no system restore on my laptop cuz of linux, i don't know what to do

any help would be really appreciated

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 9:18 pm

oh ya, i did a virus scan and it found nothing

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 9:36 pm

Sounds like you fucked with the shell.Aston's shellswap.exe should be able to fx it.

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 9:56 pm

oh ya? where do i get it?

and btw, the 2 errors i get that worry me are explorer.exe and run32dll.exe

Post by **|darc|** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 10:08 pm

Lunchbox wrote:oh ya? where do i get it?

http://www.google.com/

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 10:09 pm

|darc| wrote:
Lunchbox wrote:oh ya? where do i get it?
http://www.google.com/

i put the filename in and came up with nothing

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 10:11 pm

i found this: http://www.astonshell.com/dl.htm

is that what i need?

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 11:23 pm

ok i tried another shell but that shell crashes too

i give up, i'm going to have to reformat

perry · Post by **perry** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:01 am

Lunchbox wrote:ok i tried another shell but that shell crashes too

i give up, i'm going to have to reformat

Meaning you formatted already...

sixteen-bit · Post by **sixteen-bit** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:16 am

perry2175 wrote:
Lunchbox wrote:ok i tried another shell but that shell crashes too

i give up, i'm going to have to reformat
Meaning you formatted already...

presumably the disk's partitions were formatted when the OSs were installed

Ikku · Post by **Ikku** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:29 am

Probably a registry error, why don't you try editting that? When you uninstalled the program it might not have removed its registry entries. Should be a value using run32dll.

perry · Post by **perry** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:47 am

sixteen-bit wrote:
perry2175 wrote:
Lunchbox wrote:ok i tried another shell but that shell crashes too

i give up, i'm going to have to reformat
Meaning you formatted already...
presumably the disk's partitions were formatted when the OSs were installed

Lol yeah but still it's just format, no re-format. Otherwise next it's going to be a re-re-format :p

Sir Slash · Post by **Sir Slash** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 1:48 am

get xp

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 2:22 am

xp blows.

Sir Slash · Post by **Sir Slash** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 2:30 am

better then win ME

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 3:20 am

But Windows 200 is virtually identical to WinXP anyway, but with less annoying bits.

sixteen-bit · Post by **sixteen-bit** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 7:29 am

BlackAura wrote:But Windows 200 is virtually identical to WinXP anyway, but with less annoying bits.

Yet win 2000 has an annoying embedded WM Player window in the lefthand preview pane in explorer where XP doesn't. I'd have expected it the other way around

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 7:57 am

Doesn't Windows 2000 have a repair option in the installer?

Prophet][ · Post by **Prophet][** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 8:17 am

yes it does, just boot to the 2000 cd and its their

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 9:38 am

sixteen-bit wrote:
BlackAura wrote:But Windows 200 is virtually identical to WinXP anyway, but with less annoying bits.
Yet win 2000 has an annoying embedded WM Player window in the lefthand preview pane in explorer where XP doesn't. I'd have expected it the other way around

what window o.o I've only seen that in xp...