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by mendellsberueda

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Recently, I used winxp's (professional edition) system restore feature, but during the process the machine was shut down due to power failure. When I tried to boot up again winlogon.exe was unable to execute due to some .dll file missing. The machine keeps on restarting and showing the same message. Is there any possible way of solving this problem without actuatlly reinstalling the OS? btw, system recovery tools and installer cd's are not available with me. need help, thanks!

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by collignond

You should be able to download the dll off the internet or another XP Pro machine. Try booting the machine in safe mode and copying the dll to the correct location.

by mastergeek

If you are unable to boot in safe mode, you can try writing down the dll's that are listed as missing. Remove the hard drive from the machine and put it into another as a second drive. Run any disk repair software you have - like scandisk or norton utilities. Then copy the dll's from the system32 folder on the second computer to the system32 folder on the drive from the first computer.

The best fix would be to have a XP install disk and run the repair function during the install this will take you to a command prompt where you can run "fixboot" and "fixMBR" which usually fixes this problem.

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