Vista - Rundll32 & Windows Explorer Stopped Working

Rundll32 & Windows Explorer Stopped Working

Everytime I 'bootup' computer ... the above errors pop up and screen looks like it refreshes itself.

Unable to access anti virus/malware apps

Unable to use computer or get online

I hope there's good news to resolve issue

Awaiting

glassman

glassman

Have you trued safebooting (repeaded hit F8 while booting). If you can do that let us know

Ken

ATTN:KEN

I have tried rebooting in F8 ... np

Whether I try to go into safe mode / safe mode with networking / repair .. nothing seems to work ... continues to 'boot up' with same message ...

Windows Host Process Rundll32 has stopped working & Windows Explorer stopped working ... shut down ... keeps coming back up

I'd pull my hair out if I had any!!

You'd think REPAIR would do just that ... now what?

Oh and by the way ...

VISTA Home Basic

Im assuming you cant get anything to boot. do you have a backup that we can restore? Is there anything on the drive that you cant live without?

ken

Im assuming you cant get anything to boot.

Apparently not


do you have a backup that we can restore?


Restore Points ... YES


Is there anything on the drive that you cant live without?

EVERYTHING ... MY WORK - HOME STUFF - KIDS STUFF - PICS - MUSIC


Doesn't sound too promising ....

Is the data in the same partition as the OS?

when was the last back up you made?

Is there anything not critical that you can removing like usb drives, raid, second monitor.
Come to think of it I dont even know what you hardware is.

We can always do a upgrade re-install where you files and setting are kept in a folder called windows.old

tell me about your hardware

ken

You may have to try a repair install. This will allow you to repair your Vista installation and keep your user account files, settings, and programs.

Courtesy of Brink...
Repair Install For Vista

You can use the Ubuntu live cd to copy all you're data if its in the C:\Users\xxx folder.