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Join Date: Apr 2006
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corrupt files?
well my computer has been acting up for w hile now and its been annoying me greatly not being able to find out whats wrong with it...
first problem: the disk defragmenter program is not working ~ as in now even starting up... everytime i try to open the program a black box appears and then disappeares within 0.5 secs...i couldnt even read what the error is... i tried looking for the answer all over the net but found nothing... so well i thought that i did something wrong so i tried as system restore back a few days... this leads to my second problem...system restore would not work for some reason O.o everytime it reaches to the load up screen after i restart it keeps saying something like "the system cannot be found so it cannot be restored ~ select another checkpoint" (not exact words as i cant remeber how the full sentence went) and just now when trying to use MSpaint this came up... mspaint.exe - bad image "the application or DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\MFC42u.DDL is not a valid windows image. please check this against your installation diskette" i mean wtf? just what is happening? being a total noob on how computer program works i am stumped... will some good soul plz help me as im about "this" close to smashing my comp into pieces 
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2006-12-16, 14:07
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Asuki-tan Kairin ↓
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 ). Okay, this special DLL (dynamic link library) is part of said Framework. Many applications that are coded for Windows use MFC, so it is a somewhat vital file. Sometimes other programs install other versions of MFC (which in your case seems to be the troublemaker).Okay, thats all very interesting (not realy)... But how do I get the original file back, you might ask... On your Windows Installation CD is a folder called i386. In there should be a file with the same name as your corrupted file (but the last letter is a "_" e.g. if the corrupt file is system.dll, the actual naming of the file in the i386 folder would be system.dl_ ). That just indicates, that the file is compressed. There exists a console program called "expand". With that tool you can decompress the file and write it over the corrupt file. wish you success
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2006-12-16, 15:16
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Technoid
Join Date: Feb 2004
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You may also want to check for possible Bad RAM... That CAN cause all kinds of havoc...
 You can get Memtest86+ from here: http://www.memtest.org Get either the Self-Extracting Boot Floppy version, or the Bootable CD .ISO Image, and boot the affected PC from it to give your RAM a Thorough Checkup. HTH, -Tursiops_G. |
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2006-12-16, 15:27
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also what do i do after i expanded the file? copy and past over the affected one?
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2006-12-16, 19:55
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Asuki-tan Kairin ↓
Join Date: Feb 2004
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I know you fixed it already, but I want to answer your question (just so you know).
If you start the console (run "cmd"), you can type in it the command "expand" it is a command line tool (like those in the old DOS days). short example for usage: X:\working_directory>expand d:\i386\somefile.dl_ c:\windows\system32\somefile.dll (expand [souce] [destination])
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