Maybe try this Sunday, July 18, 2004 at 3:38 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Don (246 messages posted) You might try this: Use your favorite search engine to see if you can find and download COMCTL32.DLL on your laptop . Put it on a floppy. Boot your desktop to a command prompt only (F8 during the boot process). Put in the floppy. then: A: enter at the A: prompt, copy A:\COMCTL32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM Remove the floppy after the copy is completed (no activity on the drive light for the a drive). Reboot the pc. Should work, if there is no further corruption. Take care Don On Friday, July 16, 2004 at 6:45 pm, MikeM wrote: >i tried to download a newer version of Internet Explorer on my 4 year old desktop >and somehow I corrupted/deleted a required .DLL file - now I can't even get into >windows. I get a message saying "required .DLL file : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\COMCTL32.DLL >NOT FOUND" - and then I get a blank screen. I tried rebooting into Safe Mode, but >same thing happened. I hear I might need to create an emergency boot disk - can >I do that on my laptop that has XP? Can anyone help?? Thanks! Written in response to: Missing .DLL file - do I need an emergency boot disk? Help! (MikeM: Friday, July 16, 2004 at 6:45 pm) Responses to this message: re: .dll file replacement (Firefly: Monday, July 19, 2004 at 8:23 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Missing .DLL file - do I need an emergency boot disk? Help! (MikeM: Fri, Jul 16, 2004, 6:45 pm) re: Missing .DLL file - do I need an emergency boot disk? Help! (Donna R: Fri, Jul 16, 2004, 9:35 pm) Maybe try this (Don: Sun, Jul 18, 2004, 3:38 am) re: .dll file replacement (Firefly: Mon, Jul 19, 2004, 8:23 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum