Missing dll file. WTF!!

OK so I went to install Adobe 7.0 full version the other day and I was missing a dll file. So I attempted to repair windows xp pro today. Well I got totally screwed. Some how everything on my hard drive got corrupted. I lost everything on my 2 hard drives. :cursin: I had to go back to windows 2k pro and I freakin hate it! I need to locate my win xp sp1 because I know that version works fine, this new win xp sp2 disc I have is missing dll files in itself.:cursin: :damn: I've got alot of work to do :cursin:

OK so I went to install Adobe 7.0 full version the other day and I was missing a dll file. : I hate it when that happens....only thing you can really do is reinstall the entire OS, otherwise youll get multiplle errors/conflicts. Restore to previous restore point never worked for me, nor repairing the OS never worked for me either. Anytime I uninstall a program and it ask do you want to "remove all files linked to this program" I always click no to all ...cause tif you reply yes..thats what usually deletes DLL files.

ok, I've made this apparent in another thread that I'm an E*Tard, but what is a dll file?

dll = Dynamic Link Library Basically, dll files are the guts of your installed applications. Whenever you install something, it's putting dll files on your machine. Without the proper dll files, programs are unable to run.

I have successfully used a restore point twice since I had it on my system. One time it worked and the other, I ended up starting from scratch anyway. :cursin: :luck: with the nightmare.

I have also successfully used the restore point a few times, but the OS got so screwed up I couldn't even get to that point.

THis is why I hate computers... they just suck!

THis is why I hate computers... they just suck! it's not the computer GM...it's just you.:lol: :whistle: Sometimes these things can just be a P.I.T.A.

Exactly... when they go wrong they really go wrong!!

Sweet! I had my copy of windows XP sent to me in the mail, and got the OS all fixed now. bye bye windows 2000! Now it's just too bad I can't recover the lost data. :damn: but oh well....

I hate when dat happens!

I hate when dat happens! yeah me too....kinda like flooded laptops. I have actually got that laptop to come on a few times, but there is still something majorly screwed up in there.

Hey post up in that thread on a update with that flooded apt crap!

Flood again?:scratch:

Flood again?:scratch: oh no, from the old flood.

oh no, from the old flood. Cool:dthumb: I thought you got hit again at the new place.:crazy: