Hey Chas,

I really appreciate you sticking with me here.

When I said that nothing happened after the repair install....here's
what happened....

The Win XP Pro CD went through the repair install which took about 15
minutes. It said that everything was successful. Upon restarting my computer,
the same error message concerning CRYPTUI.dll came up. That's what I meant
when I said nothing happened...pertaining to the original issue still not
being resolved after attempting the repair install.


As for the sfc / scannow feature, I negelcted to put a space before and
after the sfc and scannow. The following then came up on my screen in cmd.exe:
-------------------------------------------
/SCANNOW
/SCANONCE
/SCANBOOT
/REVERT
/PURGECACHE
/CACHESIZE=x

(this was under SAFE MODE COMMAND PROMPT for starting up since I cannot
enter into WINDOWS under SAFE MODE....the following line appears...)

C:\Documents and Settings\Mike> *****here I typed /SCANNOW******

then received this message:

'/SCANNOW is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
program or batch file.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So, that's where I'm at right now. I'd like to give this scan thing a try
and see if it does the trick. Any suggestions?


-Mike



"Chas" wrote:

>
> "MikeFadd" <MikeFadd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5AFF9FAD-3882-4C6B-89B1-3F8FA5B3646A@microsoft.com...
> > Is there somewhere I can download the CRYPTUI.dll file from and somehow
> > put it onto my computer? I don't know how I'd do this though, because I
> > can't
> > even start the system.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > "MikeFadd" wrote:
> >
> >> 2 things:
> >>
> >> #1) I attempted to perform a REPAIR INSTALLATION to try and fix the
> >> problem
> >> and NOTHING happened. Everything is exactly the same...the 'CRYPTUI.dll
> >> not
> >> found' message comes up, where my desktop doesn't load.
> >>
> >> #2) I tried Chas' recommendation...."Start>Run> sfc/scannow"
> >> -Since I cannot log into Windows, I attempted to start in SAFE MODE
> >> -when attempting SAFE MODE, I received the 'CRYPTUI.dll'
> >> message
> >> again.
> >> -I also attempted to run SAFE MODE w/COMMAND PROMPT
> >> -the command prompt came up and I typed in 'sfc/scannow' and
> >> got
> >> this:
> >>
> >> :::Windows File Protection could not initiate a scan of protected
> >> system files.
> >> The specific error code is 0x0000006ba [The RPC server is
> >> unavailable]:::
> >>
> >>
> >> So, that's where I'm at right now. The above suggestion didn't work,
> >> and
> >> the repair install didn't work. I cannot start Windows in SAFE MODE under
> >> Administrator or my personal name.....
> >>
> >> I don't want to lose any data either. Any suggestions? I'm not sure
> >> what
> >> else I could possibly try.
> >>
> >> "Chas" wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > "MikeFadd" <MikeFadd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> > news:BCF2ED89-576D-4A42-BD96-43F90620D389@microsoft.com...
> >> > > I'd also like to add that I don't want to lose any data, software,
> >> > > etc.
> >> > >
> >> > > I was in the process of backing up my files last night...no surprise
> >> > > this
> >> > > bump in the road had to come along!
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks,
> >> > > Mike
> >> > >
> >> > > "MikeFadd" wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >> Hi,
> >> > >>
> >> > >> I went to startup my computer as usual this morning and I received a
> >> > >> message
> >> > >> that my video card cable was not connected properly, so I turned off
> >> > >> my
> >> > >> system and made sure everything was plugged in securely. My computer
> >> > >> started
> >> > >> as normal, then I got this message before Windows XP loaded my
> >> > >> desktop...
> >> > >>
> >> > >> -------------------------------------------------
> >> > >> Explorer.exe- unable to locate component
> >> > >> -------------------------------------------------
> >> > >> (x) <---RED X
> >> > >>
> >> > >> This application failed to start because CRYPTUI.dll was not found.
> >> > >> Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
> >> > >> __________________________________________________ __________
> >> > >>
> >> > >> I have Windows XP Pro w/ Service Pack 2
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Any suggestions? Should I just insert my Win XP Install CD and
> >> > >> perform a
> >> > >> REPAIR?
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Thanks,
> >> > >> Mike
> >> > >>
> >> >
> >> > Hi
> >> > Try running the following command from Start>Run type in "sfc
> >> > /scannow"
> >> > without the quotes,
> >> > Have your XP CD handy, it may ask for it
> >> > this should replace critical system files
> >> >
> >> > chas
> >> >
> >> >
> Hi
> I can't understand with a repair install you said "nothing happened"
> I know some OEM XP disks do not allow repair installs
> Look here http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
> Read through it first
> You can download cryptui.dll here
> http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-.../download.html
> Also this may help when you tried to run 'sfc /scannow' remember the space
> between c /
> http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/bb/sutra633911.html
> Best of luck
> Chas
>
>
>