This Technical Idiot Fixed His PC
My PC was close to death.
I had 2 problems.
1. CD Drive wouldn't open.
2. Program associations all gone and rundll32.exe was nowhere to be found.
Well, I got desperate. I figured at this stage of the game I had little to lose.
I found my XP CD so I next had to figure out how to open the CD ROM
drive.
So I went to my friend Google (who says Google sucks) and I typed in.
CD drive won't open
I found this site with some suggestions.
My cd drive won't open!! when i push eject button in cd rom. what should i do? - Yahoo! Answers
Even though these are just regular Joe's like me, I figured what the heck.
So I got out a tiny screwdriver, stuck it in the hole, and slammed the
top of the cabinet (ouch) and the drive opened.
I then inserted the XP OS disk.
I went through the recovery console and did a repair that I learned a
while back but it didn't work.
So then I went back to Google and typed in:
rundll32.exe not found
and found this site:
C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe Application not found - Windows XP Support
I then found this site:
Troubleshooting Windows XP, Tweaks and Fixes for Windows XP
I went down to number 12, copied and pasted the registry code into my
Ultra Edit editor, ran it, restarted my PC and...
I am back to where I was at about 1 PM this afternoon.
And I did it ALL BY MYSELF
This was of course after I was stupid enough to get myself infected
with XP Defender and then run a system restore that TOTALLY fubar
everything.
But I did it.
Me...the technical moron.
I can't stop crying I'm so happy.
I am now going to go out, get myself rip roaring drunk on my ass, and
celebrate my new found competence.
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