Re: repeated cannot find shell.dll

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From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 08/19/04


Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:54:06 +1000


"dcdowntown" <DELETETHIScag1@att.net> wrote in message
news:8e1001c4858c$ff6e9790$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I get the cannot find shell.dll message when I reboot. It
> was deleted from the winnt\system32 directory each time.
> The problem cropped up yesterday when I had a CD from a DSL
> provider crash my system, leaving a bunch of junk on my
> system that I had to clean out manually. Can anyone help?
> Pls reply to email address above.

You can restore the file from c:\windows\system32\dllcache.



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