Urgent help dlls file missing after malware bytes and SAS scan

jgallcash

Scanned a friends XP machine last night with above. Loads of things found. Removed the problems and now when starting windows it say cannot boot windows because msls51.dll was not found.

How do I install it? I'm getting a right ticking off from my friend now after trying to remove all the crap from his machine!

Browntoa

can you start it in safe mode ??

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=211046

Browntoa

msls51.dll is contained within uxtheme.dll

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Themes/UXTheme-Patch-For-Windows-XP-SP2-Final.shtml

acoording to another post I read

putting that on a usb drive and then booting the machine with a linux CD like ubuntu will allow you to copy that file to the correct location

Browntoa

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic329129.html

jgallcash

Can't enable safe mode Browntoa.

Browntoa

make a linux cd

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

burn the ISO to a CD then boot the laptop with it

download to the file you need in post 3

needs to go in location

c:\windows\system32

jgallcash

Browntoa, you are a legend. I will try that later on and feedback, thanks so much for taking the time to help. Keep you posted

Browntoa

you will need to download the file to a USB drive so you can copy it over

jgallcash

Hi Browntoa (anybody)

Made myself a Ubuntu Disk and i'm running the pc from it so thats good (at least I can take off some important documents if I need to do a full reinstall)

The file from the link in post 3 is named "uxtheme.dll" and I have copied that onto A MEMORY STICK TO BE TRANSFERRED INTO THE BROKEN pc.

When I try to copy the file over I get a prompt which says:

A file named uxtheme.dll already exists in system 32, replacing it will overwrite it, do you want to continue?

Should I accept this or does this mean that adding this file will make no difference? I dont want to go ahead (its not my PC) before checking.

Browntoa

rename the existing file to uxtheme.old first just in case

jgallcash

Fixed Browntoa!!!!!

Where do I send the cheque?