Solved Changing .DLL Files

Falsemajesty

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Greetings everyone !
Minor problem here and i was hoping someone has a fix. I recently tried to install a new Visual Style, I have done this before so i know what to do. I replaced the Explorer.DLL and changed my Shell32.DLL to .BKP then went to put the new one in, however it says it has copied but it is not there, so i though to hell with it ill just put everything back and solve it another time, however i cannot change the .BKP back either now. Unlucky for me i lost power during this process and had no explorer but just managed to fix the problem and hoping someone could help me either tranfer the new files or just put everything back the way it was.

Extra Info.. When i drag and drop shell32.dll the copy bar comes up, screen flashes but it does not appear in system32.
Also since getting explorer back up it has gone to some Win2000 looking theme.
I have all the original system files though.

I hope i have been descriptive enough and thank you for your time.
 

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Thank you, was hoping it wouldn't come to a restore but even with changing all the permissions i cannot do anything with the files, so will do a restore now.
 

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You're welcome :)
Is there no way to open cmd ? Hold windows button+r then type cmd and hit enter.
Let me know what happened !
 

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You shouldn't have any trouble copying the dll back from outside of Windows.

Just boot up any boot media - and do it.

If you haven't got any external boot media to hand - do the old tapping f8 jobbie and boot into winre.

Fire up command prompt, type Notepad - when notepad pops up, click File > Save - that will bring up a familiar file browse window ( remember to select All files in the drop down box instead of .txt files ).
 

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Ah finally got it to work with sfc /scannow, so if anyone has had a similar problem i would recommend this. Was fairly fast (Roughly 2 mins for the scan) Then a reboot.
Step 1. Run Windows in safe mode with command prompt by pressing f8 at start-up.
Step 2 Type Sfc /Scannow and hit enter.
Thank you for all your help
 

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Intel i5 3.20GHz
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Intel DQ57TM
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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
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1360x768
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Samsung HD154UI ATA 1.5 TB
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650w Unamed
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heatsynk, Space for x3 Additional fans
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Logitech K120
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Sound's good :)
You're welcome !
 

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PC/Desktop
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Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64
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Intel Core I5-3570K
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Gigabyte Z77-D3H
Memory
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHz
Graphics Card(s)
Evga Geforce GTX 660
Sound Card
Integrated
Monitor(s) Displays
HP 2009m
Screen Resolution
1600x900
Hard Drives
2 Internal 500 GB
1 External 3TB
1 120GB SSD (OS)
PSU
750 Watt
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Thermaltake VM600M1W2Z Dokker Tower Case
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Razer Deathstalker Ultimate
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Roccat Kova+
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Kaspersky Antivirus 2013
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