Solved Windows bootes but can't start any programm not even device manager

[Samy345]

Hi my problem started with some security updates the last days or so that failed.

After that windows started with chkdsk which printed out a lot of stuff like, "remove index from blabla" and so on. After that my windows started normally but I got a lot of errors from nearly all startup applications that "oleaut32.dll" is missing.

I wanted to start the event-viewer to check the log of chkdsk but it won't start. Giving me the error message "not enough memory" the same message comes when I want to start the device manager or similiar windows system programms. In safe mode I have the same problem.
I have 12gig of memory and windows uses about 1,5g so there must be another reason.

If I want to start any other programm like firefox or similar i get alot of missing something errors and it won't work.

I don't think the hard-drive broke because I have ubuntu running on another partition on the same hard-drive and it works just prefect. Right now i'm checking the hardrive with ubuntu nevertheless to be save.

What do you think I can do to repair my windows?

 

[panais]

Hi.

Did you tried? http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html

 

[Samy345]

Hi.

Did you tried? http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html

Hi, cant start it from within windows, and i think my startup disk wont recognize my windows because I use grub as boot-loader. But i will give it a try after the disk check is completed.

 

[Samy345]

Well the Hard-Drive is fine as expected.

I used a not so sophisticated way to fix most of the problems: I also have a partition with windows vista on it and copied all of the missing dlls from there in my System32 folder. Those where: oleacc.dll, oleaut32.dll, iertutil.dll, wininet.dll, urlmon.dll
now most of the programs seem to work again.

I must say microsoft did a pretty bad job with their update software if it can **** up your system like that.

Well I'm going to try to run the updates again, I wonder what will happen

 

[panais]

Run just 1 or 2 updates each time and make a system restore

 

[Samy345]

Updates worked out and no more errors occurred. I consider this problem solved.

 

[panais]

Good news!

Of course you are always welcome to post back with any news.