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Shell32.dll Wants to open with ANY keypress
Hi All - a very frustrated newbie here.
I did have Vista installed on my laptop, and recently a strange occurunce started happening - everytime I pressed ANY key on my keyboard Windows Media Player would aggresively open, and dominate my desktop, I tried AVG, trojan reomver, and NOD32 - none of them found a problem.
I searched google endlessly looking for an answer - all I could find was someone saying that the got aorund this problem by installing Windows 7.
Last night I sat down and installed Windows 7, all of the install went fine, not a glitch - when it was all finished I jubilantly pressed the G key on my keyboard feeling smug that I had gotten rid of the virus/torjan - but guess what, out came Windows Media Centre -AAARRRGGGGHHHHHH - So what I went on to do, is disable Windows Media Centre in Windows Features within Control Panel - of course this stopped WMP popping up - but now I have Windows giving me an error message to say 'Shell32.dll wants to open, but Windows does no know what to associate the file with' - So I guess now I have switched WMP off, the infected Shell32 wants to run, but I can't as I have disabled WMP - hence why I am getting the error message..
My question to the tech wizards, is how can I replace/rebuild/reinstall a non-infected Shell32.dll file? Is it indeed the System Shell32.dll that is at fault/??
I assume that this is an altered file due to a virus as no virus proggys pick it up - but who knows, it might be a clean install if nothing found
For everyones info, I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit
Thanks everyone
Gaz