XP SP2:
So I clicked on my "An update is ready for your computer"...
And against my better judgment told it to install IE 7.
When it rebooted, it came up with checksum error, "bad or corrupt WININET.DLL".
So I booted in Safe mode.
Came up with checksum error, "bad or corrupt SHDOCVW.DLL".
So I copied WININET.DLL from another XP SP2 machine onto a USB stick, launch UBCD4WIN on the bad machine, rename \SYSTEM32\WININET.DLL to WININET.DLL.OLD, and copy WININET.DLL from USB stick onto bad machine.
Reboot, and get the SHDOCVW.DLL error.
So I did the same thing, but copying SHDOCVW.DLL, and rebooted.
Huzzah, for now!
Got to the Windows User signon screen, clicked on my name, and...
The screen is blank. The screen is the color of my Windows background, but there are no icons. The mouse pointer is there, and it responds to the touchpad, but that is it.
The HD light is solid.
I have not attempted restarting in Safe because I am afraidrebooting right now will be bad.
Any advice, direction, would be great!
Thanks