Error Loading Explorer.exe

[Toodles]

Well, it's me again with my infamous WindowsME errors. This time it's: "Error Loading Explorer.exe You Must Reinstall Windows"

I searched this on Google and got a howto from the Microsoft site (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306599). I did everything they told me to do, and I still get the error.

Behind the error message is another that says that the required file MSVCRT.dll was not found.

This error began after the system restarted after uninstalling Flash.

[soybean]

Here you can download [highlight]msvcrt.dll[/highlight] free of charge.

[Toodles]

How can I get it on the system? I can't get windows to load cause of the error.

[soybean]

Here's some more info on msvcrt.dll: msvcrt - msvcrt.dll - DLL Information.

Sounds to me like you may have to format your hard drive and reinstall Win ME to resolve this.  

[Toodles]

Err... well I also read it's possible to extract it from a WindowsME cd. But I dont have one so I was wondering is there another metheod to getting the file replaced. One that doesn't involve wiping my hard drive  :-/

[Toodles]

If I take the drive from the other computer, put it into this one as a slave, then replace the .dll file, would it work then?

Or does making a hd a slave somehow erase or mess up the OS? Because I was told that's what I did when I made the drive a slave last time I had trouble with it. Or is that person just telling me bs?

[Toodles]

I fixed it successfully. Thank you very, very much Soybean for your advice and the link