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a continuation from my nail.exe thread
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:59 pm
by brinstar
if you'll recall, in the other thread i mentioned that i fried windows media player in the process of smoking out nail.exe
well today i realized that windows fax and picture viewer doesn't work anymore either
i can right-click on a file and click Open With... and then select windows fax and picture viewer and i get an alert box that says:
Error loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll
The system cannot find the file specified.
i googled shimgvw.dll and discovered that it pretty much IS windows fax and picture viewer... but i a) looked in my system32 folder and did indeed find shimgvw.dll and b) replaced it with a fresh one from dlldump.com and i still get the same error
why? how do i fix it?
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:44 pm
by Croniz
try this, drop down to a command prompt and type:
regsvr32 C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:15 pm
by brinstar
LoadLibrary("C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll") failed - The system cannot find the file specified.
WTF, i know it's in that folder, i can SEE it in there
why is this happening to me
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:38 pm
by Gidan
try and find another copy of the file and copy it over the top of that one. Its a long shot but its possible you had a corrupted download.
Its also a possiblity that the program that is trying to load the dll is the problem, it cant load it, not because it cant find it but because the program just hits a fatal error on the load and kicks back a cannot load error.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:40 pm
by brinstar
i already replaced it with a new copy of shimgvw.dll twice, downloaded from different websites, and still i get the same error
/!\ help /!\
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:30 am
by Martrae
[Start] [Run] type regedit.exe and click [OK]
Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/SystemFileAssociations/image/ShellEx /ContextMenuHandlers
Check the ShellImagePreview folder and make sure it has the String Value (Default)
{e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}
If not, then create it.
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:10 am
by Gidan
Reinstall windows if that fix doesn't help you
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:14 am
by Tossica
I had the same issues from this same malware except it was exporer.exe that was fried. I would remove the malware, reboot and then I could not get a desktop. Explorer.exe could not be found etc. I would restore the system state and it would be fine except the malware was present. I haven't found a fix for it other than blowing it away and reloading windows.
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:24 pm
by brinstar
Martrae wrote:[Start] [Run] type regedit.exe and click [OK]
Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/SystemFileAssociations/image/ShellEx /ContextMenuHandlers
Check the ShellImagePreview folder and make sure it has the String Value (Default)
{e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}
If not, then create it.
it was there, exactly as you typed it
and gidan, i would but i loaned my XP disk to a buddy
