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cannot find shell.dll

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Hope that I am posting this in the right section & posting this correctly.
But I am trying to uninstall AVG & it will not let me, because I am getting these errors:

http://webpages.charter.net/versatil...ages/shell.jpg

http://webpages.charter.net/versatil...ges/shell2.jpg

by the way I am running Windows XP & IE6 ....

Thanks in advance for any help given.
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Re: cannot find shell.dll

Courtney:

This may sound counter-intuitive, however try this: Re-install AVG, and then uninstall AVG. Hopefully, by reinstalling, shell.dll (should) be put back in place. Then an uninstall (again, should) go without a hitch.

Good luck!
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tys for answering me back, but the same happens when I try to reinstall. :-|
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What OS are you running? XP? 2k?

let me know . . .
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I am running Windows XP & IE6 ....
tys again
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Re: cannot find shell.dll

Okay . . . here's what I think:

You can get a copy of shell.dll from here: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?shell .

Try downloading shell.dll, and placing it in either C:\windows\system or c:\windows\system32 (try one, if that doesn't work, try the other)

I cannot promise this will work, and I cannot promise that this won't break something else.

My Advice is this: If it were my computer, I would try it. However it might break something along the way (but *probably* not)

Let me know how it goes!

-vermonter.
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Okies that worked for the shell, I think that is taken care of however, (o how I hate howevers sometimes lol) I am getting this error when I try to uninstall or install AVG again, I am wondering if this is something that I may need to get ahold of AVG for, maybe something is wrong with their download? What do you think? ....

http://webpages.charter.net/versatil...mages/avg3.jpg


Tys for your help!
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Re: cannot find shell.dll

Hmm. . . .

Can you download the AVG file brand new? Perhaps the .exe is corrupted?

See if that helps.

let me know -

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Yup I am downloading this from Grisoft,
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php
I was actually wanting to uninstall this & try out Avast instead. This is so odd.
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wow, and you just downloaded the avg file, right? You might want to try downloading it a second time, but if you have already done that, I am running out of ideas.

Sometimes files get lost on the hard drive -- perhaps running disk defrag might help. I am stretching now, but it is worth a try.

Or do you have a software package like Norton System works? That might do the trick as well.

let me know, and we will see what we can do . . .

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