My father brought me his computer. I could open nothing that was exe, and I could not run any opperations like regedit. I finaly got through these errors. He said they were due to him using spybot. So I did an undo on all the files it removed. I ran a norton virus scan and found 11 files that norton had not named as a virus yeat. Probably bad scripts. They were located in the internet temp folder. I also had to repair some nivida errors that was coming up in boot up. It was the consoule items that start at boot. After all this repairing I thought I was free and clear, Untill I install Service Pack 2 for XP. During the initial extraction of the i386 folder, It crashed stating that I could not find the file. (imagehlp.dll). Thinking it was a bad file I replaced it from one of my other computers. Did not work. So I moved my entire i386 folder from another computer with the same type of XP (XP Pro SP1). This did not work. From all the transfering of this file I had one in the folder on the desktop of the afflicted computer. I attempted to remove it, and it told me that it could not delete the file because it could not find it. So I changed the file from imagehlp.dll to imagehlp.bob. After I did this I could move the file normaly. Everything I have done was in the Administrator account with all safty features turned off. As a side note I was able to open any of the other dll's with notpad (looking all gibbrish like inside) but they did open and did not tell me that they could not find the file. It all comes down to the fact that no matter where I place this file on the afflicted computer (even the file on my thumbdrive when connected) cannot be found therefore cannot be opened, but if the same file is moved to another computer it opperates normaly.

Any help would be greatly appreasheated, I just put so much time in this one that I dont want to give up on it.

Thank you,

You wrote:
>"...that no matter where I place this file on the afflicted computer.."

The 'imagehlp.dll' file?

I have a problem similar to that. I thought it could be fixed by reinstalling sp1a then installing sp2, but when i tried to install sp1a I get another error message. Spybot isn't the problem. I've tried it before and after spybot was put on my system. Hijackthis didn't catch anything unusual either.

Please start your own thread rather than hijacking another member's discussion. Thanks

it was not my intention to hijack this thread. i thought i was contributing. sorry