Hi, been researching this problem for a while now and nothing seems to help. I get no desktopm, no start menu,no task bar, no nothing after "explorer.exe cannnot find browseui.dll" at boot. I can do cntrl+alt+del and use any program that is not explorer based. Recovery console and chkdsk /r does not fix, command promtp and SFC/scannow does not fix. I have my XP CD and know of two ways to copy the file to my system but I cannot explore CD to figure where file is(nothing runs explorer based). I will be able to either use expand file in msconfig or use recovery console copy option to replace browseui.dll from my XP CD but I just cannot find info to get source(CD) and destination to copy the file to. If the complete syntax for such could be provided to me I would appreciate it.


On a side and rather weird note, I CAN use IE still! lol! Think the culprit was installing a new CD burning prog. Will be removing that soon as I can get to add/remove(it explorer based). And yes, two diff companies virus scans run and two diff companies bot/ad checks, I am clean.

I have 13 locations of browseui.dll

6 are $NtService Pack Uninstall$

4 are SP2 $hf_mig$

1 is ServicePackFiles\i386

the other 2 are

1. System32

2. System32\dllcache

On the XP CD I would expect it in i386 with the destination being the latter 2 System32. Am unsure the importance of the service pack entries.

Also here is a downloadable version:

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dl...shtml?browseui

Hi again and thanks. More of a hardware guy but posts I read at other boards also made it seem so easy what I wanted to do. I also read of people giving up and sending them into the shop. Here is how I finally replaced it. Trying to copy from XP cd in msconfig expand file was not working. File was named browseui.dl_ on the CD for some reason. Or when i tried to get to where it was on CD by browsing it would only let me look for a .cab file and not let me see what I wanted. When I tried just typing the path in instead of browsing it it would start working like it was looking to read it.then nothing. Today at work I made two floppies, one with it just on the floppy itself and one with it on a floppy in a folder. Cannnto recall which of them finally worked for me but that was the only way I was able to copy it. Got all my stuff back and comp seems fine. If anyone else ever asks give them the copy from floppy idea, that was the only way it was ever gonna work for me I guess. Was really pullin my hair out cause the answer seemed so darn easy to do yet it would never work for me no matter how many different ways I tried, even in recovery console and trying to copy the file from the CD< no joy. LOL! God this was NOT a fun time. Oh well, I read that this happens to others every so often due to installing a new app and it replaces or corrupts the dll so thought I would pass on my fix I finally was able to do. Read of it happening to one person after he installed a digital camera.

And trust me, I tried every path from cd for both browseui.dll and browseui.dl_ just to try to get anything to work. LOL!

Thanks for the update & the tip & the thanks! Glad you got it going.

Just another note:

Files with a filename extension dl_ are, as the extension implies,
incomplete so renaming won't work any more than simply copying to a different
directory would. It has to be expanded from its compressed state on the CD
or in the SP directory and the way to do that is with the expand command in
what looks like an old DOS window in XP. As has been posted, you bring that
up by typing cmd in the Start>Run box and at the C:\ prompt type expand
D:\i386\???.dl_ c:\Windows\System32\???.dll where D is your CD and i386 is
the folder on that CD containing the file you want and where System32 is the
target folder for the newly expanded file.

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