After going to recovery console a bunch of files were being checked and set up, after that occurred its asking which portion of the setup program, which prepares microsoft windowso XP to run on my computer. So do i choose; set up windows XP now or to repair a windows XP installation using recovery console or to quit setup without installing windows XP.

Thanks.

Repair.

But before you do that, did you give the sfc.exe a shot in safe mode?

also, repair is just going to dump you at a c prompt, so let's give sfc.exe in safe mode a crack first.

no, as i said before logging into safe mode gives me the blank screen with the usually safe mode wallpaper.

Because there is no start button i can't acceff run, i tried turning on explore.exe in windows task manger though the new task button however that fail as i am given the message saying iertutil.dll is missing, the same message i'm given as on start up i then tried running ffc.exe though that new task button but the same thing happened.

this will replace the ietutil.dll file. What should have happened is that 6.0 should have automatically been reinstalled on this rig. Did this machine ever have 6.0, or is it a new build with 7.0 only?

IEFix Utility - Description

thanks,

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what do you mean by 6.0 or 7.0?