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[Solved] Shell32.dll bug in win 8 x64


rudrax

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I'm running a fresh copy of windows 8 pro x64 activated via skype phone activation. Today I was running autoruns app. There, an entry took my attention. Look below:

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Then I tried fixing it with SFC /scanfile="shell32.dll" but it have shown the following:

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Need help with this.

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Not sure, but did you modify your Windows 8 in any way? You could have modified shell32.dll.

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Not at all. I didn't even patch or try to patch my system files with anything.

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Well, I have edited the context menu entries with Windows 8 manager's Context menu editor and I guess those context menu entries are handled by shell32.dll. So, when I have edited the entries, it might have changed the default property of shell32.dll for which it's no longer verified by MS.

I've edited the context menu entries below:

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Is it the reason?

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AFAIK , If no attempt at all has been made to verify , this notification appears (Not verified), meaning it has not even bothered to try verification.

This does not mean that it is not verified by MS.

If it had tried verification and been unable to verify, the notification would have been (Unable to verify) .

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AFAIK , If no attempt at all has been made to verify , this notification appears (Not verified), meaning it has not even bothered to try verification.

This does not mean that it is not verified by MS.

If it had tried verification and been unable to verify, the notification would have been (Unable to verify) .

And, why SFC command can't fix this?

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I take it your os was running fine until you saw this "problem" in autoruns. But due to the amount of tweaks/mods you have employed, it makes it difficult to pin down which may cause it (of course dcs would probably nail it in a minute :D ).

sfc /scanfile not to run at all (or did it run then hang?) and give no error log is unusual though. Did you try running sfc /verifyfile=<file> and sfc /scannow to see if they work ok? If not, it could be due to a reported bug in one of your Windows updates.

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I take it your os was running fine until you saw this "problem" in autoruns. But due to the amount of tweaks/mods you have employed, it makes it difficult to pin down which may cause it (of course dcs would probably nail it in a minute :D ).

sfc /scanfile not to run at all (or did it run then hang?) and give no error log is unusual though. Did you try running sfc /verifyfile=<file> and sfc /scannow to see if they work ok? If not, it could be due to a reported bug in one of your Windows updates.

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May be windows update will fix it but there is a update of 1GB which is very painful for me. I will download them slowly.

Not sure if this would work, but have you tried using the SFC command whilst booted up in safe mode?

Why shall I need to boot in safe mode as the process is supposed to work in normal mode?

There are quite a lot troubleshoot out and fix in this topic you may try some of those:

How to Fix shell32.dll Error

Let me completely update my windows first. I will try such fixers latter.

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I suggest you don't download all the updates together. As in, download a 100MB of updates one day, 100MB next day and so. Reason is, sometimes the downloaded updates get lost when you don't download them all and reboot/shutdown the PC in middle. I've personally faced this problem on Windows 8 where I had re-download stuff.

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I suggest you don't download all the updates together. As in, download a 100MB of updates one day, 100MB next day and so. Reason is, sometimes the downloaded updates get lost when you don't download them all and reboot/shutdown the PC in middle. I've personally faced this problem on Windows 8 where I had re-download stuff.

Yeah as my ISP is ridiculously slow, I use to follow that trick for updating my windows. Thanks for your head up though. This shows - how much we care for each other :) (no g@y sense, BTW :lol:)

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Welcome. :)

On your connection, I'd personally never download updates from Windows Updates. I'd always use some reliable 3rd party Windows Updates downloader.

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Welcome. :)

On your connection, I'd personally never download updates from Windows Updates. I'd always use some reliable 3rd party Windows Updates downloader.

Yeah, that is really good idea. In that way, I can save the updates for future use. Can you suggest me a good/reliable (light and if possible, portable too) windows update downloader?

Is WUD good? It's really light.

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Personally, I have no idea. I feel someone like anuraag or november_ra1n might have more knowledge than me in this one.

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Personally, I have no idea. I feel someone like anuraag or november_ra1n might have more knowledge than me in this one.

This ain't good. Can't resume interrupted downloads.

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Oh hell yeah. Guess what? I've found fix for it. I've launched SFC.exe /scannow through Windows 8 manager and it fixed the issue for me :dance:

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There seems still some complexions.

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Good. :)

This does mean your shell32.dll was modified in some way.

Post that log here if you want.

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Good. :)

This does mean your shell32.dll was modified in some way.

Post that log here if you want.

I can't upload 6MB file at the moment :(

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Do you know text files have very high compression rate?

Either way, by post it, I mean, copy/paste. But I guess it might be way too big to fit here, in a post.

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Copy-paste also requires same amount of data transmission. I tried pasting the log into tny.cz but firefox shows "sendin file to...." as it does on other file uploads.

Yeah, the idea of compressing it may work. I may get a 97% of compression with winRAR. Are you interested in looking into the log file because, you can imagine how big will a 6MB .txt file be.

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Lot of the lines are just duplicates. There's a lot of data but easy look into.

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