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cgrhpfan98

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Like the title says I'm unable to boot up any programs other than a few select ones such as OBS, Microsoft Security Essentials, and CCLEANER.

At first my computer kept blue screening at startup and then startup repair fixed it after the third or fourth time. Then it was giving me a wow64.dll error when I tried launching programs. I fixed that by copying the wow64.dll from another windows machine and replacing mine. Now I'm getting this error.

Ive looked it up and spent a ton of time trying to fix it. I've done a full virus scan in safe mode to make sure it isn't due to malware and I'm running out of ideas. Can anyone help me please?

Also when I boot it up it seems to be taking a lot longer than normal. And when I boot up aero is disabled

My specs:

AMD FX 6350 cpu
EVGA GTX 660 SC gpu
8gb Ram
2, 1TB Seagate barracuda hard drives

Please help me and let me know if you need more information
 
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What error? "this error" but nothing else ...

I'm not sure what the problem is yet. I was hoping you would follow the microsoft answer, and see if that allowed your programs to start working again. Because I do believe right now that you may have the wrong version of wow64.dll on your system. And if I am right, that's probably why most of your programs refuse to run.
 
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MarkW,

I'm getting error code 0xc0000005 whenever I try to run most proams. It started happening when I tried fixing an issue with wow64.dll. I just did sfc /scannow in the cmd and it found corrupt files and can't replace them so I'm doing dism.ex /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth which I read about somewhere online.

However the version of wow64.dll I'm using right now says it was last modified in 2011. Could that be a problem?
 
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I cannot answer that. I'm running Windows 8.1 here.

Just for giggles, I looked to see what the date is of the wow64.dll on my machine is, and its October 28, 2014. Which would indicate to me that it was updated by some patch, since that's 6 months after I built this computer, and 5 months after I last installed Windows on this computer.

So if they updated it through a patch on Windows 8.1, they probably did it on Win 7 as well.

I am beginning to think you are going to need to re-install windows to fix this. if you have a mismatched wow64.dll, and that windows answer I linked earlier stated that the dll is a main part of windows, and you do not appear to have a backup since you went to another computer to get a replacement for the dll, the only way I can think of to get everything back into sync is to reinstall windows, and then all of the patches until you are up to date again. After you reinstall, go to the motherboard manufacturer's web site and download all of the drivers for your system from there, and install each one of those. Make sure you do not go to the chip makers web sites. They release generic drivers. Motherboard makers will have the specific drivers for the chips on that motherboard.

And doing that will mean you will also need to reinstall almost all, or all, of the software you have on your system, since your registry will be recreated by the reinstall, and almost every program out there needs entries in the registry to function anymore.

It will take awhile to do all of this. But its the only sure fix I see.
 
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Well I'm typing this from my "fixed" computer. The wow64.dll I took was from a computer I was fixing up for my mom so I just copied the wow64.dll from another computer and replaced the one on my computer with it and it works now! So I'm gonna do a backup of all my important dlls and files now just in case this ever happens again. Thanks for your help!
 
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