Need Windows XP help -- badly

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I need to defrag windows installation drive D because I have made a lot
of software changes, removal of software that is not used and installation
of many games and game demos, and some utilities.

I opened the widows defragmenter and none of the buttons say anything
so I do not know what to click, same in the drop down menu.

I opened add/remove programs to click add/remove windows components
and I get the error, stop message:

message box:

Windows XP setup
[ ! ]
Setup library msdtcstp.dll could not be loaded, or function OcEntry cold not be found.
Contact your system administrator. The specific error code is 0x7e.
[ OK ] click

new message box:

windows XP setup
[ X ]
The application could not be initialized
[ OK ] click

After this mess I try to open the Windows help file, no joy and no help file.
I definitely do not want to use "system restore" because I never created a
"restore point" as long as I have owned XP, maybe two years now.

Anyone know what on Earth I should do? ANY help is GREATLY appreciated.

TIA,

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Giant_Alex
cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com

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Stoopid me, problem solved, no more help needed. I ever so foolishly used
a cute lil' proggy called "DLLArchive". I had recently used it to get rid of
unused DLL files that are supposedly not connected with anything, the proggy
is supposed to figure this out, no worky for win-xp as it is (C) 2000, before
XP. I restored all DLLs and everything works fine.

http://www.analogx.com/welcome.htm

Thanks for the replies,

--
Giant_Alex
cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com

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Well, you could go out on the web, and find a site that specializes in Dlls,
etc.and download missing ones, or extract them from the XP disk.
However, without knowing what you really uninstalled, It's simpler to
suggest a windows repair install.

"AAvK" <ahem@notquite.net> wrote in message
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>
> > Try this:-
> > How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows
> > http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;315341
> >
>
> Why not individual component extraction from the wxp disc?
>
> --
> Giant_Alex
> cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com
>
>

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If you need to defrag you might try Perfect Disk. It's free for 30 days.


"AAvK" <ahem@notquite.net> wrote in message
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>
> I need to defrag windows installation drive D because I have made a lot
> of software changes, removal of software that is not used and installation
> of many games and game demos, and some utilities.
>
> I opened the widows defragmenter and none of the buttons say anything
> so I do not know what to click, same in the drop down menu.
>
> I opened add/remove programs to click add/remove windows components
> and I get the error, stop message:
>
> message box:
>
> Windows XP setup
> [ ! ]
> Setup library msdtcstp.dll could not be loaded, or function OcEntry cold
> not be found.
> Contact your system administrator. The specific error code is 0x7e.
> [ OK ] click
>
> new message box:
>
> windows XP setup
> [ X ]
> The application could not be initialized
> [ OK ] click
>
> After this mess I try to open the Windows help file, no joy and no help
> file.
> I definitely do not want to use "system restore" because I never created a
> "restore point" as long as I have owned XP, maybe two years now.
>
> Anyone know what on Earth I should do? ANY help is GREATLY appreciated.
>
> TIA,
>
> --
> Giant_Alex
> cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com
>

Best Defragger, the new Diskeeper.
The Premiere version is best, has IFAAST.
see here

Actually, if you have a 7200 RPM drive, tests have shown defragging is of little practical use in most cases, except for the extremely fragged drive.