Improperly patched UxTheme.dll: cannot use computer

I had a Vista theme installed in my xp for a while. everything went ok until tow weeks after the installation.

When I start windows, it give me this message " lsass.exe -unable to locate component, This application failed to start because UxTheme.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." the whole screen is black after the welcome screen. "userinit.exe -unable to locate component, ..." after i clicked (OK), "explorer.exe - unable to locate component..."(and same UxTheme.dll message) the mouse moves just fine, just that the screen stays black instead of showing normal desktop with icons and start at the bottom.

I tried control-alt-delete, it gives me "taskmgr.exe - ...." I can't go anywhere from there!

I have folders that are valuable to me, I can't access it now...I really regret installing the theme on my xp. is there a way to replace UxTheme.dll without being able to login? Please I need help

#454221

1.)Try booting from your XP CD and copying over UXtheme.dll from it.

2.)Try booting into safe mode - press F8 during pre-boot/BIOS post message, and then copy over a uxtheme.dll from Down DLL or something like that.

I hope this helps. I've never heard of such a thing though.

Edit - Here's a download for UXTheme.dll - http://www.down-dll.com/dll/u/uxtheme.dll.zip

#454223

nothing pops up, I can't get into my computer or start button or anything.

How do I copy over UXtheme.dll? are you talking about copy and paste, drag and drop? I can't do either of those.

#454227

Hmm...now that i think about it Safe Mode won't work.

Ok, to copy over.

1.)Insert your CD

2.)Boot up, and go into BIOS. Tell it to boot from your CD

3.)Save and exit, restart.

4.)It will come up with a repair option.

This is as much as i know, i haven't encountered such a thing. Sorry mate Good luck!

#454228

Im running in raid 0, and for some reason when I choose repair, it doesn't recognize the hard drives.

#454229

hmm.... thats strange. I think you should back up and reformat :slant: or wait until some windowsbox guru comes to see the thread

#454231

thnx for your help.

can anyone help me please?

#454235

I had a Vista theme installed in my xp for a while. everything went ok until tow weeks after the installation.

When I start windows, it give me this message " lsass.exe -unable to locate component, This application failed to start because UxTheme.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." the whole screen is black after the welcome screen. "userinit.exe -unable to locate component, ..." after i clicked (OK), "explorer.exe - unable to locate component..."(and same UxTheme.dll message) the mouse moves just fine, just that the screen stays black instead of showing normal desktop with icons and start at the bottom.

I tried control-alt-delete, it gives me "taskmgr.exe - ...." I can't go anywhere from there!

I have folders that are valuable to me, I can't access it now...I really regret installing the theme on my xp. is there a way to replace UxTheme.dll without being able to login? Please I need help

Press ctrl-alt-delete, and then when Task Manager opens, do the following:

File-->New Task-->Browse

Using this method, you'll be able to copy over the new uxtheme.dll file that AppleThink linked you to. It's not a bad idea to keep a backup of the old (broken) one, though.

But yeah, once you have the "Browse" window open, you can use the right-click button on your mouse to rename/copy/paste things.

Hope this helps,

-NC

#454248

hello im having the same problem i accidently tried to patch the theme files manually but i deleted the files and i can get to the log in screen but when i log in black screen and my dad got the files that r missing on a CD for me so can someone plz help i just ****ed up a 700 dollar brand new 1 day old computer

#518489

There are two options open to you:

1) When you log in and the black screen appears, does anything pop up when you press Ctrl + Shift + Esc, or Ctrl +Alt + Del? If so, follow my directions in the post immediately above yours.

2) You say the computer is 1 day old. There can't be too much of your data on it. Why not reformat and reinstall Windows?

Hope this helps,

NC

#518492

ummm i got my itunes on there and i dont wanna redownload all of my music for my ipod and i got really important documents on there

and nothing does show up i cant bring up Task manger

but i was trying to system restore from something called Adavanced Boot setting or something like that

but it didnt work but im going to try it again i just have to figure out how to get to Start Repair

//Posts Merged. Read the board rules about double posting. -NC

#518494

Hmm, well, the principle of my first hint remains the same. Use your favorite boot disk (Ultimate Boot CD is pretty good, as are any of the free Linux distributions, or just use whatever came with your computer) to boot up in MS-DOS or some alternate environment, and then replace the bad uxtheme.dll file with a clean version.

Good luck,

-NC

#518521

i once had something similar to this. I burned the free Ubuntu on a cd and live-booted my pc from there, repatched the uxtheme file and it worked again.

#520242

Don't forget to either use the latest version of Ubuntu or do apt-get install ntfs-3g and properly setup it (old versions mount NTFS read-only)

#520544