I'm trying to sort out a problem on a Win7 machine. Trying to boot gives the message
Stop C0000135 The program can't start because %hs is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
This message appears during an update when I start my computer !
Clearly this is useless because if I can't boot the machine, I can't reinstall ANYTHING, even if it had given some sort of clue as to what was wrong!
This happens exactly the same if I try to start Safe Mode or Safe Mode Command Prompt. Selecting Repair Computer (after F8 - it's a Dell Inspiron) just goes back to the boot menu but that may be down to lack of Dell bootloader.
Google searches for this error message provided nothing of value - lots of references to it being caused by AVG but that's not on this computer.
There is no \windows\minidump folder so I assume that facility wasn't turned on or it's not got far enough for windows to have recorded the fault!
Now I'm after any further ideas. If I knew what was wrong I could probably fix it but at the moment all I can think is that I need to wipe the disk and install from scratch, which would be a real pain.
Even just a confirmation that there's nothing I can do would be a help!
Stop C0000135 The program can't start because %hs is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
This message appears during an update when I start my computer !
Clearly this is useless because if I can't boot the machine, I can't reinstall ANYTHING, even if it had given some sort of clue as to what was wrong!
This happens exactly the same if I try to start Safe Mode or Safe Mode Command Prompt. Selecting Repair Computer (after F8 - it's a Dell Inspiron) just goes back to the boot menu but that may be down to lack of Dell bootloader.
Google searches for this error message provided nothing of value - lots of references to it being caused by AVG but that's not on this computer.
There is no \windows\minidump folder so I assume that facility wasn't turned on or it's not got far enough for windows to have recorded the fault!
Now I'm after any further ideas. If I knew what was wrong I could probably fix it but at the moment all I can think is that I need to wipe the disk and install from scratch, which would be a real pain.
Even just a confirmation that there's nothing I can do would be a help!