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Hello,

The problem is as follows: I was following links to watch a movie, when my computer requested a restart to make updates. It then would not allow me to get back into Windows 7. Windows recommended recovery, etc failed. I could not do safe mode even. Now it allows me to get back into Win 7. I can browse the net through IE 64-bit. However, MS Outlook, or any other app does not work. I get the error, in a message box "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000135). Click OK to close the application." The MsgBox header always has the right name for the exe - such as Powerpnt.exe, iexplore.exe.

Remedies already tried include the following -

a. I tried to download MalwareBytes software but the installation is not allowed - same error message appears. I tried rkill (as indicated in a fairly exhaustive post elsewhere on this forum), the replacement of the extracted file to firefox/firefox.com, etc.

b. Another method I tried was to look for hidden devices (TDSS, etc.) - and found nothing.

c. Checkdisk.txt file creation: This was suggested also in a discussion thread elsewhere on this forum. I am happy to send you additional data points if anyone can guide me as to what data I should provide.

I am enclosing CHDSK.txt's contents below. Please help. Thank you.

The type of the file system is NTFS.

Volume label is OS.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.

Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...

0 percent complete. (0 of 160256 file records processed)

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160256 file records processed.

File verification completed.

198 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.

2 EA records processed.

44 reparse records processed.

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...

11 percent complete. (4145 of 210134 index entries processed)

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210134 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.

0 unindexed files scanned.

0 unindexed files recovered.

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...

60 percent complete. (3164 of 160256 file SDs/SIDs processed)

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160256 file SDs/SIDs processed.

Security descriptor verification completed.

24940 data files processed.

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...

99 percent complete. (0 of 34806496 USN bytes processed)

100 percent complete. (34799616 of 34806496 USN bytes processed)

34806496 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.

Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

233357311 KB total disk space.

52747860 KB in 128783 files.

81952 KB in 24941 indexes.

0 KB in bad sectors.

267771 KB in use by the system.

65536 KB occupied by the log file.

180259728 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.

58339327 total allocation units on disk.

45064932 allocation units available on disk.

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Hello MBAM Sentinel

Many thanks for your response. Unfortunately, I already gave the laptop to my Systems folks for formatting the HDD or giving me a new laptop. My sincere apologies for being late on the response to your suggestion - my backup laptop is relatively slow and I had to set up several software packages just to function.

Apologies.

How can I close this thread?

Thank you.

Regards,

-Anil

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