OE 5.0 DLL - help!

[TouchedByMagic]

First of all what is DLL?
My OE 5.0 has not been working recently. Whenever i try to load up the program i get a few seconds of background working shown by that little hourglass next to the mouse pointer and thats it. Nothing else happens. I thought reinstallation would fix the problem but once the program has finished copying of the W98 disk i get an error message for each DLL file saying its corrupt. Whats wrong? Can i fix it? Please help! :confused:

[Gresyth]

"In computers, a dynamic link library (DLL) is a collection of small programs, any of which can be called when needed by a larger program that is running in the computer. The small program that lets the larger program communicate with a specific device such as a printer or scanner is often packaged as a DLL program (usually referred to as a DLL file). "

quoted from (http://iroi.seu.edu.cn/books/whatis/dll.htm)

[Mr B]

**"Moved post to "Software and Operating Systems".**

Mr B

[TouchedByMagic]

OK so now i know what DLL is but dont suppose any1 knows whats happening to OE? Could it be because i was defragging my harddrive and my computer froze so i had to reboot?

[turd]

i dont know what OE is but you should try to replace the corrupt/listed dll(s) individually aas a first step if reinstal did not work

[TouchedByMagic]

OE as in Outlook Express. The only way to install the files is off the Win98 disk. I cant seem to locate the files. Its a big disk! Is there anyway of seeing what files have conflicts or associated with the wrong progams? This is starting to annoy! :mad:

[turd]

ok try going to this link read and download and then reinstal

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q256/2/19.asp?FinishURL=%2Fdownloads%2Frelease%2Easp%3Fre leaseid%3D26288%26redirect%3Dno

you could also do like an update to oe from the ms site i think this would also repair

[TouchedByMagic]

Thanx for that link. Very very helpful! What would i do without u people? ;)

[TouchedByMagic]

OK i re-installed outlook express. and it runs. but a few things...
1) it installed to C:\Program Files\OUTLOO~1 instead of outlook express

2) i think (1) might of effected it. When i try and download the hotmail folders it wont work. And everytime i start up it aks if i want to make it my default mail server so i click ok yet it still does it. (i overcame this problem by setting is as default myself but it should of done it when it asked!)

Any thoughts?

[m1066ad]

Try running System File Checker. Put your Windows CD in, and click start>run then type sfc
If it finds any files altered or missing, tell it to restore them from the CD. You may have to tell it what folders to check.