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STOP c0000135 Unable to locate DLL WINSRV

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mikebach

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Nov 27, 2002
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2000 Pro desktop.

Following error occurs at boot.
STOP c0000135 Unable to locate DLL WINSRV could not be located. Could not be found in specified path

Message also appears in safemode. The machine constantly reboots now with that message. Any suggestions ?

Thanks
 
In addition,

I found this information on Microsoft's site:

Doug: I believe you are referring to either a STOP 0x00000135 in Winsrv.dll which is usually caused by a corrupted or invalid software registry hive, or a STOP 0xC0000135 (unable to locate DLL), which is usually caused by a missing or corrupt Winsrv.dll file. To resolve the second STOP, install a parallel install of Window NT or 2000 and copy over Kernel32.dll, Ntdll.dll, Win32k.sys, User32.dll, and Winsrv.dll. For more information, please see Knowledge Base article Q173309 "Blue Screen STOP Message C0000135 Appears at Startup".

Also, if you had started the installation of a Service Pack - and it failed to install - you may get this error becase of the wrong versions of DLLs installed. One way to fix this is:

1. Boot up an alternate version of Windows (Windows PE is great for this).

2. Look for the directory \%windir%\$NtServicePackUninstall$\spuninst

3. In that directory you'll find a spuninst.bat file -make sure the path references relate to the right drive letters - and then run the file. The batch file resturns all files back to the previous versions.. this worked for me!


 
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