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Shell.dll Not Found Or Missing – How to Fix Shell.dll Errors

By John on Oct 13, 2009 |Computers

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Have you ever met with shell.dll errors? When it happens, your computer might pop up an error message saying shell.dll not found or missing. You cannot start your IE or other applications and are required to reinstall the application. That is really annoying!   What is Shell.dll?      Shell.dll is an important executable file of Dynamic Link Library in Windows 2003, XP and Vista. It contains Windows Shell API functions which are used when opening web pages and files. If it is corrupted or missing, some essential applications like Internet Explorer will not be able to work properly.   How can we get rid of this vexatious problem?   Shell.dll errors are usually caused by the removal or corruption of the file and registry problem. The best way to get rid of this errors is to reinstall the applications which were told having a shell.dll file not found.   But I will tell you a much easier way to solve it without reinstallation of the applications. That is, replace the missing or corrupted file with a intact one. Does that sound easy? Let me tell you how to repair it by this way.   1)        Download a intact shell.dll file. There are thousands of website which provide the download of dll files. 2)        Find out which application or software has the error and the folder where you saved the installation files. Normally the folder is C:/Program Files/X (X represents the program name) 3)        Open the folder and paste the file into the folder.   Solve the problem completely!   After you complete the steps above, you have successfully repair shell.dll missing or corruption error. But I suggest you use a dll repair tool to help you do this work. Because it can be very risky that you do it manually if you are not excel at computer.   And you should have a registry scan too. Because invalid or corrupted registry keys can also cause dll file errors. You can click here to    have a registry scan to help you fix invalid, corrupted or missing registry . And you can click here to download a dll repair tool to help you    fix shell.dll errors   completely!

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