Yo, saw this post about the msvcrt dll, and I fully agree, that thing's a pain.
I'm running Windows XP, and recently had to reinstall due to some strange program fuckups(programs refused to close when I told them to, and would take up 99% of my active CPU. Nasty thing.)
So this new reinstall was running great. I was installing the repretoire of windows updates that I usually do, and the very first update(a security update) caused my system to enter a state of nigh-irreversible hell. Somehow or another that update knocked out my msvcrt file completely. I was able to use a LKGC to get it back, but before I did that, not even safe mode would boot. And since my motherboard is a honkin piece of sod, I cant boot from CDs(word to the wise, dont buy Epox, they degrade in the oddest of ways. Yes, I tested many bootable CDs, many CD drives, et cetera). So that was a little less than fun.
So now that I have it back, sort of, my system is totally crippled. Windows media player was the first obvious casualty, going so far as to totally remove itself from existence. Most other media-related programs went pretty much belly-up as well, including the MSI PVS software by Intervideo. I KNEW that wasnt stable, but this is still ridiculous.
The biggest problem I face is that this also caused windows installer to go more than a little bad. Needless to say everything's a mess right now. Anyone got any one-step solutions for getting this sort of thing resituated? I'm guessing I could dig up another board and run a reinstall(again) and hope for some results, but I'd love it if I could do something short of that to solve this little canundrum.
