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JeanPaul:
Hello Members, I'm new here and I hope that someone can help me out with this problem.
I still work with a windows XP home edition and get the last week a message that it can't find regvr32 exe, my PC need it to install new software.
It there anybody who can help me with that problem?

Boggin:
Do you have a restore point back to when this was working - it may be because of something you have installed or because of an infection.

A scan with a robust antimalware scanner may be worthwhile.

You could boot into Safe Mode with Networking and use the ESET Free Online Scanner - https://www.eset.com/us/home/online-scanner/

A sfc /scannow run from the Command Prompt may restore the file but when running that cmd in XP you could be prompted to insert a XP CD as the system may not have all of the i386 files to replace from.

If you don't have a XP CD then you could create install media from - https://softsfreak.com/download-windows-xp-sp3-bootable-iso.html

I would advise running an antimalware scan on this ISO before proceeding with it though.

You can do this with the MSRT - go Start - Run and type mrt and press enter where you will see the file scan option.

JeanPaul:
Hi, thank you for your advice, the problem is that my XP is walking on his last legs, I already use ESET Smart Security, I also tried Zemana, Malwarebytes etc. but the problem still exist, sfc /scannow doesn't work anymore. I think the best way is to buy a repair CD for XP and go from there because the problems are too big.
But thanks again with thinking with me.

Boggin:
How do you mean "sfc /scannow doesn't work anymore" ?

Are you getting error messages ?

Boggin:
If you can get hold of a XP CD then you can boot up with it and select R for the Recovery Console and open Command Prompt.

At the prompt enter bcdedit |find "osdevice"

This will give you a partition letter.

For clarity, that is a Pipe symbol before find and is the uppercase of \

Enter this next cmd using that partition letter instead of the X I have exampled -

sfc /scannow /offbootdir=X:\ /offwindir=X:\Windows

and that will scan and repair as necessary comparing with the XP CD.

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