“taskkill” command not working anymore

Question

After installing an app, my %PATH% got reset to an empty string. I then re-added C:\WINDOWS\system32 to it. When I run taskkill, I get

"This application has failed to start because framedyn.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

I did a search and taskkill is also present in C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$, together with framedyn.dll

Is it a good idea to add that directory to the path as well? Can anyone explain, what's going on?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Add this to your PATH:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem

If there is no framedyn.dll file in the above folder, run %systemroot%\system32\dllcache from the run box and copy the framedyn.dll file from that folder to C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem.