My folks' PC has a strange problem. There is a file C:\Windows\System32\COMCTL32.dll
on their machine, but it is obviously the wrong file, because I cannot start many applications, including useful utilities such as depends.exe
and even handle.exe
(because they want to open a prompt dialog on the very first run).
Windows Update and Windows Defender Update both fail as well for the same reason. There are many sites dedicated to this issue, but none simply give a link to the download.
Any ideas how I can restore the correct COMCTL32.dll
file?
Note: Windows version is 6.1.7601, 32 bits.