Windows Update hosed my Windows!

Yesterday I ran Windows Update. It told me to restart the computer, but since it was late, I shutdown.

Today I booted Windows. AVG tells me that avgcc.dll is not a valid DLL. I started Internet Explorer - it froze when loading a page. I started MSN Messenger - it tells me shfolder.dll is not a valid DLL. Windows Update hosed my Windows installation! Upon analyses, it turns out that 6 more DLLs in my system32 folder are corrupted. I don’t even have the Windows installation CD - PC vendors don’t even provide them anymore these days, so I can’t reinstall Windows. Heck, this computer doesn’t even have a restoration partition. I eventually managed to restore the DLLs by asking others to send them to me.

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