Windows wont start after installing AVG Antivirus 8

I installed AVG Antivirus 8 and it said it had installed successfully, but
then the computer shutdaown because it said there was a problem.
When I tried to start it up again it would not start windows. It eventually
comes up with a message that the hal.dll file in windows 32 is missing or
corrupted and to reinstal it.
I tried to start windows in safe mode and also the last known successful
starup but neither works.
I have tried to start with the windows cd to do a repair but I cant get it
to start from the cd either.
Please help..
Helen

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Sat May 10 04:56:54 PDT 2008

Helen wrote:
> I installed AVG Antivirus 8 and it said it had installed successfully, but
> then the computer shutdaown because it said there was a problem.
> When I tried to start it up again it would not start windows. It eventually
> comes up with a message that the hal.dll file in windows 32 is missing or
> corrupted and to reinstal it.
> I tried to start windows in safe mode and also the last known successful
> starup but neither works.
> I have tried to start with the windows cd to do a repair but I cant get it
> to start from the cd either.
> Please help..
> Helen
Do a google search for hal.dll, you can download it and put it back.
AVG may have found a virus in it and moved it or deleted it.



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Claude Hopper :)

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Sat May 10 04:59:33 PDT 2008

Helen wrote:
> I installed AVG Antivirus 8 and it said it had installed successfully, but
> then the computer shutdaown because it said there was a problem.
> When I tried to start it up again it would not start windows. It eventually
> comes up with a message that the hal.dll file in windows 32 is missing or
> corrupted and to reinstal it.
> I tried to start windows in safe mode and also the last known successful
> starup but neither works.
> I have tried to start with the windows cd to do a repair but I cant get it
> to start from the cd either.
> Please help..
> Helen

Also check out this MS fix.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314477

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Claude Hopper :)

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Mike
Sat May 10 09:11:45 PDT 2008

On Sat, 10 May 2008 00:57:00 -0700, Helen
<Helen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I installed AVG Antivirus 8 and it said it had installed successfully, but
>then the computer shutdaown because it said there was a problem.
>When I tried to start it up again it would not start windows. It eventually
>comes up with a message that the hal.dll file in windows 32 is missing or
>corrupted and to reinstal it.
>I tried to start windows in safe mode and also the last known successful
>starup but neither works.
>I have tried to start with the windows cd to do a repair but I cant get it
>to start from the cd either.
>Please help..
>Helen

I discovered my ASUS MB would not boot from a multi-drive (DVD-CD),
ONLY from a real CD only drive. That might explain your inability to
boot from your XP CD.

Mike