Um yeah... OOPS

**Mes Tarrant** · 05-16-2009 11:14 AM

I was trying to uninstall a bunch of useless programs, and I must have gotten rid of something important because suddenly when I try to open firefox and vlc (and prob other things among that...) I get the following message:

"This application has failed to start because C:\WINDOWS\system32\wxvault.dll" was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

UGH I'm an idiot. What do I do now?

**Sandform** · 05-16-2009 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

I was trying to uninstall a bunch of useless programs, and I must have gotten rid of something important because suddenly when I try to open firefox and vlc (and prob other things among that...) I get the following message:

"This application has failed to start because C:\WINDOWS\system32\wxvault.dll" was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

UGH I'm an idiot. What do I do now?

I'm not really sure what I'm talking about, I'm not really a techie, but I Googled it and found something that I think may help.

Originally Posted by DJMalik

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=165923 quick fix to this is go to C:\Windows\system32 and all the way at the bottome there is an .ini file named wxvault1.dll, simply rename this file by deleting the number 1 out of it. Now everything should be working just fine. Let me know if this worked for you.

**Mes Tarrant** · 05-16-2009 11:31 AM

Oh wow.. thanks! Ha.. perhaps I should try this google thing myself sometime.. ahem.

But before I saw that post I just restarted my computer and now it magically works fine. UGH. I'm still pretty sure I uninstalled something important.. hmm..

**Marvo** · 05-16-2009 12:21 PM

Not neccessarily. Could be a program with a fishy uninstallation process. Restarting Windows is always a good thing to do, before you try to troubleshoot a problem.

**Sandform** · 05-16-2009 01:41 PM

From what I've read online it seems to be related to the Embassy Security Suite. It is apparently standard for some computers, or at least was at one time, particularly Dell computers.

**Mes Tarrant** · 05-16-2009 01:50 PM

^^ Yep that's the thing that I uninstalled! Oi.

I wonder if I should just do a system restore to yesterday so I could get it back. I'm not sure what it is. My programs list told me I used it "rarely," so I thought it was safe to get rid of it. I couldn't find the installation file to reinstall it.