errors with my pc

i have a compaq presario 7478 pc i am not sure what took place but i got up 2
days ago and my pc had problems i seem to have lost just about everything
including my scandisk and diskdefragmenter. i have tried to restore my pc
with no success i have gone into safe mode and tried to restore to an earlier
time. i keep getting messages like error inStngr in WINTRUST.DLL and nothing
but internet explorer will operate correctly i need help and advice on how to
remedy this situation. thank you

The error "stmgr has caused in error in WINTRUST.DLL" is relatively
unusual however a fix is known for this problem but this isn't going to
fix your other problems such as the loss of scandisk and defrag and the
inability to run any program other than Internet Explorer. Even if I were
to lead you through the quite lengthy procedure to fix the stmgr/wintrust
error there is no guarantee that you would have any usable system restore
checkpoints or that one of these would restore the missing files.

What worries me somewhat is your statement that you are not sure of what
took place as having some idea of the origin of the problem might help
establish whether it is worth the time and efforts in repairing the system
or whether it might be better to bite the bullet and reinstall the
operating system and restore it to the state it was in when the machine
was first purchased.

Regardless of how you/we proceed I would suggest that you start to try and
move any valuable data such as documents, spreadsheets, photographs,
music, e-mail messages, saved passwords, etc. to backup or another PC.
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby RemoveThis @gmail.com


big problems <big problems RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> i have a compaq presario 7478 pc i am not sure what took place but i
> got up 2 days ago and my pc had problems i seem to have lost just
> about everything including my scandisk and diskdefragmenter. i have
> tried to restore my pc with no success i have gone into safe mode and
> tried to restore to an earlier time. i keep getting messages like
> error inStngr in WINTRUST.DLL and nothing but internet explorer will
> operate correctly i need help and advice on how to remedy this
> situation. thank you