[ale] DO NOT DO WINDOWS UPDATE!

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:

> Just applied the latest security patches from windows update, the
> standard bookmark not one of the virus/worm emails etc as I do on a
> regular basis.  Now my windows 2000 desktop won't boot.  I get a nice
> blue screen that reads:
> 
> STOP:  c0000135 {Unable to Locate DLL}
> The dynamic link library basesrv could not be found in the specified
> path Default Load Path.
> 

That means that either your registry is corrupt (see, binary config
databases are a good idea ;-) or %SystemRoot%\system32\basesrv.dll is
missing / corrupted

The rescue console might be able to recover....

later,
chris