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Old 09-20-2007, 11:17 AM   #10
Hack&Lube
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Originally Posted by Bingo View Post
are they safe?

I thought I'd try one out, given to me by an office guy, and my XP went belly up the next day I fired my PC up. (HAL.DLL missing).

Managed to fix it through recovery, but is that the lay of the land for these things?

Are there safe torrents (executables to unwind them), or safer sources?

Thanks
HAL.dll going has nothing to do with torrents. There was a system error and your hardware abstraction layer was basically corrupted, probably a bad shutdown or a power outage or some memory failure or registry corruption. A missing HAL.dll at startup is a common problem amongst Windows users.

Last edited by Hack&Lube; 09-20-2007 at 11:19 AM.
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