Just tried the comp again and it came up with a blue screen saying STOP: c0000221(bad image checksum) The image shell32.dll is possibly corrupt. any ideas

Run ChkDsk on it and go to windows update and update windows.

Do a windows repair. It might as well overwrite the corrupt File.

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