!! 0xc0190036 !! Vista Service Pack Error

The past couple of days I've been challenged with fixing an unresponsive notebook. I'd forgotten how stressful yet rewarding the process can be!

My recent technique for checking the health of a pc is to run the latest version of the Ubuntu Live CD, allowing me to retrieve data from the hard drive to portable devices before attempting repairs. This usually works well, but this time I was stymied. While the BIOS and the Live CD would see the hard drive, I was not able to mount it to read the data. Upon placing my trusty copy of the Vista install CD in the drive, the issue seemed to be repaired, and the system was restored. Upon further review of the system, I noticed that NO updates had been done, up to, and including Service Pack 2. Being a good tech, I ran the updates, and SP2 started installing normally.

As you can guess, all did not proceed well. The system finally hung on the error:

!! 0xc0190036 !! 4893/47063 (PresentationFramework.dll)

Google being my favorite troubleshooting tool, I did several searches, and finally found the link that this article ties to, a discussion on this issue, and the various possible remedies. What eventually worked for me was to boot once again with my trusty Vista install CD, go into advanced troubleshooting, and open the command prompt. Once there, I did a directory search using the '/s' subdirectory switch to find the offending file. Then I navigated to the directory, and renamed the file with a '.cpt' (my short form for corrupt) and restarted Windows normally. As the forum indicated, the SP2 installation was able to deal with a missing file, not a corrupt one, the update finished, and now all seems to be well. This seems to be a common issue with both SP1 and SP2 updates in Windows Vista. I'm not sure whether this has been resolved in 7 yet, but I'm publishing this in the hopes that others will be helped.

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  1. Ian17:02

    Thanks for posting this. I had the same problem on someone else's laptop but with ulib.dll

    A quick boot off the vista cd and a rename and Windows finished off installing SP2 on the next reboot.

    Cheers

    Ian

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  2. Stephen04:31

    Your very welcome. Glad it helped you out!

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