I Can't Do The Read Me First Thread, Computer Won't Let Me.

Dear Geek-team.

I clicked on your link to AdwCleaner and downloaded it from Bleeping Computer, where the link took me. When I tried installing it, I got..."This application has failed to start because dwmapi.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

I don't know what dwmapi.dll IS and as I can't attach the AdwCleaner logs, you're not gonna want to help me, are you? No chance at all you could tell me what dwmapi.dll is, how to re-install it (I don't want to have to reinstall Windows and lose everything I've worked on for ages, don't have a massive backup disc to use ATM) I've tried reinstalling ADWcleaner like it suggests but I hit that error message every time.

What do I do now? Please don't give up on me because I can't attach the logs because the software won't run.

I'm using XP SP3 on a Foxconn 1 Motherboard.

Yours hopefully

Chris.