how to fix bootres.dll is corrupt in windows 10

Hello, I had the same issue since yesterday and I just fixed I don't know why and how it works. (I'm french and I found the names of the options in english on howtogeek there will not have comprehension issues I hope) So, when you are in the Recovery screen, you select "See advanced repair options",  then you have 3 options:

• Continue
• Troubleshoot
• Turn off your PC

You select the second option and you select again the second choice "Advanced options". Then you have 6 options, one of them is "Startup Settings" you select it and reboot the computer. Then you have 9 options, and we need and the seventh option "Disable driver signature enforcement". Windows will load but it took me something like 5 minutes. It was reaaaaaly slow but my computer booted. The only thing left is that I don't know if 10 will still boot if we restart the computer.

I had the same problem, probably after an update .... This last solution seemed to work. The driver signature enforcement mentioned above did not work for me, so I tried disabling the virus definitions (another option), also no luck, and finally booted into safe mode with networking (another option), and windows then gave me the message that something had gone wrong with an update, and it was uninstalling it. ...My PC now boots again!

I used your chkdsk command on the D partition and my computer now boots every time without error. Thank you for the advice. I found the bootres.dll only on the D partition.

I did the chkdsk command with the D drive and it seemed to fix the problem after a lengthly repair process.

(1) What do you mean you deleted the corrupt bootres.dll file? From where?

(2) Can you boot to Win 10 the way Trevor Seward (MVP) did in here...?...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/bootresdll-issue-partially-preventing-boot/c3d6ad5b-2d5f-41d7-8fe9-ab2aff809a2c

bootres.dll Issue Partially Preventing Boot

He said, "If I shutdown the machine while Windows attempts to boot (black screen, no logo), then power it back on, it boots successfully." If so, make your backups. Also, create Win 10 Installation media from here...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Download Windows 10

As the site says, match it to your Edition (Pro, Home, etc.), Architecture (64-bit/x64 or 32-bit/x86) & Language of the computer on which it will be used. But that should autofill correctly when making the media using the computer in question.

(3)  BTW, Trevor's ultimate solution was to upgrade his BIOS. Your current version shows in MSInfo32 (ask Cortana). Go to the site of your computer manufacturer (BING your System Model also in MSInfo32) to see whether there is one for you.

(4) If (3) fails for you, I want to say Surveillance-NC posted the cure above in this thread. But I'm scared off by others who said it didn't work or was even catastrophic. I wonder whether it was because they didn't identify the correct letter for the Windows partition. It isn't necessarily C: in the recovery environment. Well...

Try to Regenerate your boot files. Here is how to do it in a UEFI system. This may be done from within Windows, actually. If doing it from within the Recovery Environment -- ie., "Choose an Option > Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Command Prompt" -- ensure the Windows partition is still C: in that environment. If not, use the letter you see in a List Vol...

If you've got more than one letter, Identify your Windows partition by its label, size & that it says "Boot" in the Info column. Note its letter. Your System partition will be FAT32 & says "System" under Info. Note its volume number.

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Edit 11/4/18: When at the Command Prompt of the Recovery Environment (i.e., not booted to Windows), the Info column shows nothing for the Windows partition. And it shows "Hidden" for the System partition...

Volume ###  Ltr  Label          Fs          Type          Size        Status     Info

  ----------     ---  -----------  -------   ----------  ---------  ---------  --------

  Volume 2     C    PCR Hard  NTFS     Partition    930 GB   Healthy

  Volume 3                             FAT32    Partition   100 MB   Healthy  Hidden

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So - for me, it would go like this...

DiskPart

Sel  Vol  4                                             << My System volume

Assign  Letter=S                                   << Give it letter S:

Exit                                                       << Leave DiskPart

B****CDBoot  C:\windows  /s  S:  /f  UEFI   << That fills the System partition (S:) with a new set of boot files

                                                                        from the Windows partition (C:).

DiskPart

Sel  Vol  4

Remove  Letter=S                                 << Remove the letter S:

Exit

Note: If you know the UEFI/BIOS to be set to boot in Legacy Mode, then use "/f BIOS" instead of "/f UEFI". If you don't know how it is set, use "/f ALL".

I've omitted the Format command, in case BCDBoot fails to work. BCDBoot will overwrite what is in there anyway.

I am also having the same problem.  I was able to delete the corrupt boot.dll file, although srttrail.txt still shows it s being corrupt - but it is not in the root directory.

I don't know if I've messed anything up, but I have tried most of the solutions here and am not able to solve it at all.  I also do not have a bootable image of Windows 10 (or any type of reinstallation media).  I was able to pull some data off, but am at risk of losing a bunch of e-mails which are in specific folders.  I tried accessing Outlook by accessing the drive by booting with my old drive (Windows 7) and using Explorer to try and open Outlook - but all I got was errors.  I was able to open another Outlook Window and get the last 1100 e-mails, but am still missing many important e-mails. (ugh). 

So this is a multi-fold question.  Is there any hope to get beyond the "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC" or "is there a way to create a bootable disk for WIN 10 by going directly to the windows file in Explorer? or

"Is there a way to open Outlook from the Explorer file" (all I get is an error).

So frustrating as it seems this is a result of the latest updates from Microsoft.

Any and all help is appreciated.