I really hope someone can help with this, it's driving me nuts.

I'm running XP SP3. Earlier, I downloaded and installed vcredist x_86 2010. As soon as it finished installing I got error messages all over the place, the most persistent being "chrome.dll is not a valid windows image" and chrome would display the AW snap error message for every page. Tried using Internet Explorer and that wouldn't even start. So, I removed the installed file using add or remove programs in the control panel and restarted. Since then I've at least managed to use chrome, but it still keeps crashing occasionally and GIVING me the not a valid windows image message. Have I completely screwed my pc?

Any help will be appreciated!


EDIT: Since I 1st posted this, I've had a variety of error messages.

Chrome.exe - iphlpapi.dll not found
system32\dbghelp.dll not a valid windows image
chrome\application\8.0.555.2.00\locales\en-gb.dll not a valid windows image
system32\setupapi.dll not a valid windows image
dbghelp.dll not found
Chrome - application failed to initialize properly (0x0000142)
chrome.dll not a valid windows image
chrome - application failed to initialize properly (0x000012d)
system32\imm32.dl not a valid windows image
chrome - application failed to initialize properly (0x0000044)

Additional info about pc:
Hewlett Packard Compag Presario
AMD ATHLON 64 Processor
3500+
2.20GHz, 1.50GB RAM
Where was that app DLoaded from ? ?It was downloaded from Microsoft. I even double checked it after to make sure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84

Copied and pasted from my history.OK...just double checking...
Have you tried ti uninstall/re-install Chrome ?Reinstalled after my last post. No problems yet, but they come and go, so I'll have to wait a while before I know for sure.Good enough...
Best of Luck.I had so hoped that this was sorted, but I was wrong

Now flash keeps crashing and the whole browser seizes. When I tried to open task manager to kill it I got this message:

taskmgr.exe - this application failed to initialize properly (0xcoooo12d)

I had to log off my user profile to unfreeze it and when I did, INSTEAD of taking me to the usual page with all the users listed I had a login box on a black screen. When I logged back on I got this message:

daemon tools lite - Program requires at least Windows 2000 with SPTD 1.60 or higher. Kernel debugger must be deactivated.

This has me a little bit worried!

EDIT: chrome is crashing with the aw snap message again.If System Restore is enabled, you could try restoring your system, using a restore point created before you installed vcredist.Just tried system restore. It didn't seem to make any difference so I undid it. Any ideas? Please?

EDIT: Flash is working again (for now at least).You could try some of the suggestions mentioned here:
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95669
Hmmm.... not that I'm complaining, but the problem seems to have fixed itself Maybe it was doing a system restore? Well, thanks for the help anyway! HOPEFULLY I'm not going to get a couple of dozen error messages as soon as I post this