Solved Corrupted Windows

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I was messing with imageres.dll and shell32.dll and eventually those files got corrupted and now Windows wont start (blinking black screen). Ive fixed this other times it has happened from advanced options at boot with the Refresh your PC option except that this time I cant because I get the following error:

Additional free space is needed on the drive where Windows is installed. Free up some space and try again.

I tried Automatic Repair, but it doesnt recognize the problem. I also dont have any system restore point. Safe mode doesnt work.
Im thinking my last resource here is on the command prompt, which I can open from advanced options. I attempted

sfc /scannow

and got

Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service.

sfc /scannow /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windows

and it got stuck.

Im getting really nervous because I simply cant lose the files I have in this computer!!!

I was thinking maybe there is a command I can write on cmd that allows me to explore files among my documents and remove them so I can free some space and do the refresh option???
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
did you make backup of those 2 files: imageres.dll and shell32.dll before modifyfing them ?
If you did then boot into command prompt and copy them back.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brewed
    CPU
    I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
    Motherboard
    MSI-Z97
    Memory
    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual HP-W2408
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200
    Hard Drives
    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
    PSU
    Antec 850W
    Case
    Antec 1200
    Cooling
    Danger Den H20
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance Mouse MX
    Internet Speed
    35/12mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
Are you running 32 or 64 bit ?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brewed
    CPU
    I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
    Motherboard
    MSI-Z97
    Memory
    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual HP-W2408
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200
    Hard Drives
    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
    PSU
    Antec 850W
    Case
    Antec 1200
    Cooling
    Danger Den H20
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance Mouse MX
    Internet Speed
    35/12mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
64 bit.

Is there no way to explore folders from cmd? I have about 9GB of free space as of now, I can think of a file I can erase that will free about another 6... that would probably be enough to run Refresh.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
The space is not the problem and as you said, you knew the 2 files you modified were messed up so all you need is to replace these 2 files and try to reboot.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brewed
    CPU
    I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
    Motherboard
    MSI-Z97
    Memory
    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual HP-W2408
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200
    Hard Drives
    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
    PSU
    Antec 850W
    Case
    Antec 1200
    Cooling
    Danger Den H20
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance Mouse MX
    Internet Speed
    35/12mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
The problem though is that I have no access to the original imageres.dll and shell32.dll so I cant replace them.

And space was a problem because I couldnt use the Refresh your PC option due to low space on disk. And I said was because Im fixing the thing right now, what I did for anyone with the same issue is I ran Advanced options pressing Shift + F11 as the computer booted and from there I opened the Command Prompt and wrote:

RD /S /Q "Path of a folder you want to remove"

With that I removed a big folder I had and didnt need anymore and so I had enough space to run the Refresh your PC option from the Shift + F11 menu which is running right now and most probably will fix the issue.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
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