The procedure entry point GetIUMS could not be located

[DanielJG]

Hey ... how can I say 'eternally grateful' over the Internet ... after spending most of the night and today (now 14.00 in France) ... I read yr mgs and 'had a cuppa' came back ... rebooted and .. Bob's your Uncle XP was back and running.
THANKYOU ... thought I was going to have get the pro's involved.

[confus-ed]

As a btw there's variations of this too with different entry point info & running a repair, & its to do with incorrect file versions again, some times just note though there may be other causes, but don't investigate them until after your cuppa , as waiting doesn't always work but will in most cases {pressing 'yes' a zillion times [which gets mentioned on the net lots]is like waiting too} as I discovered having read every damn thread on the internet about it, when it happened to me

In my case the 'other' cause was a boot sector virus.