How to fix sysmenu.dll error after Windows 8.1 upgrade

You may have come across of the many DLL errors while upgrading the PC operating system from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. One of the most common errors is:

"C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\System\sysmenu.dll The specified module could not be found". Here are some of the simple steps to completely get rid of this type of Run DLL errors.

Steps for fixing sysmenu.dll errorafter Windows 8.1 upgrade:

Step 1: Firstly you need to download Autoruns.

Step 2: Then you need to open the downloaded file and run the autoruns.exe from the file.

Step 3: Once the scanning is finished you need to go to the Scheduled Tasks tab from the given tabs.

Step 4: Then in the "Scheduled Tasks" find the yellow highlighted image paths that ends with sysmenu.dll. Once you get them you need to right click and delete them.

Step 5: Similarly you need to find the yellow highlighted image paths that ends with sysmenu.dll in "Everything" tab and then delete them. If it is not there in “Everything” tab then just ignore this step.

Note: when you will delete the image paths then please make sure that you are not deleting any other image paths or else there will be trouble while starting your PC.

Step 6: Now just you need to do it restart the computer and wait for five minutes. After waiting if you don’t find any sysmenu.dll errors then you have successfully removed the errors.

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