After Norton Power Tool cannot boot normally

Some review sites and forums recommended Norton Cleaner NPE and I stupidly downloaded it to catch any last traces of malware that no longer showed up in Malwarebytes, Superantispyware, McAfee. Now I get the black screen when I try to access Windows. Message is: windows could not open corrupt or damaged file Windows root\system 32\hal.dll. In these forums I read that Norton has conflicts, also error announcements and boot options occur when software is installed that results in corrupting Windows OS files (that is a rough quote) the good news is that it is not fatal and F8 gets me in. I am not a tech - but does anyone have an easy solution (I can hear you laughing). I may just live with the annoyance but would like reassurance that it won't kill me at least until I upgrade from XP. Thanks.

You are already receiving assistance in another Topic Thread, here; http://forums.whatthetech.com/index.php?sh…=123666&hl=

I will therefore CLOSE this Topic, so that confusing double-post and/or conflicting instructions do not compromise your successful resolution of your stated problem.

Please feel free to continue your work in the other Topic.

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