Attention: WinME users

Nemephosis · Sep 29, 2001

I need someone's help who uses winme.

Sometimes when I close Internet Explorer I get an error: Iexplore has caused an error in KERNEL32.DLL. Iexplore will now close.

If this problem persists, try restarting your computer.

Only problem is, I click OK and it comes up again. And won't go away.

So I have to hard-reset, ie. power off the computer with the switch in the back, then power on again.

Of course Zonealarm is temperamental about that and disables the "truevector" whatchamajiggie so then THAT doesn't work and I have to restart through the start menu. (the normal way)

My feeling is it's a damaged KERNEL32.DLL somehow.

I was hoping someone, a WinME user, would upload a copy of their KERNEL32.DLL file so I can see if this problem persists. Yes I will back up mine of course.

Thanks

BlAcK_PlAgUe22 · Sep 29, 2001

Yeah, WinME really blows

. I have it and i always get the BSOD on shutdown (forgot the actual message, just said to restart).

What version of IE do you have? Get 6.0 if you havent, that may solve the problem

BlAcK_PlAgUe22 · Sep 29, 2001

Do'h! forgot to upload it

Here it is, zipped @ 256k.

Nemephosis · Sep 29, 2001

Actually I'm quite happy with WinME, I just don't like the KERNEL32.DLL bullshit.

I heard IE6 has some kind of picture-auto-resizing feature to make it fit in a window or something and it distorts the picture or something. If you can disable that though I might go for it.

Where can I get a new IE short of microsoft.com? that site (surprise!) doesn't load for me.

[edit]manners, manners! Thank you for the file I'll try it out.

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the~oreca · Sep 29, 2001

Sorry nem, can't help ya there, never got that problem with WinMe.
As people tend to bash it I really like WinMe.
The other day when I was sick I stayed on it for 11 hours without crashing. I had to go to bed after that

BlAcK_PlAgUe22 · Sep 29, 2001

Yeah, it has a pic resizer, so you can see all of it on the screen at once. Yes, you can disable it (like i did :))

go to start/settings/control panel/internet options

Select advanced, then scroll down to multimedia. Uncheck the box that says "Enable automatic image resizing"

SimplyCosmic · Sep 29, 2001

Actually I'm quite happy with WinME, I just don't like the KERNEL32.DLL bull****

The KERNEL32.DLL is the operating system's kernel, which is the very heart of the OS. So, you're having deep rooted problems there.

Nemephosis · Sep 29, 2001

Do you know what it could be? and how to fix it short of dragging the computer in for repairs?

BlAcK_PlAgUe22 · Sep 29, 2001

Solution: Get Opera

Nemephosis · Sep 29, 2001

what's that? Never heard of it.

BlAcK_PlAgUe22 · Sep 29, 2001

Free browser. Has some neat features. uh.. i think the website is www.opera.com. Try it out, its only 9mb with java included

Sir Robin · Sep 29, 2001

fdisk will fix it.

Nemephosis · Sep 29, 2001

I've heard of fdisk but don't completely know what it is.

Please if you have info, lemme know. I don't wanna be bringing in my practically-brand-new computer for repairs I can't afford.

[edit]you bi0tch robin, someone in IRC told me what it is. *smack*

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thewalkingman · Sep 29, 2001

What you have never rebooted windows before?

2.3 times daily here....

Shutup SC!!!

Is it just with IE?

then uninstall defrag and reinstall.
It may be a plugin that is bad..

SimplyCosmic · Sep 30, 2001

Daily reboots? Yikes.

The OpenBSD firewall only gets rebooted to upgrade the operating system once every three months, the Linux box generally goes for over a month, even the Windows XP box goes for about week in between reboots.

As for running a different browser, while it may solve some of the crashes, you're still going to get the same problem in the end.

You might want to search through Microsoft's Knowledge Base for an answer.

Super Feen · Sep 30, 2001

hey nemo, did reaplacing the kernel32.dll work? I'm runnin winme and get that very same problem, I just don't want to go replacing stuff if it's not gonna work

Lyndsay #2337 · Sep 30, 2001

I've have similar problems with KERNEL32.DLL in 98SE and WinME, when closing or opening programs, and other events. After a month or so windws tends to degrade. A re-install seems to be the only solution.

Thrakhath · Sep 30, 2001

One thing you might want to try is to stick in the ME install CD, boot from it if you can and select to repair the existing install. I'll automatically replace bad DLLs and stuff. Works pretty good most of the time and I've never had it kill the system if it dosen't work.

hal · Sep 30, 2001

I believe the program that will do what Thrakath is suggesting is sfc (system file checker). Just try Start>Run then type "sfc" (no quotes). It checks and replaces altered files, or you can just replace a single file from the Me disc.

DeaJae · Sep 30, 2001

weird, i used to get the non stop kernel32.dll crashes non stop in win98 but not in ME.

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