golferguy Posted February 12, 2007 CID Share Posted February 12, 2007 Good morning all! Hope you had a good week! You know Windows, if it is not one thing, it is another............ My laptop was running perfectly yesterday, and then my firewall autom.updated in the background just like it always has and does............suddenly I got error that firewall had to shut down. It wouldn't connect.................all within a minute, it was taken away from me LOL.... I had just been there (the net) a minute ago! Uninstalled/reinstalled firewall, no diff. Tried a diff firewall. No diff. I went to Event Viewer to see what was the culprit. It said kernel32.dll I tried to re-register (regsvr32) and got that the DLLRegisterServer entry point was not found. All the restore points I made this last week were gone. Tried Safe Mode, nothing. My Network Connections say I have my usual speed and connection and all look fine, but won't connect to anything. I checked my hosts file, all looks fine for connecting to my usual Yahoo search engine. Tried sfc/scannow and it went thru without a burp perfectly, still nothing diff. Tried several combinations of above............still (sigh) nothing. Keep getting same error no matter which firewall and won't connect. So much to a fine start of a new wk! I had all these aspirations of having a new and fresh week to cleanup old work krap from last week..... YIKES Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 12, 2007 CID Share Posted February 12, 2007 Is it possible to put your OS disk in the cd drive > restart > boot from cd > repair .....? Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
golferguy Posted February 12, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 12, 2007 not without unloading/backing up all my data I just loaded, took about 5 hours of loading work docs I was sorting this week. Any other way around it? If not, anything else (docs setts) I should backup too....... If there is ANY other way, please let me know. Thx! Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 12, 2007 CID Share Posted February 12, 2007 You should be able to run the disk, and it will give you the option to "search for existing OS" By doing this, you should not have any data loss. Windows simply re-installs the windows files. I have done this before w/ no problems. Other than that unless you are registry savvy.................. You should always have a backup disk of your files This may help you http://www.5starsupport.com/info/kernel32.htm Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
golferguy Posted February 12, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 12, 2007 wellll......gulp.......... I'll do that tonight....if that is the only way and be back with results, thx ! Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 12, 2007 CID Share Posted February 12, 2007 let us know, how things turn out for you , but it seems there is a problem w/ a progrm you installed recently, that is trying to access the protected area of memory that the kern.dll in located !? I would say whatever the latest update that was installed by your system installed /chuck it otherwise Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjageek Posted February 13, 2007 CID Share Posted February 13, 2007 Maybe you can find it and reinstall it from here http://www.dll-files.com/ ? Hope that helps Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
golferguy Posted February 13, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 13, 2007 thanks all for the suggestions. I had shaky knees and shaky bladder just thinking about doing a repair install LOL I just HATE doing something I have never done before, because there are ALWAYS things they don't tell you Life is always like that. So! I had just been mentally ravaged trying to figure this out. I decided to clean out the registry after making sure the previous uninstall had taken for the problem firewall prog. Found two lil files just sitting there smiling at me. So I ripped them out of the puter LOL Then I rebooted. Everything is just fine now. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 13, 2007 CID Share Posted February 13, 2007 Very cool, were they bad boys, or just messed up files? Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
golferguy Posted February 13, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 13, 2007 sorry I didn't clarify just two of the firewalls old files ( a total of 80kb)...amazing that too lil guys that small together would stop my machine in its tracks!) Just soooooooo interesting to me! Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 13, 2007 CID Share Posted February 13, 2007 I hear that. Did you get a chance to read the link? Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
golferguy Posted February 13, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 13, 2007 yes I did, very informative and I really appreciate it! was just sitting down right now to do the memory test,etc. on that page. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 13, 2007 CID Share Posted February 13, 2007 try running this command from the command line.. start -> run type cmd press enter -> sfc.exe /scannow See if that returns anything. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
golferguy Posted February 13, 2007 Author CID Share Posted February 13, 2007 thanks so much Swimmer, check my initial post Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 14, 2007 CID Share Posted February 14, 2007 the failure to read it unbelievable haha.. well glad you tried it.. Quote Link to comment https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/17763-kernel32dll-problems-and-wont-connect/#findComment-207997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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