It’s ben so long, whole days have gone by !, since my last computer problem but here we are again…the saga continues. This time it looks to be an IE issue (have to use it sometimes).
The errorr I get concerns a problem with ” Kernal 32.DLL”…I think that’s an IE related error. It causes the dreaded blue screen-fatal exception combo to pop up and from their it’s curtains.
My question is this: Is it OK to just reload IE5 over the top of what’s already there and will that resolve the problem given that I’ll use a differnet disc to load it in.
Also, aside from ‘Favorites’ is there anything else I need to be mindful of when doing this ?
having reinstalled win95/98, IE etc a great many times now I can tell you every time I seem to get different glitches and it is mainly a matter of luck. My philosophy these days is:
Try to live with the problem if it is not too bad. It will go away (I hope) with the next general installation. In the measure that it is frequent or annoying I will decide to do my next clean installation sooner.
Once things get unstable enough and there are new versions out there of software I wil do a clean install of everything beginning with WINDOWS and then all software.
I’d say I have had very limited luck doing partial reinstallations of software and in some cases things just got worse.
Hving said that, if you think it is IE causing the fault, you can try to reinstall just IE and see if the problem goes away. As I say, I believe it is a matter of chance. Photodeluxe used to cause crasshes during one of my installations and has never done it ever since.
Kernel32.dll errors can come from all kinds of places. I used to get them as a result of a crappy motherboard (avoid the Intel CC820 at all costs). Re-installing IE would be a good first step. If you can write down teh exact error, you might be able to do a search on Microsoft’s knowledge base, which is off the main microsoft.com site, and get a resolution. Their knowledge base isn’t normally all that helpfull though.
Yes, reinstalling IE would help. But, before you reinstall it, do a search for all your *.tmp files, and delete them. Generally, with any kind of general protection fault (such as the kernel32.dll error), the files contained within the temp files could be causing the error.
There’s an easy way to fix it without losing anything. Go to add/remove programs and select IE, a dialog will come up that gives three options. Select “Repair IE”. That should solve a lot of problems.
Sailor Yeah, share your philosophy. You can easily get resigned to just accepting the problems…. this one’s getting to the stage where I’ve got to deal with it.
handy Thanks for showing up, again. Seems like you’re saying more memory is probably the answer. Think I might start a thread on Monday about the thing Demo’s mentioned. Not heard of this, it’s rated by ZNet and some others so it’s tempting - I’ll see if anyone else has tried it.
Demo Thanks for that link to Rambooster – looks like it is the move to make if limited memory is the problem. Going to see if anyone else has used it.
I’ve been messing around with Graphic’s programmes lately and suspect that might be part of the story. I’m thinking the sooner I grasp the nettle and just go the whole route of more memory, Partition Magic, Linux and a dual boot the better.
London, its not more memory its that certain areas of memory got reservations on them. You can see what programs are using what memory. When you get that message, look at details, youll see what area of the memory the program was trying to access. Then you’d have to open your system configuration & find out what program is using that memory area. Then you can do something.
I know this because I went thru the same thing but it all settled down by itself before i needed to see what memory areas were being used.
Are you really in London? Anywhwere near Grange road?