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I have been getting a lot of error messages regarding to KERNEL32.DLL. Right after the PC has loaded and starting the Windows User Interface I get a error message stating the SAGE.EXE file is linked to missing export KERNEL32.DLL, so I press OK (twice) to get rid of the message. I also get error messages when opening Microsoft Word 7.0, Winamp and other programs (Fortunately my Internet Explorer still works). For Word, the error message would say WINWORD.EXE file is linked to missing export KERNEL32.DLL(there's some weird symbols after this), and then say: A device attached to the system is not functioning. The only option I have is to click OK, but then nothing happens and I can't open Word. Winamp and some other programs states similar errors. For some reason, the symbols after the KERNEL32.DLL messages changes every time I try opening it. For example:
WINWORD.EXE file is linked to missing export KERNEL32.DLL||`||||ué||
and next time I try open it, it would have different symbols.
I have tried running scandisk and defragmenting the hard drive but it would keep restarting itself. So I went into safemode and it still kept restarting, but it restarted less and was able to finish its process. There were no errors and I tried to see if the hardware devices were working in the Device Manager and all the devices said it was working properly. I was very low on hard drive disk space before but I cleared it up and still I get errors. The two things that I think is causing this problem is either my hard drive is breaking down or I have a virus in my PC. The reason why I think my hard drive is breaking down is because I have been using for 7 years now. This makes sense because I have been using it for quite awhile. I have also downloaded a .exe file from friend a day before this happened, so it might be a virus, but wouldn't all my other friends get this virus as well? All my other friends downloaded the same .exe file from the same friend I downloaded from and they did not have any errors or problems. This wouldn't make sense if this error problem would only occur to me. I have not done a virus scan yet since I don't have one, but I will try get one as soon as possible. Please try you best to help my find the main problem for these KERNEL32.DLL errors. Please email me back, thank you very much.
