Hi Emie, I just found this today. It may be of help to you and others. Appears to be a very good Windows help site. http://aumha.org/a/k32fix.htm Brad Loomis Los Angeles, CA -----Original Message----- Emie writes: <<I have a friend whose computer is slowly heading South. An error message which used to be intermitent is now becoming persistent. The error addresses the "kernel32.dll" (I'm sorry I don't have the full description of the error message) and has constantly popped up since then.>> PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml