Kernel32.DLL Error please help

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Try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers and software for your HP
printer or scanner.

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"Ishmail" <ishmailATmontanadslDOTnet> wrote in message
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> My daughter deleted some quarantined viruses and on her college computer,
> a 450Mhz dinosaur that has all her school papers in the documents folder.
> When the computer boots up it now says two error messages:
>
> Hposm has caused an error in OLEATU32.DLL
>
> and
>
> Hposm has caused an error in Kernel32.DLL
>
> Internet expolorer will not open, in fact I have yet to find any program
> that will. I tried starting in normal and safe mode to do a system
> restore but system restore locks up also. I'm not too good at this and
> any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Todd
>

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Thanks Richard, I'll try that. I think you are on to something here as my
wife just attempted to use an HP printer scanner for the first time.

Todd

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsme.general (More info?)

The HPOSM.EXE file is part of many HP scanner/printer drivers, so I'll bet
that it (or a file it needs) somehow got corrupted when cleaning up the
virus.

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"Ishmail" <ishmailATmontanadslDOTnet> wrote in message
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> Thanks Richard, I'll try that. I think you are on to something here as
> my wife just attempted to use an HP printer scanner for the first time.
>
> Todd
>
>
>