unable to boot XP because of message "ordinal not found"

[Chris Carr]

Today I had to do a normal shut down of my computer.
When I turned it back on, I was prompted to enter a
password, which has never happened (I have never set up
the computer to ask for a password). I clicked on
cancel and the computer proceeded to load. However, very
quickly after clicking "cancel", I received the following
error message:

"explorer.exe-ordinal not found

the ordinal 7 could not be located in the dynamic link
library OLEAUT32.dll"

This happens now every time I reboot the computer. I
have tried safe mode, last good known configuration,
etc. Nothing works; I get the same error message
regardless of boot method.

Any ideas how to fix this? I can do nothing with my
computer until this problem is solved. I am using
Windows XP home edition.

Thanks-
Chris Carr

[Jose Francisco]

Greetings Chris,

I believe the best way is to reinstall Windows Xp Home Edition. Probably the
problem would be fixed.

I do recommend reinstalling Windows Xp!

Regards,
Jose Francisco

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"Chris Carr" > wrote in message
...
> Today I had to do a normal shut down of my computer.
> When I turned it back on, I was prompted to enter a
> password, which has never happened (I have never set up
> the computer to ask for a password). I clicked on
> cancel and the computer proceeded to load. However, very
> quickly after clicking "cancel", I received the following
> error message:
>
> "explorer.exe-ordinal not found
>
> the ordinal 7 could not be located in the dynamic link
> library OLEAUT32.dll"
>
> This happens now every time I reboot the computer. I
> have tried safe mode, last good known configuration,
> etc. Nothing works; I get the same error message
> regardless of boot method.
>
> Any ideas how to fix this? I can do nothing with my
> computer until this problem is solved. I am using
> Windows XP home edition.
>
> Thanks-
> Chris Carr