Procedure entry point ReinitializeCriticalSection could not be located

[Lee]

"Procedure entry point ReinitializeCriticalSection could
not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll"
is the warning I get when opening certain programs. When I
click on OK the programs open and work normally. I have
done searches of newsgroups and find (including from
Microsoft) the following answer for NT users many times,
but not once for XP users (I use XP Home). They say that a
program that was installed replaced the url.dll file with
an earlier version. They say to first go to your
Windows\System 32 folder and rename url.dll to url.old,
then go to the XP installation disk and find under the
i386 folder, url.dll, then "expand" that file to your
System 32 folder. First, is this the problem? I checked
the version of the url.dll file in my computer's system 32
folder and it is the same version as my Internet Explorer
(6.0.2800), so it sounds like that is the correct version
of url.dll in my machine and thus this may not be the
problem. Any ideas about other possible reasons for this?
FYI, I typed in Start - Run, SFC /scannow. The scan was
done and it did not ask me to put in the Windows disk nor
do anything else, so I assume that it found nothing, is
that correct?

I appreciate any help you can give me as I have searched
for many hours for a solution to no avail.

Lee

[Thorsten Matzner]

"Lee" > wrote:

>"Procedure entry point ReinitializeCriticalSection could
>not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll"
>is the warning I get when opening certain programs.

The problem may indeed be caused by an incompatible DLL file. The file
is older than the one that is expected, so it does not contain the
function that is called here.
Try the System File Checker, which can be started with
SFC /scannow
from Start > Run. If you think that the URL.DLL is causing this, you
can as well manually extract the file as you described it before you
try this.

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