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Dll Intialization Failed

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by psible

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On one of my users workstation (NT) I am getting an error message that will go away if user clicks ok. This error only happens when their machine has been inactive for 5mins and their screen saver kicks in and locks. Which means they must use the "CTRL ALT Delete" key to login again.

ERROR:
Initialization of the dynamic link library c:\winnt\system32\kernel.dll failed. The process is terminating abnormally.

What exactly does this mean? Whenever the user clicks 'ok' it lets them in the system

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by curlergirl

Sounds like a leaky or poorly designed screen saver to me. Are they using the basic Windows NT screen savers or something from a 3rd party? If it's the latter, I'd say disable the screen saver or change to a basic NT screen saver and see if that fixes the problem. I've even seen the basic NT screen savers cause similar problems with certain video cards, so you might have to disable it completely. Hope this helps!

by psible

We are using NT basic blank screen, screen saver. And it doesn't happen to the user all the time, just from time to time.

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