The Procedure Entry Point Could Not Be Located Kernel32.dll

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Adah Orhenkowski

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Aug 3, 2024, 12:54:10 PM8/3/24

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Hi everyone! I use windows 7 64-bit, and when I try to install an app (for example WhatsApp), I get this error: Kernel32.dll entry not point error. The procedure entry point SetDefaultdllDirectories could not be located kernel32.dll. What am I doing now?

What is Kernel32.dll? It is an important DLL file in the Microsoft Windows system. As a Windows KT Base API Client DLL file, the real kernel32 dll file is a 32-bit dynamic link library file used by the Windows system to manage system memory, interrupts, input/output operations, synchronization, and process.

What causes the entry point not found kernel32.dll Windows XP error? As the error message suggested, the error is often related to a corrupted or missing kernel32.dll file. To be specific, virus infection, power outage, hard drive errors, corrupted system files, and outdated device drivers can cause the kernel32 dll missing error.

In addition, you can try replacing the corrupted kernel32.dll with a new one via Microsoft Windows setup CD/DVD. If you have a Windows installation media, you can follow the steps below to recover the dll file.

Step 2. Type the sfc /scannow command in the elevated command prompt and hit Enter. After that, the SFC tool will scan and try to repair the corrupted system files automatically.

Step 2. You will receive a message saying Check your computer for memory problems. Here are 2 options for you to perform a RAM test. It is recommended that you click Restart now and check for problems.

Step 3. Then your computer will restart and Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool will automatically perform the RAM test. This process may take you some time. You can see the overall test status bar and the detected problems during this process.

If none of the above methods fix the entry point not found kernel32 dll Windows XP/7/8/10 error, you may need to perform a clean installation of Windows. By doing so, your system will revert to its original status, which can clear the kernel32.dll.error.

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This is probably more likely a problem with my operating system, Windows XP, SP2, than CCleaner. I just installed the latest version 5.4 over an older version, 3.01, which was working fine. But when I try to start the new version I get the following error message: "The procedure entry point GetLogicalProcessorInformation could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll". I suspect this is because it was expecting the SP3 KERNEL32.dll?

Since I am about to retire this PC in the near future, I don't want to install service pack 3 to find out if it will solve the problem (I am not even sure if pack 3 is still available). So, I would appreciate any suggestions on how I might get version 5.4 to work on SP2. I have yet to uninstall and reinstall v5.4 to see if it was a bad installation.

As a side note, the reason I wanted to upgrade CCleaner was because I read where the newer versions are capable of cleaning out Firefox cache2 entries which are now filling up my hard drive with gigabytes of content that I can't seem to get rid of by telling Firefox to clean out my cache.

I think I mislead you; it was many versions ago, not 5.40, that ccleaner required sp3. I don't know which version, but we have many XP (sp3) users here who are able to use even the latest version of ccleaner, maybe one of them might know the version.

Anyway, I had found a July 2014 web page that mentioned the latest CCleaner version was capable of cleaning cache2 in Firefox, so I went back in the archive at Filehippo and grabbed v4.16 and installed it. It also installed the Google Chrome browser, which I didn't ask for. But, v4.16 did run on my SP2 PC, and it finds the Firefox cache2 entries like I wanted it to.

I just updated the IDE to 2.2.0. Runs fine on my Windows 10 box, but Windows 7 gives me a "the procedure entry point getpackagefamilyname could not be located in the dynamic link library kernel32.dll".

You will now find that Arduino IDE periodically shows an "Update Available" dialog to offer you an update to the newer version of Arduino IDE. You must not accept these updates since the newer versions are not compatible with the vintage Windows versions.

The "Update Available" dialog contains a "SKIP VERSION" button. If you click that button, Arduino IDE will no longer show the dialog for the specific newer version being offered at the time you click the button.

The dialog will appear once again each time Arduino releases a new version of Arduino IDE, so you will need to click the button again after each release. That is slightly inconvenient, but the release cycle is fairly long so I don't think it will be very burdensome.

It is possible to completely disable the offers of updates in the Arduino IDE advanced settings. The downside is this setting also disables offers of updates for your installed boards platforms and libraries.

If you chose this method, make sure to periodically check to see if newer versions of your installed boards platforms and libraries are available. You can do this by opening Boards Manager and then setting the "Type" menu to "Updatable", then repeating the process with Library Manager.

The initial problem: When I print from Firefox (current version) to the Adobe PDF driver that's part of Acrobat Pro, the results are garbled. If I send the output to a printer, no problem, so it seems like it's in the Acrobat software.

I looked that up here and got directions for directly downloading Adobe Application Manager 10.0. Downloaded and installed the program, but when it runs, I get a new error message: "The procedure entry point CreateSymbolicLinkW could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.DLL." That message is not found in the Adobe forums.

Over to Microsoft. Found directions to copy KERNEL32.DLL from the Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder -- which requires jumping through some hoops as the DLL file is open (and locked) when Windows is running. Swapping the DLL file did not fix the problem.

Found another entry in the Adobe forums telling me to download Creative Cloud Cleaner and use it to delete Application Manager (which I did by telling the Cleaner I wanted to clean up the "Creative Cloud" files). The cleaner said it had completed, but the PDapp files were still on the system. The same forum topic told me to delete the OOBE folder and then run the Application Manager install program. I did. Ended up with a new copy of the same file I had -- and the same error message.

More information. After rebooting (which the Acrobat repair action said I needed to do), I was able to use the "update Acrobat" icon in the system tray. It downloaded and successfully installed the latest version of Acrobat XI. So that's one step forward. However, Acrobat itself popped up an error message window. This one had a window title of "adobe_licutil.exe - Entry Point Not Found" and the text of the error message was as above: "The procedure entry point CreateSymbolicLinkW could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll."

OC Photoworx what version of Acrobat are you attempting to utilize on Windows XP? Is everything else on Windows XP running normally? What is preventing you from updating the operating system to a version which is still receiving security updates?

Adobe stopped supporting XP, and the later releases of XP will not run on XP; much the same seems to have affected the application manager which is trying to use something only found in Vista. You may well have tried to update when you were already running the final version for XP (bugs an' all).

OC Photoworx the appropriate version of the Adobe Application Manager will be installed when you reinstall Acrobat XI Professional. Please use the Programs and Features control panel to remove your current installation of Adobe Acrobat Pro XI on Windows XP.

I used Control Panel to uninstall the three entries I found for Acrobat: Acrobat X Pro and two entries (one small, one large) for Acrobat XI Pro. I then downloaded the Acrobat 11 Pro file from the page you cited and installed it.

The program works, but it was working before. The first time I launched it, I got the error message window entitled "adobe_licutil.exe - Entry Point Not Found" and the error message "The procedure entry point CreateSymbolicLinkW could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll."

And now for more strangeness. What you see above is from a screen capture of the pdf (created by the print function) opened in Acrobat XI. If I select those same characters and paste them to this message as text, here's what I get:

That, to me, says it's a codepage or symbol set issue. If I paste the copied text from the clipboard to Notepad, I get plain text (albeit with the extra spaces in "m edia," "replacem ent" and so on). If I paste it to Word for Windows, I get text with different sizes and colors; it's still not the same as the original webpage, but "Acrobat DC or CC subscription" is larger and the links are in blue (although they are not actually clickable links). If I paste it to Illustrator CS6, I get the text and line breaks (and extra spaces), but in my default Illustrator typeface.

I don't see anything in Firefox or Acrobat that lets me control the codepage or symbol set. Moreover, if I select text from that web page in Firefox then copy and paste it directly into Word for Windows, I get a near-exact duplicate of the web page: The fonts are changed, but the sizes are the same, the paragraphs are spaced and bulleted correctly -- and the links have been converted to clickable hyperlinks. That tells me there's nothing funky, in general, with how Firefox is displaying the web pages.