Viv

Ed,
Thanks for the suggestion, did you mean Accessories/Command Prompt? If so
then I get the message 'You must be an administrator running a console
session in order to use the sfc utility', which I don't understand.

Typing 'sfc /scannow' in Accessories/Run does not do anything, not even tell
me that I am doing something wrong.

Any further advice would be welcome.

Viv

"Ed O'Brien" wrote:

> It looks like the file COMCTL32.dll may have become corrupted. I suggest you
> try running a system scan. Open the Command Prompt (Start//All
> programs//Acccessories) and type sfc /scannow (note the space after sfc). If
> the file has been damaged, Windows can repair it. If this doesn't work, try
> a System Restore. If neither work, just hope a MSVP spots your dilemma.
>
> Ed
>
>
> "Viv" <Viv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E73BCD01-4F81-4B2B-AF42-58B8E471BFC4@microsoft.com...
> >I had an unexpected shut down due to a disk error this morning and now when
> >I
> > try to open task manager I get the uninformative message :-
> > taskmgr.exe - Ordinal Not Found
> > The ordinal 345 could not be located in the dynamic link library
> > COMCTL32.dll.
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to correct this problem would be welcome.
>
>