re: Explorer.exe : Illegal Operation
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 11:45 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Sudhindra wrote:
|Explorer has performed an illegal operation
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Well, you *are* using Windoze; it *could* simply be an infection.
What steps do you take to protect yourself against that?
(I recommend Linux, aka The Final Solution to Windoze Infections;
it is available for FREE.)[1]
Have you assumed that you are infected and proceeded accordingly?
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1152820184
NOTE: The URL of any link which don't give a readable page
can be cut and pasted into the Address Bar of a blank browser page.
It could be broken software:
As Matt said, using SCANREG/RESTORE
will try to use a previous copy of your Windoze Registry.
This is the first-eschelon fix for almost *ANY* Win9x breakage.
More software-related ideas:
cache
of http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-002
(Run Scandisk, first thing.)
cache
of http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1033813336
from the Usenet Archive -- invalid-page-fault+Explorer.exe
...or it could be bad RAM:
cache
of http://www.digital-handyman.com/ftp/Memtest86%2520-%2520Memory%2520Diagnostic%2520Page.txt
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1180061&cid=27384829
As a rule, you shouldn't t be in a hurry with this test;
I recommend letting MemTest86 run overnight.
Note also where that guy said "a few days".
In your case, if RAM is the problem, the software should flag it immediately.
cache
of http://www.memtest86.com/download.html
[1] Booting to a Linux distribution disk (aka a boot-to-a-desktop CD)
can also check your hardware, thereby bypassing any M$-related breakage.
Running programs from the CD until you use up all your memory
may even be a more useful test than MemTest86
(which also *comes* on many Linux CDs).
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