re: explorer has performed illegal operation Wednesday, December 24, 2003 at 4:45 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by mark (1036 messages posted) If you can get to the startup menu by holding down the control key after you start up the computer, pick the "start with a command prompt" which is C:>. Then type in "Scanreg /restore" without the quotation marks and make sure there's a space after the "g". Then pick a previous date from among those indicated which would have been before you downloaded a program that caused this error message. On Wednesday, December 24, 2003 at 9:44 am, Adam Smith wrote: >a message: explorer has performed illegal operation and needs to be shut down, that >there is a fault at 017f:00401f31 . this appers at the startup screen after i >do or do not enter my network password and after it goes through the bootup screen. >if i click close then the screen stays black and windows or anything will not continue >to load. I think it has something to do with AOL 9.0 or maybe something to do with >my internet. i cannot get to my desktop so i cannot run anyprograms we had spyseeper >and norton antivirus on our computer and it did not find anything untill it just >stopped working (windows 98) > >please help me if u can thanks Written in response to: explorer has performed illegal operation (Adam Smith: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 at 9:44 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] explorer has performed illegal operation (Adam Smith: Wed, Dec 24, 2003, 9:44 am) re: explorer has performed illegal operation (mark: Wed, Dec 24, 2003, 4:45 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum