Start button causes general protection fault Monday, January 2, 2006 at 4:09 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by mick (305 messages posted) Hi, Just recently my computer gives an error message "Explorer caused a general protection fault in module every time that I click on the 'Start' button. It then closes down explorer and I have to reboot using ctl alt delete. Everything is then fine again until I click on the start button when the same thing happens again. I tried it in the safe mode and there were no problems when clicking on the start button so I went into config.sys and disabled all the programs except Explorer and systray and scanreg. On rebooting everything was fine ie no problems on clicking the start button. I eventually found that the problem was a start up file called filescan which in config.sys was showing a blank space against the program it should run. Does anybody know if the 'filescan' program is important and what is the program it should run and what does it do?. I have had 'filescan' in my start up programs for years. regards Mike Responses to this message: re: Start button causes general protection fault (Rami Taher Wahdan: Monday, January 2, 2006 at 8:15 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Start button causes general protection fault (mick: Mon, Jan 2, 2006, 4:09 am) re: Start button causes general protection fault (Rami Taher Wahdan: Mon, Jan 2, 2006, 8:15 am) re: Start button causes general protection fault (mick: Mon, Jan 2, 2006, 1:54 pm) re: Start button causes general protection fault (Rami Taher Wahdan: Mon, Jan 2, 2006, 9:46 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