re: Start button causes general protection fault
Monday, January 2, 2006 at 8:15 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Rami Taher Wahdan
(474 messages posted)
Happy New Year
do u have RADFind 96 installed on ur computer? try looking for it using search and
see if you got it. if so uninstall it and then restart. this should be it.
God Bless
On Monday, January 2, 2006 at 4:09 am, mick wrote:
>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
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