re: Windows 98 explorer grabs Word 2000 and Excel 97 application programs
Tuesday, June 12, 2001 at 2:46 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul D
(827 messages posted)
HP*.dll suggests it may be a problem with your printer drivers. Have you tried deleting/reinstalling
the printer?
On Tue, 12 Jun, 2001 - 13:05, Raj Sreenevasan wrote:
>Hi all,
>Currently we have a Dell desktop computer with an Adaptec Read / Write CD (in lieu
>of standard read only CD. This machine is connected to a HP Laserjet network printer
>(on a masterless peer-to-peer network) and is also used as the File server (to keep
>files in a central location).
>
>The operating system is Windows 98 (preloaded by Dell together with Works 2000 software
>i.e., Word 2000, Money 2000 etc.). We installed Excel97 and Jetadmin (HP Printer
>drivers) to this machine.
>
>We also have two other Dell machines with a similar setup (except that these machines
>have a standard read only CD). Whilst the two machines with standard CD have not
>given us any problems with Word 2000 or Excel 97 programs, the File server machine
>often closes the Word 2000 / Excel 97 programs. The reasons cited are "Illegal
operation
>performed or HP*.dll file not found".
>
>It appears that either the Word 2000 / Excel 97 application programs or parts of
>these programs are grabbed by the Windows 98 Explorer. Has anyone else experienced
>similar problems? Is there some known solution to avoid these problems? We have
>uninstalled and re-installed Word 2000 / Excel 97 programs a few times and also
cleaned
>up the Windows 98 registry. Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.
>Thanks,
>Raj
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