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re: ever seen this before? Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 6:40 pm Posted by equindlen (139 messages posted) Would suggest several things. Boot from your startup disk and run scanreg /fix or scanreg /restore if you think you have a good copy of your registry. Run msconfig, and select selective startup unchecking config.sys and autoexec.bat. If that solves it you know your problem is there. Check your device manager for conflicts or use system tools to check for this. If not, remove your network protocols and adapters one by one to see if there is a problem there. Lastly, reboot pressing F8 and choose boot with bootlog file and go over that file to check for failure to load important drivers. On Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 5:30 pm, jeremy Bray wrote: >I have an extremely annoying problem, and anyone reading this willing to help, thank >you in advance. I have windows 98, and after i log on to the windows network at >startup, and illegal operation message comes up that says "EXPLORER caused an invalid >page faoul in module EXPLORER.EXE at 0167:00401f31." and it says some more details >about it in coding. Windows won't boot in safe mode, but command prompt works. > If anyone has any ideas on what i could try, in dos or before startup, please post >it, all posts will be greatly appreciated [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ever seen this before? Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 6:46 pm Posted by bob b (88 messages posted) hi yes i have.generally it means a shareware program has corrupted the file. you can review your downloads or installations of recent. i would delete the downloads and reinstall,same with your programs. if you have anti-virus think about that as well. bob On Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 5:30 pm, jeremy Bray wrote: >I have an extremely annoying problem, and anyone reading this willing to help, thank >you in advance. I have windows 98, and after i log on to the windows network at >startup, and illegal operation message comes up that says "EXPLORER caused an invalid >page faoul in module EXPLORER.EXE at 0167:00401f31." and it says some more details >about it in coding. Windows won't boot in safe mode, but command prompt works. > If anyone has any ideas on what i could try, in dos or before startup, please post >it, all posts will be greatly appreciated [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ever seen this before? Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 11:35 pm Posted by Rundll (167 messages posted) this error often occurs because of a broken shell. it can be hard to recover from...gracefully. how does the shell get broken? a common way is to install software that updates internet explorer...especially with antivirus running. installing office2k will update internet explorer, i believe quicken will install ie5 (maybe ie6 now) if it feels it needs to, or simply upgrading the software yourself to the latest and greatest. other possibilities are a corrupted file or maybe a virus infection. ninety nine percent of the cases i have seen are due to updates to ie. when did this start? what changed...any software installed or removed? what version of internet explorer do you have? need a little more information on how it got broke before a direction can be plotted to fix it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ever seen this before? Tuesday, May 7, 2002 at 5:57 am Posted by Ferry (1 messages posted) Hi I got this message too, I just tried to uninstall trial ver of PcAnywhere and can't do anything now since it never able to bring up the windows desktop (also in safe mode) I tried to extract explorer.exe, comctl32.dll, msvcrt.dll also scanreg /fix without any luck When I tried scanreg /restore and brought back the previous registry, the system failed to pass part of PcAnywhere (system stop, is there anyway to bypass this part) thank you On Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 11:35 pm, Rundll wrote: >this error often occurs because of a broken shell. it can be hard to recover from...gracefully. > >how does the shell get broken? a common way is to install software that updates >internet explorer...especially with antivirus running. installing office2k will >update internet explorer, i believe quicken will install ie5 (maybe ie6 now) if it >feels it needs to, or simply upgrading the software yourself to the latest and greatest. > other possibilities are a corrupted file or maybe a virus infection. ninety nine >percent of the cases i have seen are due to updates to ie. > >when did this start? > >what changed...any software installed or removed? > >what version of internet explorer do you have? > >need a little more information on how it got broke before a direction can be plotted >to fix it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum