I just did a very clean install of win98.  It worked fine for half a day but
now I get an explorer error
message very quickly on the boot which says illegal operation with details
"Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module explorer.exe

Can anyone help me?  I get "Explorer.exe caused an invalid page fault
in explorer.exe at 018F: 00401F31" when I bootup pc.  I have tried
putting drive in two other pcs as slave drives and could not see hard
drive.  Put the drive back into original pc and still get the error.

I have been doing a cold boot each morning for many years, so am used to seeing
something new each day at times.
My Western Digital 15 GB hard drive is about 5 years old, used 8/24 in those years.
My AV and antispyware regularly show my hard drive is clean. I use Firefox,

I'm stumped on this one. I have two computers running Win98SE on a
dialup. Both were updated in recent months from jave 1.4.2. I used
Firefox to update the first computer from java 1.5.2 to 1.5-6 last
week with no problem. I've been trying to update the other computer

On my HP Pavilion 6465 PC that uses Win98 First Edition the "Splash Screen"
of Adobe Acrobat Readetr 5.0.1 remains dormant for an annoying 62 seconds
before the program loads it's APIs and dlls.  On my wife's generic PC that
uses Win98 Second Edition the dormant period of the ...

This error keep windows from running, could not resolve with KB info articles
so I formatted new hard drive, reinstalled windows, ran factory restore disk,
still same problem. windows will not boot in any mode. knowedge Base info no
help.

I've got a 250 GB IDE HDD formatted with one primary DOS partition
under FAT32 to 128 GB (more or less). This is not my C: drive, it's
actually the third physical hard drive in my system; it's an add-on
for extra storage. This drive is connected via a Promise Ultra 100 TX2

I have been playing around with a Windows 98 machine and recently installed a
NIC card.  Now every time I boot an MS Dos window pops up on the screen and
will not go away.  The first window is a REDIR31 and then it goes to and
RPCSR window that stays open during the entire ...

A problem recently developed with "Save As" dialog boxes: the directories
appear in reverse chronological order, not alphabetical order. I know how to
get them back into alphabetical order (by clicking on the "details" button,
then on the name column heading, but it doesn't stick. ...

I have been given  a computer that has Brazilian version of Win98 SE. It had
IE 5 on it and I installed IR 6 from the American site. I did not test this
before, so I am not sure it is related, but i am having trouble reaching
windows update. i have tried reaching both the ...

My graphics went haywire sudenly and i have discovered the settings has
changed to 16 colour resolution instead of 256. When i change it and restart
it allways goes back to 16. I have tried everything, virus scans, pc
checkups, which cannot be completed because of this problem. ...

I can get a list of programs which start when I boot up the computer and a
list of tasks running on the computer.  How do I get some information about
which of those startup programs and tasks are required?
I had a list once, but it was beaucoup pages long and most of them were

I would like to set up a webcam to stay in touch with relatives in Oz and
have received a Logitech Quickcam Messenger for a Christmas gift. However in
spite if clear information on the packaging that Windows 98 is compatable
software for this webcam I never got it working. After ...

There is a text file that reads:
--file starts here
J is an engineer.
K is a doctor.

    I recently put Windows 98 on an old computer which completely crashed and HAD
95 on it. I used a router and connected (?) the internet to the computer.
However, whenever I start IE, the following message comes up:
"Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://home ...