Explorer creats illegal operation

JeremiahVT · 04-12-2005, 06:41 PM

to start, the people in this forum are amazing and extremely helpful. i am running 98 SE, or was.... yesterday i was noticing that alot of the webpages i tried accessing werent working, and the pc was acting as if it was not connected to the internet at all. i tried resetting my computer, resetting my modem, and both at the same time but nothing seemed to help. some websites would work while others would not. at one point i decided to try ctrl alt delete and close explorer, because i thought that may fix the problem. explorer closed and so did my desktop, nothing unusual, but explorer never restarted itself, so i reset the computer. upon entering the opening screen, my wallpaper was there, but i was prompted to enter my 98 registration code, as if i had just completed installation of windows. i reset and restarted in safe mode only to find that my explorer would not open becuase it created an illegal operation. once i went back to regular and entered my registration code, i then entered my password for the network, and once again explorer has created an illegal operation, press close and then nothing else loads so i am left with my wallpaper and thats it. to work around this i got my extra hard drive, installed 98, i think the first version, onto it, and then made my original hard drive the slave. i can now access my files from the original hd and am running off the master with just the bare minimum.

I am wondering if anyone knows what went wrong here, and if there is any way i can fix it. while i can bear copying all my files to this hd and then formatting the other one, i would like to save that for my last ditch effort. i can also post the error message that explorer created if that would be more helpful. thanks!

**kodi** · 04-12-2005, 07:08 PM

You could reinstall Windows over itself on your master drive.

JeremiahVT · 04-12-2005, 07:16 PM

i already tried that, it didnt work. i am not sure what version of windows i have the cd for, i am thinking its the first version, and i was running SE on the original. if i tried to install the cd i have with se running already would that have caused it to not allow explorer to reinstall properly?

**jgvernonco** · 04-15-2005, 09:13 PM

Actually could have. Hop up to the IE home page at MS and download IE6, SP1 right over the top of your current installation, and see what happens.

04-12-2005, 06:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
JeremiahVT Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 2 OS: win98SE	Explorer creats illegal operation to start, the people in this forum are amazing and extremely helpful. i am running 98 SE, or was.... yesterday i was noticing that alot of the webpages i tried accessing werent working, and the pc was acting as if it was not connected to the internet at all. i tried resetting my computer, resetting my modem, and both at the same time but nothing seemed to help. some websites would work while others would not. at one point i decided to try ctrl alt delete and close explorer, because i thought that may fix the problem. explorer closed and so did my desktop, nothing unusual, but explorer never restarted itself, so i reset the computer. upon entering the opening screen, my wallpaper was there, but i was prompted to enter my 98 registration code, as if i had just completed installation of windows. i reset and restarted in safe mode only to find that my explorer would not open becuase it created an illegal operation. once i went back to regular and entered my registration code, i then entered my password for the network, and once again explorer has created an illegal operation, press close and then nothing else loads so i am left with my wallpaper and thats it. to work around this i got my extra hard drive, installed 98, i think the first version, onto it, and then made my original hard drive the slave. i can now access my files from the original hd and am running off the master with just the bare minimum. I am wondering if anyone knows what went wrong here, and if there is any way i can fix it. while i can bear copying all my files to this hd and then formatting the other one, i would like to save that for my last ditch effort. i can also post the error message that explorer created if that would be more helpful. thanks!

04-12-2005, 07:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
kodi Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sydney Australia Posts: 7,397 OS: Windows 7-Ultimate 64 Bit My System	You could reinstall Windows over itself on your master drive. __________________ Brian

04-15-2005, 09:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
jgvernonco Old Timer Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Northern Arizona Posts: 7,958 OS: Vista Home Premium, SP 27	Actually could have. Hop up to the IE home page at MS and download IE6, SP1 right over the top of your current installation, and see what happens. __________________ Donations keep TSF moving forward. Please help. http://www.myspace.com/speedbumpthecelt

04-12-2005, 07:16 PM	#3 (permalink)
JeremiahVT Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 2 OS: win98SE	i already tried that, it didnt work. i am not sure what version of windows i have the cd for, i am thinking its the first version, and i was running SE on the original. if i tried to install the cd i have with se running already would that have caused it to not allow explorer to reinstall properly?