Win Explorer illegal operation

[AAP]

After installing a downloaded program for recovering MSWord passwords I re-booted my Win98 pc. It After logging in it comes up with an error:<br><br>Explorer<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;This program has performed an illegal operation<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;and will be shut down.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;If the problem persists, contact the program<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;vendor.<br><br>When I clear the message I am left with just a background and the mouse pointer, which I can still move. Starting in safe mode makes no difference. Is there a way of fixing this without having to do a Windows re-install?

 

[leart3]

After you got the message the first time, on what occasion did you get it again. Do you get the Illegal when you operate word, or do you get it when you operate your new downloaded program?

If you are sure it's related to the new download why not go to &quot;Add/Remove&quot; in the control panel and remove this new download, restart the computer, and see if you continue to get it. If you don't get it try re-downloading the program again. After trying this process several times and you are sure it's related to this new download, trash the download and try to find another one.

leart3

 

[tomw]

Do you see the message (at the lower left of the IE window) stating that IE can't find server or DNS error?

If so, you may need to rename your winsock.dll and/or your Wsock32.dll and/or your Wsock32.vxd and re-extract it. Some programs and devices, when installed, replace this file with a different build, or version.

There are specific builds for each OS release listed on the microsoft site.

 

[triple7]

One of the most common causes of explorer posting Illegal operations is the downloaded programme was not actually installed correctly. It is not enough to close open applications but all running (startup files) must be shut down before installation commences. Qikfix from

http://www.easydesksoftware.com

works exceptionally or you can close these programmes one at a time with the Ctrl+Alt+delete keys. Click &quot;end task&quot; on all running programmes except for explorer. Now install your programme and then reboot. You may encounter a problem when installing for the second time if certain old registry entries now embedded in the system are not removed. The only way you can really know which setting to remove is by contacting the software programmer and ask. That not being possible, the safest bet is to search the registry for all the programmes entries after you have uninstalled it and delete the remaining uninstalled files from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software. (Backup the registry first)
If the rules of proper installation are followed and errors or malfunction of a particular programme is still present when using it, then it is likely the downloaded programme is at fault.
Rod from Wintech Solutions

 

[AAP]

Thanks for all your input. As the error occurred on startup and I couldn't get anything to happen afterwards I ended up re-installing windows, this did the trick. Thanks anyway.

 

[vechalapu]

Hi,

I am getting same error when I download one partcular page from a web site through IE5.0.

explorer
This program has performed an illegal operation
and will be shut down.

If the problem persists, contact the program
vendor.

When I double click on details section the I see the following message:

EXPLORER caused a divide error in module SWFLASH.OCX at 0167:028ba435.
Registers:
EAX=03e80000 CS=0167 EIP=028ba435 EFLGS=00250246
EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=0114a928 EBP=0114a950
ECX=00000000 DS=016f ESI=0291b288 FS=4397
EDX=00000000 ES=016f EDI=00000001 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f7 f9 89 8e 94 01 00 00 8b ce 89 86 98 01 00 00
Stack dump:
00000000 02927284 00000000 0114a944 00000000 00000000 02927284 00000800 0114b16c 028e40f9 0114b16c 028e4116 0114a974 00000800 00000005 004912c0


Please post if some one has any suggestion to fix this error.