Illegal operations

[pkowbell]

alot of my programs give me a "this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" window. it does not happen all of the time, and not on all programs. Most notably itnernet explorer, my dial up connection and wordpad. I just got this pc 2nd hand from a friend and am a bigginer. please help

 

[Rollin' Rog]

Welcome to the board pkowbell.

When you get an "illegal operation" message like that, be sure to click on the "details" tab and copy or note the modules and error addresses. We don't need all of it, just the part that says something like "Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll at such and such an address...."

The first thing you need to do, if you haven't already, is run an updated antivirus scan. If you don't have a scanner, you can do an online one here:

http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/

In the event that you do some virus cleaning and find yourself unable to run executable (.exe) programs afterwards, download and double click on the exefix08 program you can get from here:

http://home.earthlink.net/~rmbox/Reticulated/Only_IE.html

 

[pkowbell]

hey! Thanx for your help!

The warning window reads: explorer caused an invalid page fault in moduel TAPI.DLL at 0014:00007638
and then a whole bunch of numbers. I got this pc second hand for free so other tech support is minimal so again thanx for your help!!

 

[eddie5659]

Hiya

The only thing on TAPI that I could find is this, but its for Rundll32.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/1/52.asp

May be the one though.

Regards

eddie

 

[Rollin' Rog]

What operating system are you running? Win98 or Win95?

 

[pkowbell]

'95 but i'm working on getting a copy of '98. it seems to be hard to find!!!

I don't have a cool sig. but i'll make one up

ahem
Tech guys are great
if I knew them I would give them cake

OK I tried

thanx

 

[Rollin' Rog]

It's a rather obscure error that could be anything from modem drivers to Dialup Networking. If we knew exactly what caused it, we could probably lead you through a fix. But guess work is likely to cause more problems with this.