(Windows98, IExplorer 6 pkg.) Help, please! I was downloading a windows update that was almost completed when my cat knocked the plug out of the wall. I rebooted and did it again, and this time the computer just shut down for no reason (that I could tell). When I started it up again I started getting the message "this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" when ever I tried to open Internet Explorer or My Computer. When I hit details, I got different messages every time, but they all said "explorer has caused this to do that, or that to do this, etc. When I tried to close them, they would pop back up again with different details each time.
I thought that since it was stopped twice in the middle of downloading that there might be some fragments, so I defragmented, did a thorough scandisk, and a disk cleanup. I just had to start over 3 times before it would let me open this window. I just kept clicking close, close, close, only this time it just gave up and went away (for now) instead of closing the program, and I took advantage of this window to send this help query because something still doesn't seem right because the hard disk drive icon is just going and going... Does anyone know what could have happened, and should I try download windows update again? Thanks. gg
I thought that since it was stopped twice in the middle of downloading that there might be some fragments, so I defragmented, did a thorough scandisk, and a disk cleanup. I just had to start over 3 times before it would let me open this window. I just kept clicking close, close, close, only this time it just gave up and went away (for now) instead of closing the program, and I took advantage of this window to send this help query because something still doesn't seem right because the hard disk drive icon is just going and going... Does anyone know what could have happened, and should I try download windows update again? Thanks. gg