But what about motherboard, video and audio drivers? Microsoft provides no offer to update those. Such errors can have this and other sources.
1. An older machine that the CPU fan is now slower, clogged or failed. That is, hardware issues such as heat, a power supply that is now overtaxed. Tip: Don't write "It worked till now." The capacitors degrade with time, along with it, capacity. Light reading at http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040122/
2. Too many other programs running. 98 has these tiny resource pools that Microsoft never fixed to not be an issue. YOU get to manage the Optimizing Windows such as you read at http://www.aumha.org/articles.htm
3. PARASITES.
Parasite removal programs.
http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6132-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=1313&start=0 notes the five scanning tools and removal tools that are fairly safe. If one does encounter an issue, its always been damage done by the MALWARE. The most common issue being Layered Service Provider replacement which you can use LSPFIX (Hint: use http://www.google.com to find).
The thread has follow on discussions about new links if you don't want to use Google to find an item.
Bob
PS. All the tools are free.
when trying to read post in a msn group i get 1/2 way down the page and get this
Iexplorer
this program has performed an illegal
operation and will shut down
IEXPLORE caused a general protection fault
in module <unknown> at 0000:0001f929.
Registers:
EAX=000000ca CS=2077 EIP=0001f929 EFLGS=00010282
EBX=00000000 SS=207f ESP=0000c908 EBP=0000c940
ECX=f79f0603 DS=207f ESI=0000c970 FS=52f6
EDX=f79f060b ES=207f EDI=00000095 GS=2057
Bytes at CS:EIP:
0f b7 42 f8 2b c8 66 8b 52 04 66 23 d2 74 14 8b
Stack dump:
0000c970 00000095 0001a0fa f79f060b 0000207f 0000c970 0000207f 0001f914 0000207f 000000b0 0095ca46 f79f060b 00000000 00000000 0000cbd0 00016cd0
i am runing windows 98, have done all the updates
on it and Iexplorer.
how can i fix this thank you mary ann

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