Program faultThis appeared on my screen this morning Iexplore This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem continues, contact the vender. Shell 32.DLL at 017.---------------
What does this mean?
Another program has interfered with Internet Explorer and caused IE to crash. If the crash is serious enough, you will get the message to reboot.
If you have this sort of crash, its better to shut completely down, wait for a count of 10 and then restart, rather than use the Start menu, Restart which is the same as a soft boot. This may not always clear all of the memory addresses and one of these may be causing the interference that caused the crash.
Severe crash recovery
OK, here's the scenario: I make a boot disk (floppy) as explained. Then one day my computer crashes. Now I insert the disk. What happens then? What comes up on the screen? What do I have to do to get whatever it is I lost in the crash?
When you boot up on the floppy, you will end at the C:\ prompt. Its a cold hard black screen that does not have much in the way of explanation. The first thing you would do would be to try to recover without having to reinstall. At the C:\ enter the command SCANREG /FIX and press enter. This will try to repair any problems that you have with the registry (this is especially helpful if the machine will not start, but hangs on booting to windows.). Once this scan is done, shut off the computer and restart. If you still cannot go completely to windows, again issue the command SCANREG (this time without the /FIX). It will quickly scan your registry and then give you an option to restore an older registry. If the computer was working a day or two ago, you can look at the dates of the stored registry backups and select one when the computer was working ok. Restore this, shut off the computer when done and then restart. If after all this, you still cannot return to windows then more severe measures will be needed.
Recovery Options
BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL if you decide to use the RESTORE CD. My neighbor just had an experience with the shop doing this (gateway) without telling her what the consequences would be. It wiped all the data, including a day old resume that her husband had worked on for two weeks, and restored it to the condition that it was the day she brought it home over two years ago. There are a number of options before you go to the restore disk.
1. Boot to Dos (hold the ESC key while booting and select 5 from the menu), the use the scanreg command. This will check your registry and allow you to replace with an earlier version that may not be corrupt, or use Scanreg /fix to try to repair the registry.
2. If you received a recovery disk and did not get a full windows CD, there will be a set of files on your machine including the setup.exe that will allow you to reinstall windows right over your existing version which will possibly repair corrupt or replace missing files. This will be in C:\Windows\Options\Cabs . Using the command from that folder (you have to change directories to get to the setup.exe by using
CD \Windows\Options\Cabs and press enter. Note the space between CD and \Windows ), SETUP and press enter, you can start the installation process of Windows from the C:> that you can get to from the startup floppy.3. There is yet another option for those that know the old dos commands. The file may not be on your machine if you only have Win98, but can be obtained by searching the net. The command is DELTREE.COM . This will remove a folder and subfolders, with out having to format the drive. This, as I say, is for those that know the old procedures in DOS. If you should ever need this one, you will need a FULL WINDOWS CD and not the recovery type. You will also need a boot disk that will load your CD drivers. (Windows 98 automatically creates this type of boot floppy.)
Windows Disk
For those of you with newer machines and a CD burner, here is an interesting article about creating a full windows CD from your recovery disk.
2) Creating a Windows CD from a Recovery Disk
Reader Rick Austin sent along this clip
With so many people buying new computers and not getting the Windows CD with their purchase and manufacturers telling them "Sorry you will have to format" if you need to reinstall Windows, I have taken the time to explain how you can reinstall Windows without formatting. I outline in detail how to create your own Windows CD from the manufacturers Recovery Disk. It's a simple and quick process. Go to
http://www.easydesksoftware.com/recovery.htm .
Quoted from Langalist.