Windows Explorer Causing an illegal oper

It sounds like you have some corrupt files. You probably need to reinstall your OS. You can run the Win9x setup and do a reinstallation. It will not harm your settings or applications that you have now. It will basically upgrade your current installation and replace the files with good ones.

Hope this helps!
- Steve

You might try restarting in dos and doing a scanreg /restore

What OS are you running? I had a similiar problem once on an NT workstation, and it was the user profile. I logged in with another user name and was able to perform all functions normally.

Just another possiblity for you to look at.

Rename the Explorer.exe file from c:\windows directory to something else. Make sure that you have the Product ID handy. Re-install Windows. Do not format the drive. All settings and configuration will be retained plus detects the new devices. This is simply to rebuild the Windows system files that have been corrupted.

Good luck!

Sounds like corrupted files, try doing a
setup /Pv this will only overwrite any corrupted, missing files during Windows Installation. It also gives you the option to save the origanl config.
The Pv is case sensitive.

If you are running an NT or 2000 sys, you may want to make sure that the username you are using has full administrative rights to that system. If it is a 9x sys it is probably just a case of reinstalling the OS as mentioned by answer 1. Good Luck!

Yes all facts point to corrupt files,suggest that you insert the ERD in a:drive,boot up the system and it will reinstall the neccessary files that will overwrite corrupt files.Hopes this helps

Before reinstalling Windows, try going to Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools and open System Information. Under the Tool menu, select System File Checker. This tool will find what files are corrupt and will allow you to extract them from your Windows disk. That may help you avoid the hassle of reinstalling.

Only time I saw sometihng similar was when someone ran the ie5etup.exe download to install IE5 in 98SE instea of using the windows update.

The way I cured it was to use the add/remove to attemp to deinstall what was there, rename the explorer.exeand shell32.dll files and then run the 98SE setup again.

Hope that help you...

Mark

Your PC is rejecting its baboon heart. Delete Windows and install Linux. It will let you create AND delete files!

sorry, it's been a long day.

had a problem like this with a laptop
a while back. It also had win95. It
started after removing some old programs.
In addition, I could not remove any other
programs. I installed win98se and IE5.
no more problems.

I had the same problem a while back
Try the following:
Open System Information. Under the Tools select System File Checker. This tool will find corrupt files and allow you to replace them from disk.

Corrupt files yes, maybe.
I would work through, sysedit.exe, sysinfo.exe (part of MS office),DRwatson.exe, run a full scandisk in DOS,Monitor with taskmanager.exe. These are all found in Win98. Also learn and use MSCONFIG.EXE; the tools drop down will show much. Worst case fall back to previous registry.
THIS HAS RECOVERED MY SYSTEM MANY TIMES, WITHOUT HAVING TO START OVER.
JUST FOLLOW TO THE LETTER
Repair Your Windows 98 Registry
Category: Windows 98 All Windows98 Registry
Normally, if ScanReg detects a corrupt Registry at boot time, the bad version is replaced
with a good backup. This can sometimes be inconvenient. If your Windows 98 setup is
missing recent configuration changes after a Registry replacement, you can attempt to
repair and reinstall the corrupted version. Create a temporary directory (for example,
C:\TEMP), then open Explorer to the WINDOWS\SYSBCKUP folder. Right-c

Right-click the drive's icon,and then click the Properties in the context menu
Click the tools tab,and then in the Error-Checking Status box,click Check Now
Select the Automatically Fix Errors option
Click Advanced,and then within the Check FilesFor box,select Invalid Filenames
Click Start to run Scandisk
After scanning the disk,rename any files or subdirectories (folders) in the root using only upper case 8.3 compliant file or subdirectory names.Move some files or directories to subdirectories,or delete unneccessary files or directories.