Windows Explorer Causing an illegal oper

Sorry you are having these problems!! You need to specify what version of Windows you are running...also, if it is Win 95, there is an "A" and a "B" version.

Without knowing what you have, I did find this for Win 98 at the Microsoft site:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q191/6/09.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0

The error messages you are getting are on this page.

This is what it says:
CAUSE
This behavior can occur if the Microsoft Windows 95 version of the Explorer.exe file is located in the root folder of drive C.

RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, rename or delete the Explorer.exe file in the root folder of drive C. For information about how to rename or delete a file, click Start, click Help, click the Index tab, type "files" (without quotation marks), and then double-click the "Renaming" or "Deleting" topic. Then, extract a new copy of the Explorer.exe file from your Windows 98 CD-ROM to the Windows folder on your hard disk. For additional information about how to extrac

Go to Run box and type in MSCONFIG and check the lines that point to the virtual memory and stack dump these two lines can be increased to motheboard spec.
Also when confronted with a KERNEL32.DLL corrupt file ,I rerun the OS from the CD-rom only and it reinstalls the dll files without interferring with current set up.Hope this helps

First rename Kernel32.dll to Kernel32.old, find the Kernel32.dll on your OS CD and copy it to the same directory as Kernel32.old. If you can't find it there get a copy from someone or let me know your exact OS and I can send it to you. Reboot yourcomputer and everything should work. You might have to do the same thing with Explorer.exe as well. It sounds like you have some corrupt files to deal with.

Good Luck!

Well, I think you're spending much time and points on this issue.
If you can afford or if if you have an extra disk, any size, take the original out, install your OS (40 minutes tops)re-insert your disk as a slave, retrive all the important info, fdisk and format your original disk and re-install the OS.
Even if you get this one fixed, doesn't mean it won't be other issues down the road.

that's my 2 cents. Good luck!

I believe that what you need to do is to re-install your operating system on the same root directory which it is currently installed on. This way you would keep all your settings for all your programs and you wouldn't lose anything.

All you need is a copy of your operating system on a CD or you might already have it on your hard disk.

Hope this works, I'm sorry if it was posted the first time you submitted your question, but i haven't seen it.

Rafik El-Raheb.

I have had the same type of problem on several different machines. In every case, I have been able to uninstall Internet Explorer from the add remove programs applet in control panel and then re-install it to fix the issue. I am also curious as to the folders your deleted.

Thanks.....Jeremy

Instead of putting in another hard drive, you can reinstall Windows into another folder on your hard drive. If you can delete folders with this installation, then your problem is definitely related to the original installation of Windows.
Also, I don't remember if I saw this, but try running a disk repair program, like Scandisk, or Norton Disk Doctor. If you have corruption in FAT, or something like that, then you will have erratic problems.
Good luck. BTW, this is way too many points to be giving away.....
- Steve Cody

Sounds like it could be a fat problem. This may be a last option, but you may need to backup and reformat the partition.

JDA

I know this may sound simple, but back from my tech support days, we had some standard things that we had customers do in situations like this, and 90% of the time, their problem would be solved. Just do the following:

1. Delete all temporary files in the c:\windows\temp folder.

2. Scandisk and fix any errors found.

3. Defragment your hard disk.

4. Lower your graphics acceleration setting. I'm sure you know how to do this (right-click on My Computer, select Properties, click the performance tab, click on Graphics, and move the slider one space to the left from its present position).

If you still are unable to delete the folders in question, then restart in DOS mode and delete them from there. You didn't say whether the problem was occuring for EVERY folder that you try to delete. I've had this happen before on a corrupted folder. Deleting it from DOS mode was the only thing that worked for me.