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by j_ven_katesh

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Hai Friends,

My self is venkatesh. I am facing a unique problem for the past four days. I cant open two note pads or calculator at the same time. When attempting to open second notepad, a message pops saying that notepad has performed a illegal operation and is clossed. Similarly i am not able to open any of the win zip's self extracting file. It says that the winzip header is corrupted. But the same file opens in other computers.

i have performed a thorough virus scan(Fire Antivirus) and even scan disk. But could not trace out the origin of the problem.

Can anyone please help me to trace out the problem and a remedy also.

From J. Venkatesh

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by wpteh

You problem seems difficult to analyze. Here are some checks you can do in the meantime.

1) What OS are you running on?
2) Go to www.antivirus.com and scan your PC with the on-line Housecall program. It will provide you with the latest virus definition file during the scanning.
3) Assuming that no viruses is found. Then I think that physcially, your PC memory chip is failing you. Do some memory integrity checks using Norton Utilities.
4) Check if your harddisk capacity is running low.
5)What tasks is active in the memory at that instance.
6) Disable DMA settings for your IDE drives and try again. (if you are using Win 95/98)
7) Try to remember what setting changes you have made to your PC past 4 days?

Good luck.

5mm.
Singapore.

by brugge

I see the problem was already a long time ago, but as it is not checked resolved, I would add to the other answer that I suspect your operating system. The most secure way is to re-install windows. The problem might be that your computer went off and on whilst it was busy loading windows. In that case explorer and taskmanager and rundll can be corrupt. If you have the same operating system on a second computer, you might try to copy those files and paste them on your computer in the windows directory again. But if re-installing windows does not word, it might be a hardware problem but I do'nt think so.

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