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by fisheye121

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ok... I've tried everthing and am throwing my hands up with this one. A Windows 98 machine is displaying an "illegal operation" message with "Rundll32" in the title bar of the message. I've tried 'scanreg /restore'; 'scanreg /fix'; I've even tried arepair install of the OS...only to see that same error. Any suggestions??? Thanks

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by ctr2000

Did you do a virus scan?
You could back up your important documents and then format the drive and reinstall windows.
The Rundll32 is for shuting down windows, i believe.
Maybe you could use system file checker. Start run sfc and then extract that file from you Win 98 disk and see if that does something.

by Member 31833046

I'd go into the registry and shut off anything that doesn't need to be running in the backround,if you know how to this.

by shadowfax

One thing to try is to download adaware by lavasoft, I ran into a computer that had over 200 spyware entries. It caused similar error messages. Another thing, have you emptied the cookies, temp internet files and cleared history? Should you try this, also run disk cleanup, scandisk and defragmentation of your HDD.
HTH
Shadowfax

by fisheye121

Thanks for all the suggestions. I ended up saving all documents and files to a USB ThumbDrive, formating the hard drive and reinstalling the OS. I'm going to award the points to CTR2000, because that's the suggestion I went with. But they were all good ideas. Thanks to everyone.

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