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by kmcguire

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When I open Windows Explorer and then try to open/highlight a folder, it closes immediately with no warning or error reported.

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by kmcguire

The OS is Windows98 SE with all the updates. System is a K6-2 400Mhz, 196MB ram, 82GB partitioned. Doesn't matter if it's an empty folder of one with content. Ran SFC and all is well. Have reinstalled kernel32.dll 5 times already.

by awimsatt

Well, I have run into this problem before and I normally fix it by just running windows setup again. You could go through and replace dlls one by one until you find the culprit, but the easiest thing is to just let windows setup replace all of the Windows dlls. If that doesn't work, then back up your data files, format, and rebuild. It's good to format a drive every 6 months or so anyways, just to keep it clean. In this case, I hope that just a simple reinstall of windows does it. Good luck.

Adam

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