the Realplayer is closed

sometime when I listen to the realplayer or access to IE, I receive a warning message for closing a program as follow:

REALPLAY caused a general protection fault
in module GDI.EXE at 0001:00000004.
Registers:
EAX=00005b61 CS=0567 EIP=00000004 EFLGS=00000202
EBX=00000000 SS=241f ESP=000087d8 EBP=00000000
ECX=00010000 DS=0167 ESI=00000f0f FS=0f0f
EDX=00010000 ES=0000 EDI=00000167 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
a4 5b b1 5b 67 05 b9 5b c5 5b c5 5b 7f 05 8d 09
Stack dump:
00000002 000000b0 0068f58a 0030da56 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000000f 00000000 00000000 00000000 0063f824 605f7867 0000000f 00000000 00000000

I would like to learn what a general protection fault is about? and how to fix it?