Windows crashes when entering a web site

If you're using IE, then try to use Netscape 3 or higher to see if same occurs. It may be the site itself is "pushing" some content or cookie that may be invalidating the page.

This error message is being caused by a device conflict,a device driver needs to be updated or you may have a device that is not working properly,go to Start>Settings>Control Panel,double-click on the system icon,select the device tab and see if their is a yellow exclamation mark on any device,if not this update the drivers to hardware and then reboot,the memory dump may be recording by accessing the video adapter which may be your culprit.

First try to delete *.pwl in your C:\Windows folder.

Then if that doesn't work, refer to this document on troubleshooting VxD errors. It's very informative:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q137/3/35.asp

Check out Microsoft Knowledgebase article:
Q187965

Page faults usually are caused because the system is trying to access a portion of memory that is not supported,in your case it seems the Virtual Device cannot access the 32Bit application drivers and therefore gives a fatal exception error,usually you will have to reinstall the OS to make sure that all dll files are loaded.Try going to Start>Settings>Find Files or Folders and when the window opens ,type in Kernel32.dll,when the file or folder is found double click to reinstall.Hope this Helps.

This happened to me after I installed IE 5.5.
It was due to a TSR called GATOR. If you are running Gator and IE 5.5, you will have to upgrade Gator to the new IE5.5 compatible version on their website. Both Microsoft and Gator are aware of this problem.

Hi
I was thinking that once it opened,you could open it in note pad to verify the program that was causing you the problem now that you know that it is being caused by gator,Win98 has a file recovery tool in Programs>Accessories>System Tools>SystemInfo,click the tools menu and then in drop down list select file recovery and you may get the .dll library to reinstall from the cd
or run setup again just running the cd.

Hi
Now that you know that gator is causing the problem,open your browser and click the tools menu,select internet options and click on the advanced tab go down the list and and look for the box that has auto complete form and uncheck that box,now then if this does not work you have done run setup with the cd rom only and it should automatically start up
this seems simple and I am sorry that I cannot get you the solution.

Try this one, it may work.
Quit all applications running in the background first. Next open control panel and select 'add/remove programs'. Next highlight MS Internet Explorer and select 'add/remove'. This willl give you three options :- Add or remove a component, fix internet explorer or return to original setting.

Firstly try choosing 'fix internet explorer'. In many cases this will iron out your problem. If this does not work then choose 'return to original setting'. This will remove anyupdates and return to your original version of IE. When this is complete, reboot and run a scan disk. Next you'll need to end task again on any bckground applications so you only have 'explorer' and 'systray' runnning, and try installing IE5.5 again. If this fails to sort out your problem then as a last resort run 'system file checker'. This will look for any missing or corrupted files and replace them from your cabs. You cn also try extracting the file that windows says is missing vxd.dll if that is the one that is causing problems.

I don't promise any of this will work, but I certainly hope that it does!

It's very possible there's a bad script or applet on the page which is inadvertantly calling a device driver you don't have. Simple solution:Try looking at the page from a different machine, if it still crashes you'll KNOW the page is bad. Complex solution: Have a HTML/Java/Javascript-savvy person look at the source code for the page, they should be able to see the error if it exists in the source code.

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