Quite possibly, and from here, don't know what your removed - or more
precisely - what its taken with it!

See also :- Error Message: "Explorer Has Caused an Error in Shdocvw.dll.
Explorer Will Now Close"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/265209/en-us
Which may not be too helpful.

However, if you're lucky, it *might* just be down to a damaged or corrupted
SHDOCVW.DLL file resulting from your spring clean. It's a longshot but has
to be worth a go, you could try replacing the existing SHDOCVW.DLL file with
a clean, fresh one and see if that helps.

A fresh copy of SHDOCVW.DLL can be extracted and/or copied from the
WIN_14.CAB. A copy of which should be available on your hard drive and/or on
your original WinMe CD (assuming either an MS copy or your OEM has made it
available in a retrievable form.

Mart


"Teri" wrote in message
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I've started getting this error on almost every program I try to open
"program" has caused an error in SHDOCVW.DLL'
Program will now close.
I have recently removed a few programs in the Add/Remove section, could
this
be the problem?