Apart from formatting the C: drive and performing a clean
installation of 98, making sure that any virus protection
setting in the BIOS is disabled, because it ruins the
setup, you can try running the Repair features in TweakUI:

TweakUI 1.33 - The latest version for all versions of
Windows from 95 to Me and 2000 -

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstati...ads/PowerToys/
Networking/NTTweakUI.asp

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/


-----Original Message-----
Hi all,

I'm having a problem with a customer's machine. It's
running Win98SE /
IE5.5. Initially the machine hung as soon as the desktop
appeared and would
go no further. Booting into safe mode and disabling all
none-essential items
in msconfig allowed the machine to start Windows, but
opening My Computer,
Recycle bin etc caused

Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module unknown
at 000:00000001.

The machine then hung and required a reboot. Since the
machine doesn't have
it's own antivirus software (yet!) I've pulled the HDD
and scanned it in
another machine. A few trojans were found and deleted,
but the problem
remained. I've managed to install and run Adaware SE by
running its setup
from a command prompt. It found a number of nasties
including (from memory)
VX2, and duly removed them, but the problem still
persists.

I've booted from a floppy and deleted the history,
cookies and temp internet
folders, but that didn't help either.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

TIA,

Rob Ashburn.


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