You have a virus or spyware parasite.
Start up with a boot disk
At the A: prompt type: cd c: and press enter
At the prompt type: del c:\windows\temp\*.* and press enter
At the prompt type: del c:\windows\tempor~1\*.* and press enter
Remove the disk and press ctrl+alt+del to reboot

If it now will boot to Safe Mode, Normal or you get other error messages, post to an
appropriate ng for further assistance in cleaning out the machine:
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion

Include your original problem, what you have tried and any exact error messages with
details minus the register entries.

--
Brian A.

Jack of all trades, Master of none.
One can never truly be a master as there is always more to learn.


"Rick" wrote in message
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My computer has been working perfectly for several years
but this morning when I turned it on the Explorer box
came up to say "this program has performed an illegal
action and will be shut down". Details showed an invalid
page fault in mod. ~5368815274.tmp @ 17flef3a6a
whatever that is. When I click off of this box everything
disappears except the default background green desktop.
The computer will restart but the Explorer box reappears
each time with the same message and nothing is
accessible. Anyone know what the problem is?