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Explorer.exe error
Recently, my 350 MHz AMD K-6 3D Now 2 computer using Win 98 SE has been
acting very slow – the mouse hesitates and it takes a few moments to load programs. I have an older computer with 256 RAM and a relatively new (less than a year) Maxtor 40 Gb hard drive (using only 8 Gb) and under System, I have 90% free resources. I ran Spybot – no issues, McAfee – no issues and then Ad-Aware. It stopped under a file named Viewpoint and would not continue. I looked under Program Files/Viewpoint and found some garbled files (|@$advjnv) totaling over 92 Gb and dates ranging from 1943 to 1984. I attempted to delete them but was not successful under Explorer or under DOS. I then attempted to run Defrag, but it indicated that there were errors that needed to be corrected before running. I ran Scandisk – thorough/surface scan – although it took several hours there were no errors. I then started the defrag process and let it run overnight. We had a temporary power outage – off and then back on – early in the morning which caused the computer to reboot. Well, when it came back on it had an error message – Explorer has caused an invalid page fault in explorer.exe. I tried a recommendation to boot up in Command prompt and rename C:\explorer.exe to explorer.old. It indicated that it could not find it in C:, I then renamed the explorer.exe in C:\Windows. That didn’t work either. I decided to reinstall Windows 98 SE over my existing installation. Everything was fine until the final boot. Same explorer.exe error. Then I decided to extract explorer.exe from the CABS file on the CD. Reinstalled Windows again – same explorer.exe error. Left the computer on and came back an hour later and found that it completed booting up with several errors. Closed the errors and Windows is running, but I’m not sure it is without any problems. Any suggestions or thoughts? |
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Explorer.exe error
Reinstalling Windows over an old copy of Windows will not solve your
problems. What you should be doing is backing up all of your files from the C: drive and put them onto another partition or drive. Then, format C: and install a fresh copy of Windows. Then reinstall all the drivers and applications...if this does not do the trick, post back. "sheppardwk" wrote in message ... Recently, my 350 MHz AMD K-6 3D Now 2 computer using Win 98 SE has been acting very slow - the mouse hesitates and it takes a few moments to load programs. I have an older computer with 256 RAM and a relatively new (less than a year) Maxtor 40 Gb hard drive (using only 8 Gb) and under System, I have 90% free resources. I ran Spybot - no issues, McAfee - no issues and then Ad-Aware. It stopped under a file named Viewpoint and would not continue. I looked under Program Files/Viewpoint and found some garbled files (|@$advjnv) totaling over 92 Gb and dates ranging from 1943 to 1984. I attempted to delete them but was not successful under Explorer or under DOS. I then attempted to run Defrag, but it indicated that there were errors that needed to be corrected before running. I ran Scandisk - thorough/surface scan - although it took several hours there were no errors. I then started the defrag process and let it run overnight. We had a temporary power outage - off and then back on - early in the morning which caused the computer to reboot. Well, when it came back on it had an error message - Explorer has caused an invalid page fault in explorer.exe. I tried a recommendation to boot up in Command prompt and rename C:\explorer.exe to explorer.old. It indicated that it could not find it in C:, I then renamed the explorer.exe in C:\Windows. That didn't work either. I decided to reinstall Windows 98 SE over my existing installation. Everything was fine until the final boot. Same explorer.exe error. Then I decided to extract explorer.exe from the CABS file on the CD. Reinstalled Windows again - same explorer.exe error. Left the computer on and came back an hour later and found that it completed booting up with several errors. Closed the errors and Windows is running, but I'm not sure it is without any problems. Any suggestions or thoughts? |
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Reinstalling Windows over an old copy of Windows will not solve your
problems. What you should be doing is backing up all of your files from the C: drive and put them onto another partition or drive. Then, format C: and install a fresh copy of Windows. Then reinstall all the drivers and applications...if this does not do the trick, post back. "sheppardwk" wrote in message ... Recently, my 350 MHz AMD K-6 3D Now 2 computer using Win 98 SE has been acting very slow - the mouse hesitates and it takes a few moments to load programs. I have an older computer with 256 RAM and a relatively new (less than a year) Maxtor 40 Gb hard drive (using only 8 Gb) and under System, I have 90% free resources. I ran Spybot - no issues, McAfee - no issues and then Ad-Aware. It stopped under a file named Viewpoint and would not continue. I looked under Program Files/Viewpoint and found some garbled files (|@$advjnv) totaling over 92 Gb and dates ranging from 1943 to 1984. I attempted to delete them but was not successful under Explorer or under DOS. I then attempted to run Defrag, but it indicated that there were errors that needed to be corrected before running. I ran Scandisk - thorough/surface scan - although it took several hours there were no errors. I then started the defrag process and let it run overnight. We had a temporary power outage - off and then back on - early in the morning which caused the computer to reboot. Well, when it came back on it had an error message - Explorer has caused an invalid page fault in explorer.exe. I tried a recommendation to boot up in Command prompt and rename C:\explorer.exe to explorer.old. It indicated that it could not find it in C:, I then renamed the explorer.exe in C:\Windows. That didn't work either. I decided to reinstall Windows 98 SE over my existing installation. Everything was fine until the final boot. Same explorer.exe error. Then I decided to extract explorer.exe from the CABS file on the CD. Reinstalled Windows again - same explorer.exe error. Left the computer on and came back an hour later and found that it completed booting up with several errors. Closed the errors and Windows is running, but I'm not sure it is without any problems. Any suggestions or thoughts? |
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Explorer.exe error
Have you tried repairing Explorer with its own repair tool?
Alan "Chris" wrote in message ... Reinstalling Windows over an old copy of Windows will not solve your problems. What you should be doing is backing up all of your files from the C: drive and put them onto another partition or drive. Then, format C: and install a fresh copy of Windows. Then reinstall all the drivers and applications...if this does not do the trick, post back. "sheppardwk" wrote in message ... Recently, my 350 MHz AMD K-6 3D Now 2 computer using Win 98 SE has been acting very slow - the mouse hesitates and it takes a few moments to load programs. I have an older computer with 256 RAM and a relatively new (less than a year) Maxtor 40 Gb hard drive (using only 8 Gb) and under System, I have 90% free resources. I ran Spybot - no issues, McAfee - no issues and then Ad-Aware. It stopped under a file named Viewpoint and would not continue. I looked under Program Files/Viewpoint and found some garbled files (|@$advjnv) totaling over 92 Gb and dates ranging from 1943 to 1984. I attempted to delete them but was not successful under Explorer or under DOS. I then attempted to run Defrag, but it indicated that there were errors that needed to be corrected before running. I ran Scandisk - thorough/surface scan - although it took several hours there were no errors. I then started the defrag process and let it run overnight. We had a temporary power outage - off and then back on - early in the morning which caused the computer to reboot. Well, when it came back on it had an error message - Explorer has caused an invalid page fault in explorer.exe. I tried a recommendation to boot up in Command prompt and rename C:\explorer.exe to explorer.old. It indicated that it could not find it in C:, I then renamed the explorer.exe in C:\Windows. That didn't work either. I decided to reinstall Windows 98 SE over my existing installation. Everything was fine until the final boot. Same explorer.exe error. Then I decided to extract explorer.exe from the CABS file on the CD. Reinstalled Windows again - same explorer.exe error. Left the computer on and came back an hour later and found that it completed booting up with several errors. Closed the errors and Windows is running, but I'm not sure it is without any problems. Any suggestions or thoughts? |
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Explorer.exe error
Have you tried repairing Explorer with its own repair tool?
Alan "Chris" wrote in message ... Reinstalling Windows over an old copy of Windows will not solve your problems. What you should be doing is backing up all of your files from the C: drive and put them onto another partition or drive. Then, format C: and install a fresh copy of Windows. Then reinstall all the drivers and applications...if this does not do the trick, post back. "sheppardwk" wrote in message ... Recently, my 350 MHz AMD K-6 3D Now 2 computer using Win 98 SE has been acting very slow - the mouse hesitates and it takes a few moments to load programs. I have an older computer with 256 RAM and a relatively new (less than a year) Maxtor 40 Gb hard drive (using only 8 Gb) and under System, I have 90% free resources. I ran Spybot - no issues, McAfee - no issues and then Ad-Aware. It stopped under a file named Viewpoint and would not continue. I looked under Program Files/Viewpoint and found some garbled files (|@$advjnv) totaling over 92 Gb and dates ranging from 1943 to 1984. I attempted to delete them but was not successful under Explorer or under DOS. I then attempted to run Defrag, but it indicated that there were errors that needed to be corrected before running. I ran Scandisk - thorough/surface scan - although it took several hours there were no errors. I then started the defrag process and let it run overnight. We had a temporary power outage - off and then back on - early in the morning which caused the computer to reboot. Well, when it came back on it had an error message - Explorer has caused an invalid page fault in explorer.exe. I tried a recommendation to boot up in Command prompt and rename C:\explorer.exe to explorer.old. It indicated that it could not find it in C:, I then renamed the explorer.exe in C:\Windows. That didn't work either. I decided to reinstall Windows 98 SE over my existing installation. Everything was fine until the final boot. Same explorer.exe error. Then I decided to extract explorer.exe from the CABS file on the CD. Reinstalled Windows again - same explorer.exe error. Left the computer on and came back an hour later and found that it completed booting up with several errors. Closed the errors and Windows is running, but I'm not sure it is without any problems. Any suggestions or thoughts? |
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