I tried to use my scanner and the program Photo Deluxe will not open when I click on the program i get an error message that says Shell 32.dll lionked to missing export Shlwapi.dll:shreg get Us Value A. What is this and how can I fix it. I can use the scanner to scan and copy something but I can't...

Cannot get rid of a Illegal Operation window. I've ran Norton, Spyware, etc. - restarted - but it keep appearing. I've listed below the message in the window. Thanks in advance for any help. Musictec EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module SHELL32.DLL at 0187:7fcb3d96.

When I right click the C: drive, I get an error message that states "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor." Well, this is Exploring and it also happens with the window after double clicking "My Computer" and right...

Hi to all, batch file launched by desktop shortcut (WinNT, win2000 e WinXp). Its task is to do some elaboration if and only if some processes are inactive, that is if the user had first stopped the application. Is that possible inside a batch file? I know executable's names (the same appeared into...

My old Win98SE machine has frozen up one too many times, and gotten the "power-off" treatment one too many times (apparently) and now the graphic-interface boots up, but I just get the mouse cursor and the Desktop background color -- no Taskbar, no Icons, no other evidence of a Windows interface...

Hi there, I seem to be having a problem trying to get the folder list on the LHS of Explorer to remain collapsed. For example, if I expand Windows\System by clicking on the + icon in the folder tree, then try to collapse it again by clicking on the - icon, the folder re-expands. This seems to be...

If I have already launched a particular application by clicking an associated file type, how do I prevent a second instance of this application being launched when I click on a second file of the same type? For example, I have just switched from Adobe's Acrobat Reader to Foxit's PDF reader....

I recently had some registry errors with win98. Started up and had some corrupted registy entries. I fixed what I could (Install the programs that went missing) but now when I right click my computer and select explore, my folder's tree on the left frame is blank and greyed out. The main frame...

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Upon start up I get the following error message: Explorer: This program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down. Explorer caused an illegal page fault in module explorer.exe at 015f:00401f31 Registers eax=00000000 cs=015f etc etc.

hi, can u help me please... ill like to know if i can erase freely the contents inside the "c:\windows\applog" folder can i? also what other information inside the windows directory could be wipe in a safe way? i know that *.gid, *.tmp, *.bak can be deleted... what others can go out?

Anybody know what is causing a window with not found for the above file? What program is it from? Occurs at start up, started appearing recently. No new software added. Any help appreciated, tried other places on web, just get referred to different registry diags programs.

Greetings. Everytime I boot up windows I get this error message and it keeps appearing until the computer crashes. I would like to know what to do besides re-installing the operative system. Thank you.

Hi. Im trying to connect my modem and make it ring a number using a program and sending the serial IO the next strings: ATE0V1H ... Initialize modem AT &F &C1 &D2 &Q5 &K0 S46=0 ... Initialize modem ATDT ... Dial number AT Z H0 ... Hang up well, they seem to be correct but I cant just make the

First of all a sincere thanks to the people that has answer to my question :) Ok, Im trying again with this but I cant really monitor the modem activity... how can I do this... Im using an application named Instant.EXE 2.0 to send the parameters I mentioned you the last time... what Im really...

I'm writing a script that captures the return code from a command EXE file and acts according to the code. I have a variable called intErr that captures the exit code from the command: intErr = objShell.Run(" %comspec% /C mycommand" , 9, True) The code works well in Win2K and XP, but it doesn't...

My dad has an old laptop running win98. Whenever it boots up it gives the error: While intializing device VKD: Windows Protection Error. Press any key to reboot. It then gives him the menu options to boot into safe mode etc. The only mode it will succesfully boot into is DOS mode - won't let...

Try to help a kid that "just deleted a few files" to try and free-up some disk space. The computer continued to work after the delete actions, but when she rebooted, during Win98 start-up the following error came up: "Can't start explorer, file c:\windows\system\msvcrt.dll is missing'. I also...

I can't open program and have error "A required DLL file, OLEACC.DLL was not found" How I clean problem? Thank you.

Hello, I've come across a shell problem that I've never seen in any vs. of Windows. I need some help, a few good lnternet links for Windows Explorer. I have Googled, but unsuccessful to connect w/any helpful info. This is what happens... TOTAL lockup of Windows Explorer, UNABLE to...