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Starbuck
December 1st, 2003, 10:29 AM
Hello;

I'm having an intermediate problem which only happens occasionally on start-up, but is getting very annoying and happening more frequently now.

When I boot the computer and enter Win98, it somtimes comes up with a message box stating an illegial operation has occured in the System Tray and will be shut down, or somthing like that. Then, I click on Close, (to close the Box), and a few seconds later, another Dialog box comes up and states, " explorer has caused an illegal opperation, and will be shut down, or something like that. I then click on the close icon and wait for win98 to finish and the Hardrive to stop.

The funny thing is that the background .bmp file works ok, and the program Icons still appear on my desk top, but the system tray does not finish loading all the start-up programs.

I then click on the Start/Shut Down button and when the computer states, " it is ok to turn off your computer message, I then hit the reboot button on my Computer case and it boots back into windows, and everything comes up allright after that. Can anyone tell me whats going on. Thanks in advance and God's Speed...

*** Starbuck ***

tb525
December 1st, 2003, 10:32 AM
Hi Starbuck,
Let's see what is loading at startup, Download 'Hijack This!'. Unzip, doubleclick HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan".
When the scan is finished, click "Save Log", and copy and paste it in a reply.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip

bg703
December 2nd, 2003, 07:35 PM
I had the same problem with an Athlon XP 1800+. The problem was tha the system shut down too fast for the operating system. Microsoft has a patch on their site to rectify this, but it has been so long since I had thye problem, I can't tell you exactly where it is. If you can locate the patch it will likely solve your problem.

Starbuck
December 4th, 2003, 08:50 AM
I had the same problem with an Athlon XP 1800+. The problem was tha the system shut down too fast for the operating system. Microsoft has a patch on their site to rectify this, but it has been so long since I had thye problem, I can't tell you exactly where it is. If you can locate the patch it will likely solve your problem.

Thank you for the info. I didn't think of that one. I will try to search Microsoft's data base and see if I can find anything relating to this problem, to resolve the situation. Again thanks...

*** Starbuck ***