From: mis@take.net   
      
   After only 1 week with no problems, I am not getting apparent unrecoverable   
   explorer crashes [windows 98 se].   
   Just did a fresh install on a brand new hard drive and got my daughters   
   computer up and running, on a network with internet connection, ready for   
   school.   
   Last night I transferred a bunch of guns n roses video clips from my computer   
   to hers.   
   The player installed on her machine, bs player, played sound but no video.   
   So I installed Divx 5, which played them fine.   
   So I tried to associate the files with divx, in the 'opens with' dialod   
   checking the 'always use the progam' box.   
   No dice, and bs player kept opening them.   
   So I uninstalled bs player, then icons stopped functioning.   
   Click on a folder or program, nothing.   
   So I restart, and it booted normally, signed into the network, then explorer   
   crashes before anything loads.   
   Says 'Explorer cause an invalid page fault in module explorer.exe. at   
   olaf:00yo1f31'.   
   I've been down this road before [but sure didn't expect it so soon after a   
   fresh install].   
   Tried letting scandisc run, same crash.   
   So I booted into safe mode, and much to my shock, explorer crashes there too.   
   After the crash, the wallpaper comes up, mouse pointer functions but nothing   
   will load.   
   The only keys that have an effect, predictably, is ctrl/alt/del.   
   So here I am, 1 week after a fresh install, being beset by the friggin   
   windows gremlin.   
   Anything to be done besides yet another fresh install ?   
   I've never had a situation where windows wouldn't boot in safe mode.   
   Seems the registry is corrupt, and I do have a backup on the HD, but windows   
   won't start to let me correct it.   
   Is there anything on a startup disc that could help ?   
   I'm at a loss, and feel like throwing this machine off a viaduct.   
   I would install XP on it, but its a P2 333 and doubt if it could handle it.   
      
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