From: home@away.com   
      
   On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:18:49 GMT, "T-bone"  wrote:   
      
   >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.   
   Boot to DOS (command line) mode and try to restore the registry from   
   there.  Enter   
   scanreg /restore   
   at the prompt.  Then choose last registry saved before the troubles.   
      
   PS Suggest you post in alt.windows98 rather than this group   
      
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