Roger, There's not telling what all was removed. You can try system file checker, if no help, reinstall Windows, if no help, format and install. Jeff -- Intrepid Video TV/VCR Repair www.intrepid-video.com www.tech-repair.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Carnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 4:22 PM Subject: PCWorks: Error message
Hello, My son-in-law's (Ben's) computer is bringing up an error message upon boot-up that I'm looking for help with. First, a bit of background. The machine is a Pent. III ......550mhz that came from Gateway. It has Win 98, 1st ed. installed. Ben has been letting his buddies use the machine for awhile. It seems downloading everything is their hobby. In short, according to them, they thought the machine was corrupted with spyware and started deleting it. Evidently they deleted too much of something and they've lost internet access, the machine will also lock up periodicly. I get it now after its no use to them to try to clean up the mess. It will boot up normally and go to the desktop and show the icons. Some of the programs are still active, MS suite, Norton, Nero, open and appear to work. The error box in the middle of the screen has "Explorer" in the title bar. The message is "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." The details of the message are as follows: EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module WKOCK32.DLL at 0177:10017d00. Registers: EAX=01427c44 CS=0177 EIP=10017d00 EFLGS=00010246 EBX=00000000 SS=017f ESP=0141f82c EBP=01427c78 ECX=01427c44 DS=017f ESI=00000003 FS=253f EDX=006b6e6c ES=017f EDI=00000000 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 8b 02 3a 01 75 2e 0a c0 74 26 3a 61 01 75 25 0a Stack dump: ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
