I've been having a whole lot of trouble with Illegal Operations in Explorer a whole lot more than usual...it's just happened again, and it had this to say under details:
EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0177
kern32 is a ****. my recommendation is to reinstall windows, and to try and keep the amount of programs running at one time to a minimum. and try not to install a lot of things and then uninstall them. when i was doing this for a while, all of the files that these programs left behind bogged down my system and i would get random crashes all of the time.
routinely run scandisk and defrag and reinstall windows. you should be set.
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Before going through the trouble of doing a re-install, check http://support.microsoft.com, and do a search through the Knowledge Base.
Perhaps they have something in there about your system configuration that we're not aware of.
I do agree with Fin that a periodic reinstall of Windows is a good thing. It usually does a good job of cleaning out the registry and old, unused DLLs. As a result, you get a much faster system out of the process. The downside is that it's a PITA to get everything back the way you like it.
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how so? i dont delete windows and then reinstall it, i just do a reinstall over my existing copy. it retains most of my settings while fixing a lot of stuff that is messed up..
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Fin> Doing it your way doesn't do anything to clean out the registry or get rid of unwanted DLL files. All it's doing is resetting a lot of settings.
If it were cleaning out your registry, you would have to reinstall most of your applications because their respective registry entries would no longer be present.
Also, MS no longer recommends using your method, as it leaves all of the unwanted junk, which could cause conflicts.
As JH said, the best way to get the desired effect is to backup your data, wipe the drive clean by formatting, and installing a fresh, clean install of Windows. While this gives you the fastest system possible, it carries the side effect of requiring you to reinstall all of your applications.
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I'd forgotten about this thread. Thanks for all your advice - I wouldn't have a clue how to reinstall Windows, so I'm in no hurry to do it, but I might have to eventually.
PIT> The actual process of reinstalling Windows isn't that difficult. It's the steps of preparing to do so that's a PITA.
Just reinstalling Windows simply requires a few basic steps:
Create a Windows Startup Disk
Backup your data
Boot from the Startup disk
Format your hard drive
Run Setup.exe from the Windows CD-ROM
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If you have a bootable CD (some are, some aren't), you could even skip steps 1 and 3 and just pop the CD in the drive and boot your computer from the disk.
But keep in mind that, once you format and reinstall, you're going to have to manually set things like network settings, dial-up connection settings, application settings (they'll all have to be reinstalled), sound and appearance settings, wallpapers, etc.
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I think I've reinstalled Windows 7 or 8 times in the past 6 months (don't ask...)
I don't mind too much, except my computer doesn't like to boot off the CD-ROM drive, so I have to start the install off the floppies, and that takes forever.
I kinda like starting from scratch at least once a year, though.
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hermanm> It depends. Booting Win9x from floppy takes almost no extra time, since you only have to wait for the command line to come up. Maybe it takes 3-4 more minutes.
Installing Win2k from floppy is an entirely different story. Add in roughly 30 minutes to the process if you're installing from floppy, since it literally has to load a Win2k CLI image from 4 floppy disk. So essentially, once you install the floppies, you have a basic Win2k OS ready to go, but the only thing it's really ready to do is install Win2k. So, after loading all of the files from the floppy image, you still have to copy all of the files from the CD-ROM. Major PITA.
I did 3 Win2k installs this week, and it's significantly easier when you can boot off of the CD-ROM.
With Win9x, it's not nearly as inconvenient. One really can't equate the two. Apples and Oranges.
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Yeah, I meant installing from floppy. Once I get to a certain point it will install off the CD-ROM, but that's about 40 minutes into it. Yick.
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Precisely.
With Win9x, it's totally different, since they don't have to put down an OS image. They just boot off the floppy to DOS, and that's all that's required to get it to the point where you can install from CD-ROM.
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dd's way you would, yeah. what you'd do is slick your hard drive completely clean and start all over. it would certainly solve your problem, but it seems like killing a fly with a bazooka - i would probably just put up with illegal operations.
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mj> It depends on how you look at it, and which is the greater inconvenience.
For me, replacing software is much easier and less inconvenient than dealing with constant program crashes.
Of course, I took the precaution of saving all of my installation files to a shared network directory, but that's simple planning on my part.
Still, I don't see how getting rid of pesky application and OS crashes is "like killing a fly with a bazooka", but I like the analogy.
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PIT> Is this a self-built, or small shop built system, or is this a pre-built (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc.)?
If it's a pre-built, and Corel came with it, then they usually give you the requisite disks to restore the system to factory condition, including all of the software that came on it.
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PIT, it really depends, as far as reinstalling your other software...I've reinstalled Windows a few times onto a second hard drive, and then just moved things over later. That worked pretty well with most of my stuff, although a few things needed to be reinstalled fresh. What sorta stuff do you have that you can't get back? Maybe someone might be able to, um, help you out with that, not that we would do or advocate doing anything illegal
DD, I keep all my installation files in a special directory as well. It really helps for those of us like me who like to reinstall fairly often, and then also have to reinstall whether they like it or not sometimes too
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