explorer.exe error while startup

[shirazi]

Hello,

When I load up my win98se and logging to my profile or any other profile I get explorer.exe error in module explorer, and then it shuts down, and I can not activate my windows (also in safe mode)????????????????????????????

Help me?????????????

[jasinwa]

have you done anything inbetween the last session and shutdown?

Guess I would:

1. Start in DOS mode

2. perform a scandisk /autofix to let your pc check the hard drive in DOS.....see if it's clean. If you want to be prompted on any error, then don't do the /autofix....

3. I would then do scanreg and let the registry get cleaned up in DOS mode.

Then reboot and if no luck:

go back to DOS mode, try scanreg /restore and restore the session from the day you had the problem....(e.g if a problem happened today, you could restore this AM or yesterday's registry)

Then see....

Otherwise, you may need to reinstall W98...which is easy enough...

[DiGGiTY]

I'd take the above advice first, and if that doesn't work, write down the exact error you get and search support.microsoft.com for it.

There are several instances where a single .dll file is messed up and needs to be replaced from the original .CAB file

[arvindK]

Last time I had a similar problem, it turned out to be a faulty RAM. So get yourself "memtest" and run a through test. It runs of a floppy too.