98 (FE), 98 SP1, 98 SE + ME SHELL32.DLL fix

[CyberyogiCoWindler]

I just want to make you know that while the SHELL98D has fixed nasty Explorer bugs in Win98SE, it has introduced a nasty new one.

When I drag and drop files between 2 Explorer windows (e.g. for copying saved E-Mail text files to diskette), Explorer often crashes so deep that it can not be restarted anymore. Any attempt of restarting Explorer or even selecting things from the quicklaunch menu pops up the same crash requester and restarts the taskbar. The only way to make Windoze useable again is to shutdown using CTRL-ALT-DEL, because also "shutdown" from quicklaunch only re-triggers the popup.

FineSSE displayed the following register contents:

Unhandled Eception in
Process Id: fffcd92f
Thread Id:   fff0d563

ExceptionCode:   c0000005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION)
ExceptionAddress: bfb93c65

Registers:
 EAX=002a005c CS=024f EIP=bff99b32 EFLAGS=00000246
 EBX=0059fba0 SS=0257 ESP=0059fb48 EBP=0059fb80
 ECX=ecbd3670 DS=0257        ESI=00000000  FS=357f
 EDX=bffc9490 ES=0257 EDI=e82897e0 GS=0000

Bytes at CS EIP:
  66 8B 39 66  8B 18 D1 EF  D1 EB 66 81  E7 EF 3D 66

Exiting after:
 0 Illegal Instructions
 1 Access Violation

(I had to type this in from a digicam photo since Windows in crashed state refuses to start anything to save it from clipboard to, but only restarts the popup. I hope I made no typos.)

Edited March 7, 2011 by CyberyogiCoWindler

[dencorso]

You need, at least, RLoew's KERNEL32 2GiB Seek Bug Patch, too.

Get it at his site. But you should PM him, in case you wish the German version.