IE keeps making illegal error and closing

[louiedf77]

after a while of browsing and keeping a few IE windows open, my explorer says its making an illegal error and it shuts down. why is it doing this and how can i fix it. it was explorer 5.5. I updated to 6.0 to see if the problem was got fixed, but it didnt. help!

[rangeral]

What OS are you using? I'm guessing 98.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Start>Run>SFC, restore any missing DLL's

also try a repair uninstall of IE... and if this fails.. Download a browser called phoenix or opera.. much better than orrible IE IMO ne ways

--Jakk

[louiedf77]

i'm using winME, i should just shoot it right? SFC is covered.

[Baddog]

What are your system specs and how much ram do you have? Next what does the error say?

[germanjulian]

reinstall?! propably lol!
kazza crashed my machine when running! restored a HD image (3 weeks old) and everything works fine. even though i completly reinstalled kazza and cleaned my hd and deleted all the stuff in the registry but it still didnt help! sometimes it gotta be reinstall

[AllGamer]

Originally posted by louiedf77
i'm using winME, i should just shoot it right? SFC is covered.

just forget IE completely and go Opera / Mozilla

[chaser_22]

I'd reinstall IE.

Have had similar problems since I've used Win ME.
Don't know exactly what's wrong but after a reinstall it usually works fine.
I think some files get corrupt and the files just need to be replaced.

[Ammok]

My IE keeps crashing in XP, fully updated. Not a problem,just very annoying, closing the window and re-launching.

Cheap crud.

[AllGamer]

see why M$ products sucks so much? LOL

[Bovon]

Having tried NetScrape and Opera (pretty good) I keep returning to IE. I like IE, and I know it will work just fine. The problem 99% of the time is other apps screwing with IE...like Norton AV (even NU will at times.)

I have been having some of the same crashes recently...not just IE, but other applictions as well. I was so convienced it was a defective ram module... I ordered a new module. That didn't help. I *may* have just discovered the problem, but it will take a few days to be sure. I have Zone Alarm Plus now... (I never had a problem with the freebie version, but had a he**ova time getting this Plus version going)

About an hour ago, IE crashed with invalid page faults and stack dumps ect...so did Outlook Express. I just happened to remember Z/A causing some simular headaches during the inital setup. I took Z/A out of msconfig statrtup and rebooted. So far, no further crashes...but as I said, it will take several bootups to see if its working. After I go online, it seems to be ok to load (manually) Z/A...I'm keeping this in my mind as well.
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Below, is something a friend sent me...and may be of some value to someone here reading this thread. I have been able to trouble shoot my system some better by referring to this site in the past.


EXPLORER.EXE has caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 015f:04500018

Don't worry if you don't understand anything of this
purely technical information, but there is one important bit here that can give you an
indication of what is going wrong: the 'address' of the crash. The address is the
location in your computer memory where the crash occurred, in this example 015f:04500018. If this address keeps returning, there may well be something wrong with the RAM. (In that case, invalid page faults would also be caused in modules other than kernel32.dll.) To test the memory, you could insert a command line in your Config.sys file, located on your primary drive (usually C:\). Simply open this file in Notepad and insert:

device=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:ON

The next time you boot, you could get a message
that HIMEM has detected unreliable memory at a certain address, and this address
could be the same as the one in your error messages. Maybe this detection will not
happen immediately, it could take a few days, or it may never happen, in spite of an
actual memory fault.

For what it's worth, we can tell you the following about the rest of the 'details':
- Registers: values of the register of the processor at the moment of the crash.
- Bytes in CS:EIP: value of the current instruction.
- Stack dump: the route that caused the program to crash.

Technical support services will be interested in this data, so write them down if you get
repeated error messages that look more or less identical.

REMEMBER:
Most kernel32.dll errors are NOT caused by a corruption of the kernel32.dll module. If
it's always the same program or application that causes the invalid page fault, you should do something about that program or application (e.g. uninstall and reinstall) and not concern yourself with kernel32.dll.
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Regards,
Bud Allen
http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/
Bud's Win95 Win98 Tips and Troubleshooter

[Cluedo]

my explorer says its making an illegal error

Copy and post the exact error message. That would help.

If you don't have TweakUI installed, then download it from here and use the option to enable error log reporting. That way if the lock-up is bad enough to keep you from manually copying/saving the error, it will still make a copy in the error log file.