Computer Godz: "This program has performed an illegal function......

Factual Questions
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…and will be shut down", is appearing more and more often and when I hit CLOSE it takes me to a stark white page which is named ACTIVE DESKTOP RECOVERY. When I click on RECOVER MY DESKTOP, I get everything back to normal until the next time.

I am running W98SE on an IBM clone with Pentium II Cel400 with 128 MB of RAM. Is there a fix y’all can receommend?

Thanks

Quasi

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I have always found Active Desktop to be pain. Try a normal desktop and see if that helps. Right-click on your desktop, select “properties”, click the “web” tab, and deselect “Show Web content on my Active Desktop”. (That’s how to do it on my system; may be slightly different on yours).

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Is it explorer that is performing the illegal function? That sounds like the symptomology of an explorer crash. If so, there could be a thousand reasons for it. Have you run windows update recently?

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I always assumed that it meant that Microsoft was alerting the FBI that I was downloading porn.

Tris

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Arent there any details when you get that message? It should indicate what program its
having an argument with.

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Thanks, y’all. I tried Manduck’s suggestion and ran a Microsoft Update and downloaded a new security package, and generally updated some other stuff, and it hasn’t happened again. I’ve been busy on the computer with one of my forums since I posted the question, so maybe it is fixed.

To answer one of the other questions, sometimes instead of going straight to the Active Desktop Recovery page, there is another pop-up which tells me that “Internet Explorer will now close”, but that happened maybe once out of every five times when it was acting up.

Thanks again for the help!

Quasi