This JUST cropped up. Never had it before. Outlook Express starts up fine, but when it starts to download a message, I get an error message ("this program has performed an illegal function...") and the details:

MSIMN caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff74347.
Registers:
EAX=00000001 CS=0167 EIP=bff74347 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=0156d020 EBP=0156d03c
ECX=00000008 DS=016f ESI=01f1ad50 FS=4fff
EDX=01560801 ES=016f EDI=00000008 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
0f c1 01 40 c2 04 00 83 01 00 6a 01 51 68 59 00
Stack dump:
01c8b4e9 00000008 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0156d098 01c8b2f0 01f1ae40 00000001 00000000 0156d0b0 01f1ae40 0156d0b0 0156d0b0

I can't use my Outlook Express and get my mail because of this. It worked fine this afternoon. Now, all of a sudden....

does anyone have any definitive suggestions on how to deal with this?

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q225/2/54.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=Causes%20fault%20in%20kernel32.dll&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=OEX

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Try choice 2 .

W95 you have 3 choices . With W98 , if you have IE5.1 or higher & you
still have IE4 installed the following applies . No IE4 only 2 choices .
IE5.5 if over the top of 5.1 , offers 3 choices .

You can install IE5.1 straight over 4 . A big feature with IE5 is that
it can be repaired without uninstalling . Here is how to do it . Open
Control Panel , Add / Remove , click on Microsoft Internet Explorer ,
then click on add / remove down the bottom . This opens a window with
3 choices .

No Microsoft Internet Explorer in Control Panel !
Start>Run , key in msinfo32 and press Enter . Click on Tools>
IE Repair Tool .

Choice 1. Add , insert your IE5 install program & you can find other
items you may not have installed 1st time .

Choice 2. Repair , fixes problems that may crop up with IE5 / Outlook

Choice 3. If unfixable , removes IE5 & goes back to IE4 , now if you
want to you can reinstall IE5 or a later version or another browser
altogether .

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q194/1/77.ASP
http://help.earthlink.net/techsupport/xmldocs/windows_9x_nt/browsers/ie_5.0/1680.help.html

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Go back to a good copy of the registry .
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/regback1.html