Under windows 98(1st ed) From my desktop or any drive/folderwindow, right click, then pop-up menu appears, hold cursor over 'New' then explorer error! EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module SHDOC401.DLL at 0177:50023c3f. Registers: EAX=00438be4 CS=0177 EIP=50023c3f EFLGS=00010206 EBX=00000000 SS=017f ESP=0059eaf8 EBP=00656d61 ECX=81919c4c DS=017f ESI=bff772fc FS=3347 EDX=00430000 ES=017f EDI=80000000 GS=32ae Bytes at CS:EIP: 89 45 f8 74 67 6a 43 8b f8 59 8d 85 b8 fc ff ff Stack dump: 0043571c 00000104 00007800 00000000 000000b6 00000001 0059eb00 70fe21f8 00432cac 00000001 0059eb30 0000011f 00432cac 00000000 00000000 0059eb54 Or in Dr. Watson Shell Doc Object and Control Library - IE 4.01 compat attempted to write to memory that does not exist or is read-only. It may be using an uninitialized variable, or it may be attempting to access memory after having freed it. Module Name: SHDOC401.DLL Description: Shell Doc Object and Control Library - IE 4.01 compat Version: 5.50.4522.1800 Product: Microsoft(R) Windows (R) 2000 Operating System Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation Application Name: Explorer.exe Description: Windows Explorer Version: 4.72.3110.1 Product: Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R) Operating System Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation I have tried repair tool for Internet Explorer 5.5, and tried reverting to pervious internet explorer - both dont work. Thanks for any help

That's MS Explorer not Internet Explorer. Try a Win98 reinstall

Thanks for the reply, I have Win98 clean installed, so how do i reinstall it? without formatting!

Just like a clean install, only without the format. You won't lose anything.

Cheers again Just to make this clear before i do it, i just stick in the win98 CD, and install again, under windows? or from startup?