Greetings. Got myself a little problem that I cannot seem to fix. Yesterday, when I opened Solitaire, I received the following error message: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor. SOL caused a general protection fault in module USER.exe at 0012:00000455. Registers: EAX=00000001 CS=1747 EIP=00000455 EFLGS=00000202 EBX=000200db SS=221f ESP=00001464 EBP=00001472 ECX=00000000 DS=16c7 ESI=000200dc FS=0000 EDX=00002167 ES=2167 EDI=00000075 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 26 8a 07 2a e4 8b f8 8b c1 49 0b c0 75 ea 8b 5e Stack dump: bd14221f 2166221e 02d90000 14822167 137f063e 14a600fe 0006221f 14f8221e 199f1441 14a60066 221ebd14 643a14a6 02260772 4f4d0047 14ce05cf 17bf4dfb I also received this error when I tried to open FreeCell: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor. FREECELL caused a general protection fault in module FREECELL.exe at 0001:00003de2. Registers: EAX=00030000 CS=19a7 EIP=00003de2 EFLGS=00000246 EBX=01570002 SS=199f ESP=00001cb8 EBP=00001cbc ECX=00038201 DS=199f ESI=00000312 FS=21bf EDX=8178a8d4 ES=0123 EDI=00000312 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: ff 1e 06 03 1e c5 16 5a 02 b8 00 25 2e f7 06 3c Stack dump: 00003db9 3add1cc2 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 1cec1ce1 1ce0000a 00001da4 1d1c1ce1 00000000 1ce00005 I have tried to fix this problem by uninstalling and reinstalling the games, disabling my firewall/antivirus software (Norton Internet Security 2004) and by manually extracting the games from the Windows CD. I am 90% sure that there is no spyware on the computer, including the Bonzi Buddy program. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this problem? I am running Windows 98 (not SE). Both minesweeper and MSHearts work fine. Also, just as an alternative, does anyone know where I could download programs similar to these two that are completely free? Thanks.

If you're using a pop-up stopper type program disable it. Also some logitech and Microsoft Intellitype mouse drivers have caused such problems. I'm not sure about the logitech drivers file names but if you're using Microsoft Intellitype Mouse Drivers do a Alt/Ctrl/Del and End Task or Process for pointer32.exe and see if that corrects the problem. Tufenuf

Nope, I have neither the logitech or Microsoft drivers installed.

The FreeCell and Solitaire games are included in the MS Entertainment Packs 1-4. Download here Cheers & Happy Holidays sunrayweb

Tech_Wiz02, This is just a WAG but even though you turned off your firewall there may be a setting in there somewhere that needs to be changed (possibly don't allow pop-ups/pictures etc.). I'm not familiar with the NIS Program and this is just a possibility. Tufenuf

Thanks for the link. Ok, heres an update. I uninstalled Norton Internet Security and both FreeCell and Solitaire work ok. But now, just as I logged onto AOL, Solitare crashed and gave the error that I mentioned above. Any ideas? Thanks. Tech_Wiz02

I am having the same problems with freecell as well and it all started after installing Norton System Works 2004. It happens on 2 of 3 win98SE machines. I must say I am not impressed with the 2004 version of NSW. Three installs (3 legal copies) and all had/have problems. I I had to reinstall MSI installer before I could get it installed. And to top it all off Symantec wants to charge you for support, possibly even for install issues that are not "their fault"