Hello, I have a major problem with Windows'98 that I need to sort out as soon a possible! Windows '98 no longer boots fully, instead showing the following requester before the icons and taskbar usually appear: "Explorer caused an Invalid Page Fault in module Explorer.exe at 017f:00401f31" Now, this has happened to me twice in the past 3 days - it first happened when I attempted to remove the 3dfx reference drivers for my Voodoo 2 card, and revert to my Creative Labs Voodoo 2 drivers, but in the process, when asked if I wanted to keep newer versions of DLL files, I must have opted to overwrite them with older versions. :/ The first time this Invalid Page Fault appeared, I managed to restore my system by reinstalling Windows '98 from my CD, by reinstalling over my existing installation a couple of times, but this did not solve the problem. So, I tried installing '98 into a new directory called "Win98", and that worked fine, but of course, I would then have to reinstall all my existing programs again. So, after a lot of messing about, I decided to uninstall the new copy of '98 and revert to my existing installation, but this Invalid Page Fault still appeared. I tried a final install of '98 over my existing installation again, and somehow, this fixed the problem - Windows '98 started working again. But, yesterday, I reinstalled my original Voodoo 2 drivers, but wanted to reinstall the reference drivers, because a few game demos were acting funny, i.e. exiting for no reason... So, I reinstalled the 3dfx reference drivers, but that didn't seem to help, so I attempted to remove them again, but in the process, when Windows asked me if I wanted to overwrite a couple of existing DLL files with older versions, I said "Yes"... I rebooted, and then Windows '98's Explorer began showing that Invalid Page Fault... :( I have attempted to reinstall Windows '98 several times today, without success... Please, I am tearing my hair out with frustration - and am unable to access my files via Windows... The DLL's in question were COMCTL32.DLL and some DLL to do with Rich Text. Also, whenever I reinstalled Windows '98, during Setup updating my system settings, I kept getting the following errors: "An error occured loading "c:\windows\system\ shdocvw.dll..." Also, the same error appears for "shdoc401.dll", but twice? If anyone can assist me with my problem, I will be grateful! Many thanks, Jon.

clean re-install is want you need. If your video card is a pci try moving it to a different slot. Also run Regscan(sic) in the dos. and msconfig in the start/run windows. disabling any drv. that are failing.

I now have exactly the same problem.. HELP how did you fix it???

Delete explorer.exe, shdocvw.dll, shdoc401.dll and comctl32.dll from windows first (some in windows dir, some in windows/system). The re-install win 98 - voila, a working system??

Sir My operating will not let me delete explorer.exe while it is running. I also tried renaming it also which microsoft has told me to do but nothing I am at my wits end I keep getting the same response about an Invalid page fault please help. George camiolo

I ahev this same gay frickin problem, and it cost me 6 hrs yesterday :( well.....I am goin to try and delete those file like you previosuly said, THANKS

Have tried everything to eliminate random (but all too frequent) invalid page faults when using windows explorer - always referred back to SHELL32.DLL. No problems with my old, reliable reinstalled File Manager, though. Any ideas, please?