Illegal notice

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Ari Lukumies wrote:
>
> smu...@erols.com wrote:
> >
> > I am receiving the following notice when I try to use Notepad,
Explorer,
> > Netscape and several other programs:
> > "This program has performed and illegal operation and will be shut
down.
> > If the problem persists contact the vendor".
> >
> > It occurs not just in one program, but many. What is causing this
> > situation?
>
> Usually it's the result of installing some brain-dead program that wrote
> over one or more DLLs other programs use with different versions of
> them. You might try rerunning the setup from the Win CD. It usually (I'm
> not sure if this is in an OEM release only) contains a selection (when
> it finds out that Win is already installed) to 'repair a corrupted
> installation'. That helped in my dad's PC a while back, anyway.
>
> AriL
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