Internet Explorer 6.0 keeps crashing

[Help Me Please]

I'm running Windows 98 (Second Edition) and I recently
downloaded IE 6.0 and now I keep getting this Error
message: 'This program has performed an illegal operation
and will be shut down.
The details show this:

EXPLORER caused a general protection fault
in module USER.EXE at 0003:00001022.
Registers:
EAX=000046ef CS=1797 EIP=00001022 EFLGS=00000246
EBX=000012dc SS=46ef ESP=00008c22 EBP=01508c40
ECX=000146ef DS=46ef ESI=00008c4c FS=38af
EDX=00010118 ES=46ef EDI=0150fed4 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff 5e 08 b9 9f 16 8e c1 59 5b 83 f9 0f 74 2e 81
Stack dump:
000d0670 0118ffff 0118043c 169f043c 0150fed4 00008c7c
02a00118 8c7c02a5 16bf392d 12dc0001 043c0000 ffff0118
000012dc 00000670 01630066 043c0000

What is causing this problem? How can I fix this?
I hope someone can give me an answer.

Thanks,

Help Me Please

 

[Guest]

It's not Internet Explorer, it's Explorer. Explorer is the window that you
use to browse your computer. It's basically an IE cousin. Explorer is also
the program that runs your computer (Windows). If you open your task manager
(ctrl-alt-delete) and end the Explorer.exe task then you will notice Windows
reset and come back online with a few icons missing in the system tray.

Ok, so now to your problem. After reading your question it looks like the
issue is your operating system. You have Windows 98. All of the technical
hexidecimal numbers below USER.EXE are memory addresses that the program
USER.EXE was using. What probably happened was USER.EXE was already sitting
in your memory, all happy, and then EXPLORER.EXE wrote itself on top of
USER.EXE. In Windows 98 this happens a lot. It's like two people sitting in
the same spot at the same time, occupying the same space, it's just not
possible. One or both of them have to die. This is what Windows 98 does. It
just kills everything.

The fix. Reinstall or repair Windows 98 (format and reinstall is the best
bet). See if any drivers are out of date or need to be reinstalled (drivers
can cause problems sometimes). Upgrade to Windows 2000 or XP, they don't have
the memory issues like 98.

 

[Den]

The same thing was happening to me, a lot of IE crashing.
I finally found the problem. I had bad RAM at about 815-
840MB, on the second 512 stick. I found this out by
running: "memtest86", a free download. Then I fixed it
with "Run: msconfig,and then BOOT.INI, ADvanced, and then
set MAX/MEM at 815, thereby blocking off anything above
815MB. Then I rebooted. Since then I've had no problem
with crashes. Maybe it will help you.
Den