Microsoft Internet Explorer has encountered an error and needs to close

[Raymond]

I don't know what happened but this error message keeps popping up whenever
I try to launch IE6! IE6 eventually does come up but the message keeps
repeating about every minute or so or if I click on a link.

I'm running Windows 98 SE. Can someone help me?

Here is the error. I appreciate you help with trying to understand this and
what must I do to correct the problem.

IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in
module SHELL32.DLL at 016f:66801af2.
Registers:
EAX=000102fb CS=016f EIP=66801af2 EFLGS=00010216
EBX=00520358 SS=0177 ESP=0064cfec EBP=0064d008
ECX=0000ffff DS=0177 ESI=0043469c FS=5dc7
EDX=00444995 ES=0177 EDI=ffffffff GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 0a 66 85 c9 75 f1 c2 04 00 83 7c 24 04 00
Stack dump:
66801ab9 0043469c ffffffff 711641f8 711692ea 0043469c 00000000 0064d040
71165388 0064e160 0064e160 711641e8 00520358 0064e160 00000000 00000000

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
One possible fix is to delete the Temporary Internet Files (TIF) folder and
the History folder. See the instructions at
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

Other possibilities at http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm#shell32

Less likely to help, but check for spyware/parasites with CWShredder and
Ad-aware. http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
If this helps: From Control Panel> Internet Options> Advanced> uncheck
"Enable third party
browser extensions" the problem likely is being caused by another program-
possibly malware.

Hope this helps,
Don