Run AdAware and Spybot and see if anything comes up.

Do you play online games, eg bridge ?

Message Edited by maxd on 11-20-2004 03:51 PM

I don't appreciate what the offset error signifies in crashing explorer so don't have a brilliant answer. Do you have any programs/driver that have a version of msvcrt.dll running when explorer crashes ?

If so, prevent it from running using the msconfig command and uncheck it under the Startup tab. You may want to run the SFC to replace any deleted/quarantined system files. The command from Start/Run is:

sfc /scannow (note space)

If you are familiar with registry editing change the value of sfcdisable from 0 to 4. Do this only if when running this command you get a prompt to insert your XP cd. In which case press "Cancel".

Do you follow this ?

Hi...

Not sure if this will help, but here are couple of links (you might have to C&P)

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/thanks.asp http://www.duke.edu/~dhewitt/tutorials/explorer/explor.html

Also, if you're using windows explore/internet explorer I'd consider downloading Mozilla/Firefox their browser is awsome.

Good luck either way, ~S

Thank you for  your suggestion, but it did not work.  The same problem exists!

Do you get this in Safe Mode ?

As another user ?

Do you have Kazaa or other file-sharing program installed ?

You've done a full AV scan ?

Have you disabled the XP firewall ?

Go offline and disable all startups, reboot. Any difference ?

When you do a search on your computer for that file, what other programs (eg printer driver) use a version of msvcrt.dll ? 

I reran Ad-aware and deleted suspected files and folders and now I am able to open the Windows folders.

Thank you for your assistance.