Jim
December 11th 03, 09:25 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>Many times when in my e-mail or other programs both my
>husband and I get this message on the screens of both our
>comps. " This program has performed an illegal act and
>must shut down" and it does shut the programs down. All
>we are doing is checking our e-mail or playing games or
>into photo express or other simple programs. Why do we
>get this message and how do we get it to stop showing up.
>It also removes most of the icons in the desktop bar at
>the bottom right-hand side. Hope someone out there can
>help. Thank you so much.
>.
>Run maintenance, disk cleanup and defragmenter tools.
Then try this in your run box; " sfc /scannow " which runs
the system file checker tool. Or try either a system
restore, or do a repair re-install of XP.
>Many times when in my e-mail or other programs both my
>husband and I get this message on the screens of both our
>comps. " This program has performed an illegal act and
>must shut down" and it does shut the programs down. All
>we are doing is checking our e-mail or playing games or
>into photo express or other simple programs. Why do we
>get this message and how do we get it to stop showing up.
>It also removes most of the icons in the desktop bar at
>the bottom right-hand side. Hope someone out there can
>help. Thank you so much.
>.
>Run maintenance, disk cleanup and defragmenter tools.
Then try this in your run box; " sfc /scannow " which runs
the system file checker tool. Or try either a system
restore, or do a repair re-install of XP.