my machine is dying - Help me!

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jeff
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Jeff

Ah, I am so frustrated. My system keeps crashing on start-up. I have managed
to bring-up older editions of the registry, but more problems have occurred
and now it's a mess. Problem number 1 has been replaced with Problem #2 -

(I know this forum is Win2000 - I'm just so lost, I thought maybe someone
here might have heard of this before.)
stats:
Win98
ie6
Norton Virus Scanner/utilities
ZoneAlarm Firewall


The Problem #2 - the present one.

1) machine start-up is slow
2) clicking "my computer" crashes with the message below which also occurs
if I try to open "Windows Explorer" and "Control Panel"

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EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module SHELL32.DLL at 017f:66801af2.
Registers:
EAX=00018e85 CS=017f EIP=66801af2 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=004a9a38 SS=0187 ESP=008de3fc EBP=008de410
ECX=00006552 DS=0187 ESI=66801adc FS=2a47
EDX=004c4a43 ES=0187 EDI=004abbc0 GS=261e
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 0a 66 85 c9 75 f1 c2 04 00 83 7c 24 04 00
Stack dump:
71023d25 004abbc0 00000063 0044a148 80004005 008de424 71025062 0000004e
004abbc0 00000000 008de444 710250b3 004aa688 004a9a38 0000004e 00000000
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The First Major Problem
Before these problems came along, the system was crashing on start-up just
about every time with this message on the black screen:
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Windows Protection Error. Restart your computer (or something along those
lines)
=================================================

I would go back in Safe Mode to pull up an earlier version of the registry -
which use to work fine for awhile, but each time I restarted the machine, it
would again crash and I would have to repeat the SafeMode jounry.

I am surprised I can get online, so I came right here.

Any advice? Thanks, Jeff
 
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