Illegal Operation

aardvaak

I have a computer running Win98SE.

Everytime in the last couple of days I boot it up it boots ok then when I open Outlook Express and try to collect emails a message say "This program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down" on cliclicking "Details" it says " MSIMN caused an exception".

Can anyone please tell me how to solve this and what has happened?

f1charlie

Sounds like something has got corrupted. You could try repairing Outlook Express:

http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpresstroubles/qt/et_reinstall_oe.htm

aardvaak

f1charlie wrote: »

Sounds like something has got corrupted. You could try repairing Outlook Express:

http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpresstroubles/qt/et_reinstall_oe.htm

Thank you for your reply,I did that and also went to Add & Remove Programs and clicked repair IE there and still the same problem.

Have you got any further ideas?

superscaper

aardvaak wrote: »

clicked repair IE

Did you mean OE?

aardvaak

superscaper wrote: »

Did you mean OE?

No I did mean Internet Explorer I tried to repair because OE is part of IE I I clicked on Outlook Express in Add & Remove Programs the only option is to delete it.

superscaper

aardvaak wrote: »

No I did mean Internet Explorer I tried to repair because OE is part of IE I I clicked on Outlook Express in Add & Remove Programs the only option is to delete it.

Were there any problems installing after you altered the registry?

aardvaak

superscaper wrote: »

Were there any problems installing after you altered the registry?

I hav'nt altered the registry - should I have done - how do I do it?

superscaper

aardvaak wrote: »

I hav'nt altered the registry - should I have done - how do I do it?

It's in the instructions in the link f1charlie gave. I was assuming you'd followed them.

f1charlie

Perhaps I confused things by putting repairing when I should have put reinstalling

aardvaak

superscaper wrote: »

It's in the instructions in the link f1charlie gave. I was assuming you'd followed them.

I just clicked on link and re installed IE6

superscaper

aardvaak wrote: »

I just clicked on link and re installed IE6

This is what I see when I clicked on the link:

Windows NT 4/98/98 SE/ME/2000: Download Internet Explorer 6 SP 1 and follow the instructions below.
Reinstall Outlook Express and Internet Explorer 6 SP 1


To re-install Internet Explorer and Outlook Express on systems other than Windows XP with SP 2:

• ›› Step by Step Screenshot Walkthrough

• Select Run... from the Start menu.
• Type "regedit".
• Click OK.
• Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE­\SOFTWARE­\Microsoft­\Active Setup­\Installed Components­\!!44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}.
  • The key named (Default) will read Microsoft Outlook Express 6
• Double-click IsInstalled.
• Type '0'.
• Click OK.
  • To re-install Internet Explorer as well, set the IsInstalled key for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE­\SOFTWARE­\Microsoft­\Active Setup­\Installed Components­\!!89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383} (Internet Explorer 6) to "0" in the same manner.
• Close the registry editor.
• Open the ie6setup.exe file you previously downloaded and follow the installation instructions.