Subj : IEXPLORER problem
To   : MIKE ROSS
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Fri Jan 21 2005 08:21 am

* Originally in WINDOWS
* Crossposted in WIN95

Hello MIKE and All,

    Responding to a post in the WINDOWS area:
    On Thursday January 20 2005 at 22:51,
    MIKE ROSS [1:167/133] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: IEXPLORER problem

 GM>> I'm running Windows for Workgroup v3.11 because I don't trust
 GM>> Win9.x NOT to issue long file names.

 GM>> I installed Internet Explorer v3.03 because newer version gave me
 GM>> memory problems.  IE has been performing adequately until today:

 GM>> IEXPLORE caused a General Protection Fault in module USER.EXE at
 GM>> 000B:0097.

 GM>> Consequently, I can't use IE...  Would someone please tell me how
 GM>> to fix IE?

 MR> Gerald, did you change something in the setup after you had your IE
 MR> working right? Perhaps you could restore your system to the previous
 MR> setting before the change. A GPF is often a hardware conflict between
 MR> say 2 different programs trying to use the speaker or other like video
 MR> i/o. Maybe both are trying to access the same memory etc. Old dos apps
 MR> are bad for this. GPF's are typically fatal in win3.x, 98se is better
 MR> but takes much longer to startup than w95 but w95 is about as bad as
 MR> win3.x with GPF's.

I didn't change anything in the setup, but I did use my favorite text
editor to make changes to my Favorites list.  When I deleted Favorite.htm,
my problem was gone -- I guess that means I can't use the editor on the
Favorite.htm file. ?

Something else I discovered...  IE is depositing a Favorite.htm and
Global.htm (zero byte files) in the root of my boot drive.  I will try:

  Set favorite=C:\Wfw\Ie
  Set global=C:\Wfw\Ie

to see if that will get rid of the pesky zero byte files.

When is a good time to delete everything in C:\Wfw\Ie\Cache?  Startup?
Shutdown?  Once a week?  This directory can get very bloated after visiting
a few web sites....

           Cheers ... Gerald

.... I found the answer . . . but forgot the question
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