Windows 98 SE: Explorer keeps crashing SHLWAPI.DLL \ VOGONS

Reply 1 of 9, by Davros

Posted on 2013-12-07, 06:18

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try changing your version of i.e

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Reply 2 of 9, by schlang

Posted on 2013-12-07, 21:21

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tried that, resulted in exceptions in msxml.dll and msmxl3.dll 🙁

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Reply 3 of 9, by Jorpho

Posted on 2013-12-09, 02:36

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Are you trying to run Windows 98 SE in DOSBox? Because that generally doesn't work very well.

If this is an installation on a normal machine, your best bet is probably to re-install 98SE over your existing Windows installation.

Reply 4 of 9, by schlang

Posted on 2013-12-09, 09:08

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no it's native Dos, and a fresh installation

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Reply 5 of 9, by Dominus

Posted on 2013-12-09, 11:28

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What did you do before that started?

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Reply 6 of 9, by schlang

Posted on 2013-12-10, 12:24

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Nothing this immediately happens after installation.
I'm thinking of doing the installation on another hardware and flip drives afterwards now.

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Reply 7 of 9, by Jorpho

Posted on 2013-12-10, 13:49

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Are you using a standard, unmodified installation CD?

Reply 8 of 9, by schlang

Posted on 2013-12-10, 14:01

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yes, standard german 98se

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Reply 9 of 9, by Jorpho

Posted on 2013-12-10, 16:51

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Well, that's really weird... I tried Googling to see if anything similar had been reported previously, but it doesn't look that way.

Have you run Scandisk on the hard drive? Perhaps you have bad sectors?

Also, what's the hardware like? Did you partition the hard drive using Win9x scandisk? Do you have more than 512 MB of RAM? Are you using any particularly unusual video/sound/network card?

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