"IExplore.exe has generated an error." Now what?

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I cannot get the popup style links. When I click the icon to go there, an XP window pops up and the flag keeps flying, but the window never opens.

That, more often than not, is a function of the site you're trying to see in those links. Do you have a pop-up blocker installed?

Have you tried any of the steps listed in the article? System File Checker would be my first approach.

Recently, when I would double click on an URL, instead of getting to the internet as usual, I get a dialog box which reads "Windows cannot fine iexplore.exe. I can go around this by pasting the URL in the Address Block.

However, when I try to access web sites using titles that are highlighted, I am stymied with the same message. I now even get the message when I click on the "Web" icon in the Earthlink email -
this is new.

That's an interesting one. Not sure off the top of my head. I would try:
1) system file check: http://ask-leo.com/what_is_the_system_file_checker_and_how_do_i_run_it.html
2) a reinstall or repair of IE as outlined in the article above.

Hi there,

Can you please help me with following error.

1) The instruction at "0x003a2ce8" referenced memory at "0x00b28e18". The memory chould not be "read".

2) Runtime error 216 at 00002CE8

Thanks for your time,

1) What were you doing at the time?
2) Did you follow the suggestions in the article?

Hello Leo! :)

I am running Windows XP with the latest Windows Update of SP2. Mind you - I installed the SP2 update AFTER this problem starting occuring.

For the past few weeks IE keeps crashing when I click on links. I get that little error box and in the details section I get the following:

AppName: iexplore.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: kernel32.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 0001eb33

This mainly happens at Ebay, Hotmail and those kinds of sites which seem to use CSS (not sure if this is relevent).

Anyhow, it seems to get worse over time. For example it happened at first when I tried to sell on Ebay, and would crash when I'd click on the SELL button. Then it got worse and would crash when I clicked on any link on "MY EBAY" page. That sort of thing.

I ran the SFC. I turned off System Restore, gone into Safe Mode, run my virus scanner, Ad-Aware AND Spybot S&D. This seemed to fix the problem for about a day but then IE started crashing again and not always on the same pages as before. It still crashes Ebay (which is my main concern) but now it sometimes happens if I hit the BACK key. I went back and redid the process above (except for the SFC), but this time it's not any better.I just can't figure it out, it's so inconsistent!

I have searched GOOGLE for hours looking for ideas on what could be causing this. I have read about some ad-bot called CWS that seems to cause a similar problem but upon looking through my system I don't seem to have any of the relevent files to suggest infection.

If anyone at all could give me some help with this matter I would GREATLY appreciate it! I like to think of myself as a pretty computer savvy gal, but short of completely reinstalling XP I really don't know what to do about this. I think maybe it's a software conflict but can't be sure what the problem is.

And yes, I have installed a different browser but IE is what I'm used to and I'd like to get it fixed. :)

Thanks!

~* Schylaar aka Tracey *~

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