trouble right clicking

Hi,
I have been looking at a lot of folders to see if they were still needed and when I right click on folders I often get the following message and Explorer closes down. HELP please
Thanks
Lewis


EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module EGEXTMENU.DLL at 018f:021e6137.
Registers:
EAX=02f84f40 CS=018f EIP=021e6137 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000d7d SS=0197 ESP=021cf08c EBP=021cf168
ECX=021e6124 DS=0197 ESI=021cf1cc FS=4427
EDX=00004045 ES=0197 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
02 80 17 1e 02 a2 1c 1e 02 a2 1c 1e 02 a2 1c 1e
Stack dump:
021c0197 00000197 7fcb0197 82920197 00000197 7fcc0197 7fcc580f 02f80f90 00000000 00483dbc 00000400 49534c43 307b5c44 42393137 2d303044 43313641

 

I cannot find any references to this .dll file - typo ?
Did you try an over- install of Win 98 SE ?
regards

 

lewislewis--Or if this just started happening within the last five days, you could try restarting in MS-DOS mode, type in scanreg /restore, OK and choose a date before the problem started. Wait|Reboot.
http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/start-145.shtml

 

HI
Thanks for the replies. This has been happening for quite some time, it just seems to be happening more often. The .dll is in the windows\system folder.
Merlin, are you suggesting that I reinstall windows?
A few days ago I removed some unwanted audio files from my Creative recordings folder and today I am getting the error message aand I am unable to remove these files. Strange.
I am open to try anything
Thanks
Lewis

 

HI
This is a corrected post
Thanks for the replies. This has been happening for quite some time, it just seems to be happening more often. The .dll is in the windows\system folder.
Merlin, are you suggesting that I reinstall windows?
A few days ago I removed some unwanted audio files from my Creative recordings folder and today when trying to remove similar files I am getting the error message and I am unable to. Strange.
I am open to try anything
Thanks
Lewis

 

lewislewis

From a similar problem of my own with Explorer you may need to boot to the Start Up Disk and re-install Windows. Making sure that it goes into the EXISTING Windows folder.

Do not try re-installing 98 after booting to the HD. Certain files may well be inuse and WILL NOT get overwritten properly.

BillyBob

 

Sounds like you may have deleted a program that still has an invalid context menu entry. Try these 2 apps to disable the dll you mentioned from trying to create the context menu entry:

ContextEdit:
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utilfile/cnxtedit.zip

Shell Extension Viewer:
http://freehost14.websamba.com/nirsoft/utils/shexview.zip

 

lewislewis--If you can rightclick on the EGEXTMENU.DLL file and then Properties, you may be able to learn something about the program with which it is associated. Then you could try to use Control Panel|Add/Remove to remove the program (and reinstall if you want it).

 

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Hi
I was unable to use the downloads as I could'nt figure out how to use them. I tried right clicking on the file 'EGEXTMENU.DLL' but that closed explorer. I did reinstall IE6, is that the same as explorer?
This problem has me baffled.
Thanks for your input.
Lewis

 

NO !!!! EXPLORER is a WINDOWS OS file.

IE is IEXPLORER

BillyBob