General Protection Fault in USER.EXE

The following message appears when copying and pasting addresses into the IE address bar:

EXPLORER caused a general protection fault
in module USER.EXE at 0003:00001022.
Registers:
EAX=00004c9f CS=17c7 EIP=00001022 EFLGS=00000246
EBX=000012dc SS=4c9f ESP=00008c22 EBP=038f8c40
ECX=00014c9f DS=4c9f ESI=00008c4c FS=4caf
EDX=00010118 ES=4c9f EDI=038ffed4 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff 5e 08 b9 cf 16 8e c1 59 5b 83 f9 0f 74 2e 81
Stack dump:
0023bc7c 0118ffff 01180980 16cf0980 038ffed4 00008c
and then it says this program has preformed an illegal operation and will be shut down

And of course it shuts down. System is running Windows 98 and the latest IE (the problem occurred before updating IE) and all updates have been d/l and installed.

I looked at several MS articles in the knowlege base but could not find any specific to this problem. What needs to be done to correct this. If it is a registry problem can you reinstall over 98 just to replace corrupt files without losing any other data?

 

Tho' the error message is different, suggest you try the steps described here. If that doesn't help, pay a visit to this page.

Good luck!