mom lost solitaire?

[ghitch75]

my mom has a old 400mhz gateway running win98se... one day she tryed to play it and it said it performed a illegel operation and shut it down........i went over and tryed to get it fixed.....i tryed to delete it and reinstalled it scaned it for virus's and ad-ware and trogens nothing came up?.....would anyone know what is causing this?.........she really loves to play it............everything else on her system works fine............thanks

[Redo40]

Did you just delete the solitaire.exe or go into Add/Remove programs/windows setup/accessories and uninstall the games, then reboot and reinstall them?

[ghitch75]

i uninstalled them in add/remove and reinstalled off the win98se disk still didn't go?...anything else?

[Iman74]

I would do the add/remove programs again and do a uninstall
Then reboot
Then find the folder and make sure it's deleted. If not go ahead and delete it.
Then reinstall.
If you are still getting an error then I suggest to do one of two things:
Post exactly what the error says: also doing a google search might help
or
There are shareware versions of solitaire out there that you can load in replacement.

[ghitch75]

it says EXPLORER HAS PERFORMED A ILLEGEL OPERATION AND WILL SHUT DOWN that is the error it is giving and everything else in explorer is working fine...oh will if i can't get it fixed i'll put another one on it...but it would be nice to know what is causing it....thanks

[DragonNOA1]

Maybe she or some internet plug-in messed with some files/settings and now her computer won't run the .EXE, if the computer hasn't been reformated in a few years i would reformat, but otherwise just go with a third-party app. computers are funny that way sometimes.

[imbest123]

The Internet Explorer is named differently. Its listed as iexplorer.exe. Explorere.exe is the taskbar and background and all that other junk.

[edrod13]

Check out these links. I have seen that problem before with windows 98 but every pc seems to have a different fix. It seems that it has to do with third party installed on the machine or something of that nature. HTH

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...hlight=sol.exe

or

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...taire+problems

[GaryRouth]

If you haven't uninstalled/reinstalled anything but the Games in Accessories - during this time that Solitaire is acting up - you can restore a Registry from before that point & see if it's a Registry setting. You boot the computer with a bootable floppy disk (you can make one if you don't have one handy - in Add/Remove Programs/Startup Disk), then from the A: prompt, type: scanreg/restore Choose a restore date from a successful boot prior to the trouble with Solitaire.

If you added a program or new hardware just before Solitaires troubles, the restore won't help, and you'd have to reinstall your new stuff. That's a whole different bag of troubleshooting... The links from edrod13 should get you to most of the common causes (often mouse drivers and such). . .

Best of luck
. . . Gary

[ghitch75]

ok guys thanks for all the replys!......she does have a optical mouse(don't know the brand my sister got it for her) i think you guys hit it on the head!!......i'll get back and tell you how it went......thanks agian!!!!!!!!!!

[Miz]

If it's a Logitech mouse, you've probably found the source of the problems.

When Logitech started adding BackWeb to their hardware installations, they started messing up a perfectly good product.

Here's what the BackWeb people say: "Logitech wanted to establish a direct relationship with its customers and improve its after-sales customer experience. By ensuring that end-users receive critical content such as notice of software upgrades, patches, and product promotions in a seamless, timely and cost-effective manner, Logitech is able to provide a high level of customer satisfaction with its products. In other words, a form of spyware in that it phones home looking for those all-important upgrades, patches and, of course, product promotions (i.e., advertising).

The end results are that installing a Logitech product can mess things up, seemingly at random and that "high level of customer satisfaction" is quickly going south.

[KHT]

Whether or not you resolve your problem. Try downloading 123 FreeSolitaire

My "solitaire junkie" mom loves it..

[BearEater]

copy a solatire exe from a pc, copy it to your mom's pc. then make a shortcut to the usual place your mom used to find to start to play the program... (too many to's lol)