Every time I try to open Control Panel I get the following:

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 017f:bff7a138.
Registers:
EAX=04727470 CS=017f EIP=bff7a138 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=0052cab8 SS=0187 ESP=0891fcfc EBP=0891fd30
ECX=6578652e DS=0187 ESI=0052ca4c FS=82f7
EDX=0050bd00 ES=0187 EDI=047274dc GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
89 51 08 8b 53 08 8b 43 04 89 42 04 8d 93 0b 10
Stack dump:
0891fd30 0052ca4c 00430000 00000000 bff7b31d 00430000 0052ca4c 0000006c 00000200 0044f768 0044f7e8 00000000 0052ca4c 0891fd6c 7ff214db 00430000

I have run sfc to repair system files and have restored control.exe from installation disks.

I can run all of the control panel applets by creating shortcuts to all of the *.cpl files and placing them in a folder from where I can access them. They all appear to work correctly.

Thanks for any help that you can give.

David Wright Sr.

P.S. I have run AdAware, Spybot, A-Squared, Symantec Corporate Version 8.0 anti-virus, all with latest updates and have checked hijackthis log, but have seen nothing which would appear to be a problem.

Is your c:\windows\control.ini file intact? It should look similar to;

[don't load]
snd.cpl=no
joystick.cpl=no
midimap.drv=no
sticpl.cpl=no

[MMCPL]
mlcfg32.cpl=C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\SYSTEM\MAPI\1033\ 95\MLCFG32.CPL

[Patterns]
(None)=(None)
Bricks=187 95 174 93 186 117 234 245
Buttons=170 125 198 71 198 127 190 85
Cargo Net=120 49 19 135 225 200 140 30
Circuits=82 41 132 66 148 41 66 132
Cobblestones=40 68 146 171 214 108 56 16
Colosseum=130 1 1 1 171 85 170 85
Daisies=30 140 216 253 191 27 49 120
Dizzy=62 7 225 7 62 112 195 112
Field Effect=86 89 166 154 101 149 106 169
Key=254 2 250 138 186 162 190 128
Live Wire=239 239 14 254 254 254 224 239
Plaid=240 240 240 240 170 85 170 85
Rounder=215 147 40 215 40 147 213 215
Scales=225 42 37 146 85 152 62 247
Stone=174 77 239 255 8 77 174 77
Thatches=248 116 34 71 143 23 34 113
Tile=69 130 1 0 1 130 69 170
Triangles=135 7 6 4 0 247 231 199
Waffle's Revenge=77 154 8 85 239 154 77 154

[drivers.desc]
l3codecx.acm=Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec
C:\BITWARE\is101.drv=BitWare Voice Driver

[Screen Saver.Marquee]
Text=Windows 98SE
Font=Arial
Size=72
BackgroundColor=0 0 0
TextColor=0 255 255
Speed=60
Attributes=00011
CharSet=0

[Userinstallable.drivers]
voice=C:\BITWARE\is101.drv

[related.desc]
voice=

Thanks. Yes, it looks ok and I tried renaming control.ini to something else. (came across this somewhere else) and it still bombed.

However, something just popped, (no pun intended),into my mind and I recalled that I have been having trouble with panicware's pop-up stopper, so I stopped it and tried again. It worked!

I will remove and re-install pop-up stopper and see if that fixes the problem permanently.

Again Thanks.

That did it. Removing Panicware's Pop-Up Stopper and re-installing got rid of the problem and Pop-Up Stopper is working correctly.

David Wright Sr.

Great. Good to hear you got it worked out.