Hi Everyone! Glad I found this site a few weeks back and book marked it! 🙂

I’ve recently had some PC problems and they might be related to Yahoo chat so I figure I’d post here on the chance that maybe you fine people can offer me some help.

First off, let me say that I am running Windows XP home edition (firewall enabled) on a Duron 1.2Ghz, 512MB RAM system and am running the most recent version of IE. My PC has all the current Windows & IE updates as well. I am also running Yahoo IM version 5,5,0,1254 (because I don’t like the latest version of Yahoo IM that doesn’t let you save offline messages). I also have a cable modem connection for the Internet.

I am an avid Yahoo chat room participant. I guess I am what you’d call a lurker (well that’s what someone called me of recently! lol). I usually enter 3 of my favorite chat rooms in the evening when I get home from work. I enter the chat rooms by launching 3 separate browsers and using a different alias for each room. When I enter the chat room, I have the option of using either 1) Java 2) Messenger or 3) Chat 2.0 for my Chat Software. I don’t like the look of Java (even though everyone her says it’s the least ‘bootable’….but I have been lucky and rarely, if ever have I been booted). I tend to use Chat 2.0 for my chat software because the people here say that Chat 2.0 is less bootable then using Messenger. I never really had a problem with using Messenger as my Chat Software in the past however. It is not uncommon for me to be logged into a chat room the whole night until I log off the following morning (hey…I’m a lurker, like I said! lol)

Any ways, I’ve been chatting like this successfully for a few months now and besides an occasional hiccup, I have had no major problems. Well something really weird has happened to me yesterday and I don’t know how to fix it. Basically what is happening now is as of yesterday when I went to get into the chats, I was only able to launch one instance of IE. When I attempted to launch a 2nd or 3rd instance of IE, the browser launched like normal (even showing my start page), but a Windows pop-up appeared saying, “Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience”. At the bottom of this pop-up the usual, “Send Error Report” and “Don’t Send” bars appeared too. In addition, I was able to have the pop-up show me the error report and here’s what came up:

Error signature
AppName: iexplorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2800.1106 ModName: winshow.dll ModVer: 1.0.0.8 Offset: 00002156

I was also able to click on another link that showed me the actual error report. It looked like a bunch of techno-weinie garbly gook to me and would be too large to try and copy here! lol

This problem kept happening when I tried to open a 2nd IE browser almost every time. I of course, rebooted my system, deleted all my history, cookies and offline files in my browser. I also did a disk cleanup and rebooted again. The problem is still present even though I have tried the above procedures numerous times. The 1st browser I launch works great every time. The 2nd one usually fails though. I have even tried changing the start (home) page of my browser thinking that would help but it didn’t. Also, just for the record, I don’t even have Yahoo IM running when I am trying this anymore but that doesn’t seem to help either. I haven’t installed any new programs or changed the settings in my PC recently and especially, didn’t make any changes during the several hours preceding this problem. The only thing I was doing with my PC at the time when this problem first occurred was being logged into the Yahoo chat rooms.

As a temp fix, I downloaded Nutscrape 7.1 (oops…I mean Netscape 7.1) to see if it was an IE problem. Netscape will open as many instances of the browser itself as I want open at the same time with no problems whatsoever. The problem with Netscape (and Opera too which I later downloaded), is that 1) I don’t like either one as well as I do IE and 2) When trying to enter the Yahoo chat rooms, I don’t have Chat 2.0 & Messenger available as Chat Software choices to me with either of those browsers (only Java which I don’t like).

Has anyone ever heard of such a problem? Do you think this problem may have originated as a result of being in the Yahoo chat rooms? Is there a way I might be able to remedy this without re-formatting and/or re-installing my OS on my HDD? I really don’t want to re-install all my programs on my PC. If not, is there a way I can make Netscape or Opera so that I can use Chat 2.0 when I go into the Yahoo chats?

Well you can get a chat clinet like Ytunnel or ychat u can run as many as you want then or wat l do to advoid confusion is use 2 computers it is much simplier to me
Jim

I MIGHT know the answer to this but I’m not sure…I can no longer get into yahoo group chats. I think the problem MIGHT be that I don’t have Windows 98SE and you can no longer d/l Jave for 98. Is Java the problem or is it something else? I can get there, its just that the page isn’t stable and it really won’t let me type in the box. I do have a Windows upgrade CD for 98 SE but is that a matter of just running it and will it automatically upgrade? Or do you think I have another problem since I can’t chat. Thanks.