I’ve been getting errors like this on my Win2k computer when restarting and shutting down.
Until today, no error message appeared on screen at start up, but the error sound from Windows indicated something was going on. Nothing shows up in Event Viewer.
The error when shutting down appears twice and is similar to what I’m now seeing at start up, usually naming explorer.exe as the culprit, but not always.
Today however, I got the following message displayed when starting up:
96303039-74c5-44b8-b34d-78a0714e02d2.exe - Application Error
The instruction at 0x77fa2f0c referenced memory at 0x00000000. The memory could not be “written”.
Shortly after, I got a BSOD, which seems to happen from time to time ONLY after a cold start. When I restarted the computer, the same error came up with a different, but similarly named, filename. On searching for the file, I found it in my Windows Temp folder. Properties revealed it has something to do with Avast!
The errors seem to have cropped up around the same time Avast! updates started announcing themselves twice, making me wonder if the two things are related, although it’s also possible Windows 2000 it throwing me a red herring and it has nothing to do with Avast!
Any help/suggestions/info would be appreciated.