"Illegal Operations"... how do I make them go away?

[Haibane Shadsie]

We've all had them... but I've been having them A LOT when online lately.

I have a pop-up ad blocker. I wonder if that has something to do with it... stupid ads trying to get through and getting their "revenge" when they cannot come through due to the blocker... or whether it's the retarded new ads on AIM...

I put up with them here and there... but tonight, I was at an oekaki board working on a complicated oekaki drawing... and got that before I could save my progress on the picture... the page shut down and I lost my oekaki! GAAAAARGGGGGGGH!

[andyroo]

You have to get a new Operating System. I suggest getting a Mac. There is no way to get rid of them in windows; it is there for the programmer's convenience and the user's inconvenience. You will just have to live with it as long as you're using Windows; there is nothing you can do about it. Doing normal maintanance such as defrag and scandisk could minimize program crashes. Another thing you can do is a reinstall of windows if you have a disk. The extreme, and probably isn't needed, is reformat the hard drive and install windows.

[Retten]

I recomede you try a program like Norton SystemWorks or Toon Up Utilities they both can help you clean up your comp and elminate some common erroes plus Norton has its own defrag program which actully helps you comp unlike the one built into windows

[shooraijin]

I second andyroo's advice

But, assuming you wish to remain with a PC, how much RAM do you have and which version of Windows?

A number of my friends have found that often you just need to wipe the system and start over from the install discs when cruft like that creeps in ... all those .dlls from bad installs, s00p3r s3kr1t spyware, corrupted system files, etc., just build up. When my Dad's Win98 PC started going bananas to the point where it blue-screened five minutes after starting, we just wiped the whole system and started over with *just* the applications we were using. His system has been relatively stable since then since we only installed the programs we were actually using on it.

You may be able to stave that off with adding some more RAM, or getting an upgrade CD if you're running an older version of Windows and upgrade Windows to that version, which is like reinstalling Windows with less inconvenience of having to backup your files, destroy the hard disk, and copy them back after the re-install. (You may have to do this still but there should be less trouble with lost apps and data files.)

Also, if your PC is aging, perhaps some components are failing, too. Cruft invades hardware and software alike.