Everytime I open my computer and search around in C: drive for certain files I have downloaded I get the error ‘Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module PDM.DLL at 015f:4a01259d’. I click on the ok button then lose most of the icons in the system tray. This only occurred after the installation of Microsoft Visual Basic 6. I have reinstalled Windows 98 and Visual Basic 6 but that has not helped. I am running Pentium II 266 MMX, Windows 98, 64mb RAM, and a 3 gig HDD. Please help.

This is a recognised problem when running Windows 98 with Visual Basic/Visual Studio 6.0. The fix is to download and install Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. You can download this from msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates.asp. However, if you have uninstalled Visual Basic 6 and the problem persists, you will need to rename the file PDM.DLL in the WindowsSystem directory to PDM.OLD which will fix the problem.