Whenever opening Acrobat Reader 3.01 the following error message appears: ‘Acrord32: This program has performed an illegal operation and will shutdown. Invalid page fault in module WININET.DLL at 0157:6300113b’. When Acrobat is used to view PDF files within Netscape the error message appears but the download of data continues. However, Netscape is frozen out. The computer is a Pentium 133MHz HP Pavilion 5315D running Windows 95.

You have a rather old copy of Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. I checked whether the latest version (Acrobat Reader 5.x) is compatible with Windows 95. Unfortunately, the latest version of Reader seems to only be compatible with Windows 95 OSR 2 (the second version of Windows 95). If you are running Windows 95 OSR 2 download the latest version of reader (from www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html) and install. However, if you are running OSR 1 you probably won’t be able to update your version of Reader. If you still have the installer for Adobe Acrobat 3.01, try reinstalling the software. I have been trying to find older versions of Acrobat on the internet, in case you no longer have the installer, but I have been unsuccessful. Apart from this, I cannot think of any other possibilities for solving this problem. If any other readers have some suggestions to help Malcolm please write in!