My computer is doing it's dead level best to make me crazy. I have a
home-based business and my PC is my livelyhood. Yesterday I started
getting the following error from TAPISRV.EXE: "This program has
performed an illegal operation..."

Clicking on details gives me this:

TAPISRV caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0177:bff7b997.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0177 EIP=bff7b997 EFLGS=00000246
EBX=013d7150 SS=017f ESP=0065fc80 EBP=0065fc9c
ECX=00432e9c DS=017f ESI=013d7150 FS=1247
EDX=81c12062 ES=017f EDI=0053069c GS=124e
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff 76 04 e8 26 89 ff ff 5e c2 04 00 56 8b 74 24
Stack dump:
00432ed0 013d2f0a 013d7150 013d2e86 00432e8c 00000001 00000001 0065fcd0
100013fc 00000001 00000000 00432e5c 00000077 00000000 0000000a 00000770


Then, to make things even more fun, I started having Outlook problems.
Whenever I open MS Outlook Express, if I am connected to my ISP it gives
me the following error: "MSINMN: This program has performed an illegal
operation"...yada, yada, yada. You know what I mean.

I hit Details and I get this:

MSIMN caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0177:bff7b997.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0177 EIP=bff7b997 EFLGS=00000246
EBX=02627150 SS=017f ESP=01b5f420 EBP=01b5f43c
ECX=0046d3cc DS=017f ESI=02627150 FS=5a0f
EDX=81c12062 ES=017f EDI=0046d410 GS=592e
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff 76 04 e8 26 89 ff ff 5e c2 04 00 56 8b 74 24
Stack dump:
0046d454 02622f0a 02627150 02622e86 0046d3bc 00000001 00000001 01b5f470
100013fc 00000001 00000000 0046ce78 00000077 00000000 0000000a 00000770


I called a tech support guy I know, and he told me that TAPISRV.EXE has
to do with the modems and Dial-Up Networking and such. Okay, but why
does it also kill Windows Explorer and prevent my desktop icons from
coming up? He told me to shut down and do a cold boot in 5 minutes, but
it didn't work. While searching for the TAPISRV file with the "Find"
utility, I just happened to come accros a copy of TAPSIRV.exe on my
storage drive. Just for giggles I d-clicked on it and everything was
fine, until I had to restart, that is. this rewally has to stop.

As for Outlook Express, I have removed, rebooted and reinstalled MS
Outlook Express twice now with out any resolution of the problem. Is
there something I missed, or should be doing that I'm not?

Any help would be aprreciated.

Thank you

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