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Six months ago, I suddenly lost the ability to open IE7.  Each attempt gave the response..."The instruction at "0x018f084" refenced memory at  "same". The memory could not be written. Click OK to terminate."

 Every attempt gave a different number in the quotes. I searched the net for a solution and found none (didn't post here), though I did find people with the same problem. Eventually, I gave up and uninstalled IE7. Attempted to install IE8. seemed to go OK until I restarted, whereupon I momentarily saw the same error message above.

So, I switched to Mozilla Firefox and was happy until today when I lost it, too. I get only "The application failed to intialize properly (0x0000005). Click OK to terminate the application." I found a user on the Mozilla help forum with EXACTLY the same symptoms. We've gotten no help there. One responder kept referring us to fixes for "Firefox crashing", apparently unable to understand it's not crashing; we can't open it.

Meanwhile I attempted unsuccessfully to download Opera. I get "failed for invalid access to memory location."

I'm left only with Netscape 8 which, ironically, I discovered today has been rendered EXTINCT due to their inability to compete with the other browsers.

Does anyone have any similar experience or suggestions for help? thanks, Mike. Quote from: crowstalker on April 09, 2009, 08:58:20 PM

Six months ago, I suddenly lost the ability to open IE7.  Each attempt gave the response..."The instruction at "0x018f084" refenced memory at  "same". The memory could not be written. Click OK to terminate."

 Every attempt gave a different number in the quotes. I searched the net for a solution and found none (didn't post here), though I did find people with the same problem. Eventually, I gave up and uninstalled IE7. Attempted to install IE8. seemed to go OK until I restarted, whereupon I momentarily saw the same error message above.

So, I switched to Mozilla Firefox and was happy until today when I lost it, too. I get only "The application failed to intialize properly (0x0000005). Click OK to terminate the application." I found a user on the Mozilla help forum with EXACTLY the same symptoms. We've gotten no help there. One responder kept referring us to fixes for "Firefox crashing", apparently unable to understand it's not crashing; we can't open it.

Meanwhile I attempted unsuccessfully to download Opera. I get "failed for invalid access to memory location."

I'm left only with Netscape 8 which, ironically, I discovered today has been rendered extinct due to their inability to compete with the other browsers.

Does anyone have any similar experience or suggestions for help? thanks, Mike.
Please post,
Operating system:
Laptop or Desktop:
Age of computer (approx.):
Disk space:
RAM:

And any other information that might be usefull.Have you run a memory test on your system?

You may have a bad RAM chip

look for the free download memtest it can check your RAM for problems.

Quote from: Helpmeh on April 10, 2009, 07:08:29 AM
Please post,
Operating system:
Laptop or Desktop:
Age of computer (approx.):
Disk space:
RAM:

And any other information that might be usefull.

I'll second that... HOWEVER, all your error messages suggest problems trying to access memory LOCATIONS so it could be a problem/fault with your memory...

Try this free software to test your memory:

www.custom-it.co.uk/pub/MemTest.zip Quote from: Helpmeh on April 10, 2009, 07:08:29 AM
Please post,
Operating system:
Laptop or Desktop:
Age of computer (approx.):
Disk space:
RAM:

And any other information that might be usefull.

Thanks for the replies. Don't know how long I can hang on....things are getting worse. 

I have Windows XP Media center Edition 2005 on a
desktop HP Pavilion , 4 years old max
Right now I can open every folder in my control panel except the System folder....I get an audio, but no visual.
It's a 1 GB memory and 200GB hard drive and I can tell you I had tons of space when I last looked. If I lost a lot of memory, it's in recent WEEKS and it wasn't through normal use. I haven't intentionally loaded anything new and my normal usage is just web surfing, email and photography. I've backed up everything I want that I've accumulated over 4 years and it amounts to only 45 GB on my backup drive.

Today, Netscape is a little funky now for the FIRST time (it's always been a little slow to open, but quick enough after that). It tries to open multiple sessions and when I tried to log off my open webmail , it told me it couldn't find the website, or any other that I tried. I had to close the browser and reopen it to get here.

After trying several times to open my system folder, I gave up but had trouble closing the control panel folder. After it did, I got 3 new error messages...

1) Explorer.exe Application Error. The instruction at "*****" referenced memory at "*****", etc.

2) Then, Dr. Watson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem and needs to close, etc. 

3) Followed by, Error loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\sysdm.cpl
Invalid access to memory location.

For a long time, the only symptoms were connected to web browsers; it seems to have spread now.

I appreciate the help and hope I can get back to access it. Thanks, Mike


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