Explorer General Protection Error

[summertime]

On startup and after desktop and ZA screen appeared, an error message opened saying:
Explorer caused a general protection fault in module shell.dll at 0002.000002d4.
I tried to close the error message window,but it wouldn't close. I then rebooted to "safe mode" and ran Windows scan disk, but no errors were found, so I rebooted and this time no error message appeared. Since the error didn't reappear, does this mean the problem has ironed itself out???
I don't have any of the other Norton Utilities installed to check for errors except AV, so don't know how else to find out what happened and how to fix it.
Am running WN98SE 4.10.

[Vernon Frazee]

Microsoft KB: Windows 98 and Windows Me Hot Error Message Topics - Definition of General Protection Fault Error Messages

[summertime]

Tried the link to check on cause and description of above error message, but page was not found. . .

[Vernon Frazee]

Oops, sorry about that. The vBulletin software that runs this site had inserted a <br /> into the link. Try it now, (it's working here).