Problem in opening My Network Places

[comp_see]

I have couple of computers at home connected by a router. One machine has a weired problem. It's Windows ME machine. It can browse internet, and being seen and accessed by other computers. However, when I double click My Network Places in it, it displays "Explorer has caused an error in SHELL32.DLL. Explorer will be closed." Then the My Network Places closes immediately. I tried to uninstall TCP/IP and the network card driver, same thing. Disable Sygate Personal Firewall (orginal setting: normal and which works for long time) and AVG, same results.

Any suggestion is appreciated.

[ProfessorU]

If you need full functionality, I would grab your ME CD and overinstall or repair. Networking is so fickle in ME, the easiest way to fix most problems is to start fresh.

[comp_see]

Thanks, ProfessorU, I'll do that and then post back the results. But I'm quite busy right now, may take some days to do the re-install/repair.

[comp_see]

ProfessorU, I re-install WinME and problem is still there. During the re-installation, the computer needed re-start computer in the mid of run, Windows protection error saying that Error in initializing PPTCHAD.vxd. I can only boot to safe mode and use msconfig to disable this vxd and then re-start. Re-installation is then completed. After boot up in normal, I enable the vxd again and re-boot. No Windows protection error anymore.

However, double click My Network Places still generate the error in SHELL32.DLL. No problem in Internet and OUtlook Express. One more thing is that when I view the network places from other machines, I can see an extract folder shortcut called Target in every shared folder in the problematic computer which I never seen before.

Thanks for your advice.