In the address bar, type about:crashes.Note: If any reports do not have BP-in front of the numbers/letters, click it to submit them. The crash report is several pages of data. We need the report numbers to see the whole report.. Using your mouse, mark the most recent 7 - 10 crash reports, and copy them. Now go to the reply box and paste them in. Make sure that Addition option is checked. Press Scan button and wait. The tool will produce two logfiles on your desktop: FRST.txt and Addition.txt. Press the + R on your keyboard at the same time. Type appwiz.cpl and click OK. Search for each uninstalled entry, right-click it and select Uninstall. Save HJTsetup.exe to your desktop. Double click on the HJTsetup.exe icon on your desktop. By default it will install to C:Program FilesHijack This. Continue to click Next in the setup dialogue boxes until you get to the Select Addition Tasks dialogue. Put a check by Create a desktop icon then click Next again. I found that uninstalling the USB printer drivers (the printer wasn't even connected) fixed MY issue. I was trying to install printer software for a new printer on our network when I kept getting the explorer.exe has generated errors. I did check into all the possibilites listed in this thread and thank you all for the ideas. I'm seconding the "illegal operation from a successfully installed program" question in the original post, wondering if there's anything about this particular windows image, or the nature of the emulated CPU, that might prevent certain games/programs from being run. Page 1 of 2 - The NTVDM cpu has encountered an illegal instruction - posted in Virus, Trojan, Spyware, and Malware Removal Help: Hello everyboy, Thank you for the support before anything. Advanced Calendar 2.0.0.1000176. Download the attached fixlist.txt file, and save it on your Desktop (or wherever your FRST.exe/FRST64.exe executable is located); Right-click on the FRST executable and select Run as Administrator (for Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 users); Click on the Fix button; On completion, a message will come up saying The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction CS:0fe1 IP:0613 OP:63 6b 61 72 64 The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction CS:0fe1 IP:0613 OP:63 6b 61 72 64. By Timur Gokce, August 19 WINDOWSExplorer.EXE. c:Program FilesHewlett-PackardIAMinasghost.exe. C:Program FilesActivCardActivCard Goldagquickp.exe The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. CS:0000 IP:0077 OP:f0 37 05 0a 02 Choose 'Close' to terminate the application. [Close] [Ignore] I have Windows XP Pro Edition. Windows Defender comes up clean. WINDOWSExplorer.EXE C:Program FilesSynapticsSynTPSynTPEnh.exe C:WINDOWSSystem32DLADLACTRLW.EXE ok, for anyone else who might have this problem in the future, i fixed it a couple days ago. i just copied the rundll file off the system disk, uncompressed it, and replaced the one on my pc with it. everything is good now. i can use the stuff in the control panel and what not. the black boxes are gone too. thanks for the help guys