Solitaire stalled

V. Sivaramakrishnan

I get an error message when I try to open solitaire (sol).The message is: SOL caused a general protection fault in module SOL.EXE at 0004:00001490. Registers: EAX=0000694d CS=1327 EIP=00001490 EFLGS=00000283 EBX=000218b6 SS=305f ESP=0000140c EBP=00001478 ECX=00000000 DS=305f ESI=0002694d FS=0000 EDX=00000000 ES=305f EDI=0000141c GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 66 a5 66 a5 ff 36 1a 00 8d 46 ae 16 50 2b 46 fe Stack dump: 305e0000 ffff0000 016fffff 024b0000 ffffffff bff7186d 0000305f e7800000 8201805c 0136bff9 61480040 00001000 00010000 00000000 e7a01000 41fb805c

SOL caused a general protection fault in module SOL.EXE at 0004:00001490. Registers: EAX=0000694d CS=1327 EIP=00001490 EFLGS=00000283 EBX=000218b6 SS=305f ESP=0000140c EBP=00001478 ECX=00000000 DS=305f ESI=0002694d FS=0000 EDX=00000000 ES=305f EDI=0000141c GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 66 a5 66 a5 ff 36 1a 00 8d 46 ae 16 50 2b 46 fe Stack dump: 305e0000 ffff0000 016fffff 024b0000 ffffffff bff7186d 0000305f e7800000 8201805c 0136bff9 61480040 00001000 00010000 00000000 e7a01000 41fb805c Please suggest a solution.

Solution by NIIT

This error can occur if you run Instant Messenger and Solitaire at the same time. To resolve this error, you can try removing the Instant Messenger from the StartUp folder. To remove an item from the StartUp folder, take the following steps: 1. Right-click Start, and then click Explore. 2. Double-click the Programs folder, and then double-click the StartUp folder. 3. In the right pane, right-click the shortcut you want to remove, and then click Delete.