Visual C++ Crashing when I try to open a file

[lalarka]

Hi All,
I'm brand new to C++ and am having a problem. Hope someone can help me out.

I'm using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 with SP6.

I've been working through a tutorial book and when I tried an exercise yesterday the compiler hung up and I couldn't get it to exit. I finally had to use the task manager to kill it. After that whenever I try to open a file the application crashes with the following error:

MSDEV.EXE - Application Error
The instruction at "0x73DD11c7" referenced memory at "0x00000004".
The memory could not be "read".

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling. But the error still happens.
Does anyone know what's going on?

Thanks,
Lance

[Umz]

The file may have been corrupted and is causing errors, try open the code with notepad and edit it from there.