Most people don't have networks in their homes, so they want to rid themselves of a needless icon on their desktop. However, your Internet connection is a network. The Internet is nothing more than millions of computers wired together in a large network, and, while your computer is connected via a phone line to your Internet provider's computers, it is participating in a network. I recently had to re-format my hard drive and reinstall Windows 95 because of some corrupted programs. I keep getting illegal operation errors.
Illegal operations are tough to diagnose because they are generic errors.
Basically, each software program that is currently open reserves its own segment of memory that nobody else is allowed to touch. When a program oversteps its boundaries and invades the personal space of another, an illegal operation occurs. Illegal operations are bound to happen sooner or later with any program due to some strange nuance, but they should never occur repeatedly. If one particular program causes them, then it's easy to pass it off as buggy software. Say what you want about Win95, but we know that it works, meaning that if the system as a whole was buggy enough to cause this problem, then everyone would be experiencing the same symptoms.