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internet explorer freezes
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Posted by: heyzeus2
lately this problem is getting worse. about 50% of the time i open an ie page, it will lock up. ctrl-alt-del will show it is not responding, and i have to keep going through this till a page finaly opens. i am not an expert on modem settings but i think they are right, i have reinstalled a newer driver, etc.
anyone heard of this problem?
in fact it happened just now and i had to retype this entire post.
other strange things: also lately windows will refuse to close these pages, leaving them on the screen, when i ctrl-alt-del and end it, the ctrl-alt-del box remains on the screen for instance, until i have so many multiple things on the screen that i am so disgusted i just turn the computer off.
if i remember correctly, i began having this issue after installing my new graphics sound/cards and my new hard drive, all on the same day.
however, prior to that windows would lock up constantly in other manners.
i have:
win me
lucent winmodem
via p4pb 400 mobo with celeron 2.4 gig
geforece 8x agp 5200
sb live 5.1 soundcard
Posted by: redwench
when was the last time you ran scandisk and defrag? how often do you reboot? did you reinstall ie?
Posted by: heyzeus2
i run scandisk and defrag all the time, at least once a week anyway. i have redownloaded and reinstalled ie several times.
i reboot everytime the computer locks up, which can be 1-5 times an hour. i dont usualy reboot when ie freezes because i can stop the frozen process in the device manager.
thanks for your help.
Posted by: NegotiatorSmith
Have you scanned for viruses/adware/spyware recently?
If you don't have an antivirus program, try a free online scan from here:
http://housecall.trendmicro.com
Here are two good anti adware/spyware programs:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot: Search and Destroy - http://security.kolla.de
Posted by: heyzeus2
thanks! i use both of those already, great programs.
i also have panda antivirus installed.
Posted by: NegotiatorSmith
Just curious... have you tried using a different browser, such as Mozilla? If you've tried using a different browser (I'm sure you can manage if you like IE  ) and this lockup problem has persisted, then most likely the problem has nothing to do with Internet Explorer and/or Windows itself.
Posted by: Bunmiadefisayo
just use a different browser, i have the same problem with my IE also and since it cant be uninstalled i jsut switched to Mizilla.
Posted by: heyzeus2
oh, geez. i never thought of that. never heard of mozilla either. i'll look into it.
thanks!
Posted by: redwench
make sure you run windows update, theyre always fixing something....
Posted by: heyzeus2
i ran a memtest and found no errors, but i wanted to mention that, after doing a number of things, my windows is running much better. i am still waiting for it to crash today, but so far so good.
i think the culprit was my 4 in 1 drivers, i rolled back to a much older version, and saw improvements right away.
as far as the internet explorer, belive it or not i think my sound card was affecting it. for instance, when running a repair on internet explorer the sb live splash screen would pop up causing a freeze. wierd cause this only pops up prior to windows start. i removed the splash screen program and reinstalled sound drivers. um, so far so good.
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