> re-installing IE 7.0 is advised.
Not at this point, no.
1. Does the behavior persist if you start IE in No Add-ons mode? To start
IE in No Add-ons mode:
=> Right-click on the blue IE desktop icon and select Start without
Add-ons; or
=> Start | (All) Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Internet
Explorer (No add-ons).
Troubleshooting and Internet ExplorerÂ’s (No Add-ons) Mode:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/07/25/678113.aspx
2. Does the behavior persist if you Reset IE Advanced settings (RIES)?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737 <= Read before using!
3. Does the behavior persist after rebooting into Safe Mode with Networking?
<=CAREFUL! ONLY REMAIN IN SAFE MODE WITH NETWORKING JUST LONG ENOUGH TO
TEST!!
4. Which was installed first, IE7 or SP3?
—
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client – since 2002
www.banthecheck.com
Kathy wrote:
> XP HOME, SP3
> IE 7.0, tabs enabled
> Temporary Internet Files set to 150 MB
> Check for newer versions of stored pages: Automatically
>
> Recently, within the past couple of weeks, IE quit responding. It hangs
> so
> I leave a copy of Windows Task Manager open to see which windows are NOT
> RESPONDING. Sometimes if I just wait long enough they will start
> responding
> again. But other times I just have to close them all down (closing 1 IE
> window closes them all) and restart IE.
>
> Also during this time period I noticed that clicking the middle mouse
> button
> opens a new Window rather than a new Tab as it had in the past. I believe
> there is a setting that tells it to do that but haven’t been able to find
> it
> in Interenet Explorer | Tools | Internet Options or in the Mouse section
> of
> Control Panel. Anyway I just wamted to see the setting because I
> certainly
> do not recall changing it. And, yes, I am the only user of this computer.
>
> I recently set the Paging size to 150. It was set to 2500 or something
> like
> that. I should have written it down but didn’t. I don’t recall changing
> the paging size. Could that have happened automatically? I mean, maybe
> some message popped up that page size was too small and asked to bump it
> up.
> I COULD have responded to go ahead and do that but I really don’t recall.
> And it wouldn’t have been recently anyhow.
>
> In the same two week period (and a couple of weeks before) the computer
> was
> responding very slowly. So I was thinking that maybe my hard drive was
> too
> full. So I started moving stuff to my H drive (640 gig external drive.)
> And renaming the files left on C that were moved to [name].del so I would
> know that they could be deleted if everything seemed to be going all
> right.
> So far I have not deleted any of them. They are all in my documents
> folders
> anyhow. No program folders. Also have Spyware Detector running and
> finding
> no bad spyware. And Norton AntiVirus, corporate edition. My company
> allows
> us to use the corporate edition because we connect to the company web
> sites
> from home and they don’t want us infecting the corporate files.
>
> Changing the page size has made the most difference. Well, of course,
> moving the folders to H drive didn’t make an iota of difference since all
> the folders are still on the C drive as well. But I did defrag C. Maybe
> that helped. I’m not really sure. Let me say here that twice in the past
> 2
> years my computer has had to be "rebuilt" software wise and my computer
> store guys (nope, not Best Buy!) created a large folder called "Recovered"
> in one folder the first time and "Recovered" in another folder the second
> time. So there is a lot of duplication and even possibly triplication for
> those I may have restored.
>
> OK, so what’s my question. Well, I wondered if either installing IE 8.0
> or
> re-installing IE 7.0 is advised.
>
> I found some posts about installing IE 8.0 and have put them in .doc files
> on my QuikLaunch toolbar so I would be able to see the information if the
> install wasn’t going successfully. I would welcome any advice. Maybe
> something I can check on to help narrow the scope of the problem?
>
> OK, I hope that’s enough information. Please ask if more is needed.
>
> Thanks so much!
