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| Thread ID: 45979 | 2004-06-09 04:06:00 | Internet explorer causing freeze? | Naraku Kasai (1028) | Press F1 |
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| 242979 | 2004-06-09 04:06:00 | Hi all, I got a laptop fairly recently and about a week ago when connected to the internet something strange happened - I had 2 pages open loading and went to open a third IE window. The window didn't open, the connections stopping sending/recieving and I could access anything on the startmenu bar down the bottom. The mouse pointer still moved and I could click things everywhere else on the screen - only they wouldn't open. I couldn't restart the computer or access the task manager through ctrl-alt-del. Leaving the computer for a bit thinking things would fix themselves and load di nothing and eventually I had to take the laptop off mains power and pull out the battery pack out of frustration. I assumed this was a one off incident and started over, but since then I've had it happen multiple times where with a page already up I got to open another and the connection dies completely and everything freezes up and I end up pulling out the battery pack - which can't be good.. Now today, completely unexpectedly after having this main computer for nearly a year it does EXACTLY the same thing. Connection dies while other pages are up, I try open another browser windows and it froze. I had to switch it off at the wall. This has now happened twice on this computer too. I keep my computer very tidy and it runs very well, I've never had a single (major) problem with this up until now and suddenly 2 computers get it. Is it some internet bug that's got through firewall and antivirus? I run 56k with Xtra, could it be network problems at that end? How does that explain the freezes? Is anyone else getting this problem? I'm stuck for ideas, I've run this computer with 30 or 40 browser windows running fine in the past. Thank you very much in advance, if you need more specs I can give them, everything is very new though. |
Naraku Kasai (1028) | ||
| 242980 | 2004-06-09 06:46:00 | Hi Naraku, The fact two different computers now have this problem is a bit odd. I take it you have checked for spyware/malware with Spybot Search & Destroy and/or Ad-aware 6? It is more likely to be some software based problem than hardware. What OS's and IE versions are you running? If nothing is found with the anti-spyware programs, you may want to try a different browser such as Mozilla Firefox (www.mozilla.org) and see if you get problems with opening up multiple tabs in that. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 242981 | 2004-06-09 07:29:00 | do your computers autoupdate from microsoft? maybe a patch has been released that screwed things up. the fact that it happens on 2 m/c's makes me wonder... well, if it is this then i'm sure they'll patch the patch sooner or later ;) i'd go with jen's suggestion of using a different browser too. firefox is very nice and so is opera. |
timo (5725) | ||
| 242982 | 2004-06-09 10:52:00 | Running winXP SP1 and IE6. Yes I use ad-aware, not a fan of Spybot though. I don't autoupdate through windows update, but I do use win update manually and have done some updates recently so I suppose this is possibly cuasing it knowing them.. I have tried Mozilla in the past and had too many problems with pages loading badly I reverted back. I've heard good things about IE2, but I suspect anything wrong with IE would be the same in IE2. I would rather not have to switch browser if possible, there is no way this is something I've done since it's happening on both computers - it if was mircosoft hopefully they'll fix it soon. It seems like a disagreement in IE and Outlook express and btween the 2, or something. Any other ideas will be appreciated, and thanks to both of you so far :) |
Naraku Kasai (1028) | ||
| 242983 | 2004-06-09 21:37:00 | I'd definitely go with Jen Cs suggestion of running Spybot,before doing anything drastic.Whether a fan of it or not. You certainly don't have to keep it after you have used it. And it may just surprise you by what it finds. As for other browsers, Google...FlashPeak Slimbrowser.... |
Capt.Hook (5586) | ||
| 242984 | 2004-06-10 10:56:00 | Hmm..just one thought - I have a feeling (not entirely sure) that the day the error started was the same day I bought a double phone jack thing that plugs into the phone jack, then has it so 2 cords can be plugged in at once. Do you think this could cause the connection go faulty on me? Surely that wouldn't be able to cause freezes, right? :/ | Naraku Kasai (1028) | ||
| 242985 | 2004-06-11 03:04:00 | I use a double phone jack plug,and suffer no ill effects. | Capt.Hook (5586) | ||
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