Did you recently have occasion to do a Repair Install of WinXP?
What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your
subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)?
What third-party firewall (if any)? Were any of these applications running
in the background when you installed SP3?
Has a(another) Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on the
computer (e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought
it)?
Does the behavior persist after doing a reset?...
HOW TO Reset Internet Explorer (IE6)
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Note: The following will delete all cookies. To save them beforehand: IE
File | Import and Export | Export Cookies | save the file in an appropriate
location. To import the backup afterwards: IE File | Import and Export |
Import Cookies | point the wizard to the saved file.
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1. After closing all IE windows, click Start, Run, type: “inetcpl.cpl”
(without quotation marks) and press Enter.
2. Select the General tab, and in the Temporary Internet files window, click
"Delete Cookies", and click OK.
3. In the same tab click Delete Files, check the "Delete all offline
contents" box and click OK.
4. Click the Programs tab, and click "Reset Web Settings".
5. Click the Advanced tab, and click "Restore Defaults".
6. Under the Advanced tab, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions
(requires restart)".
7. Click OK.
8. Reboot.
Also see
http://www.malwarehelp.org/how-to-reset-internet-explorer-6-to.html
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
www.banthecheck.com
joe wrote:
> XP Pro SP3 IE6
>
> I have just installed all the new critical updates. Now, on ocassion,
> after
> a web page has almost loaded the browser simply shuts down.
> No particular website , no sense at all. Must be something in the updates.
> Any ideas what?