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Internet Explorer hangs on opening

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sfhlawes

Flightless Bird
Just today IE 8 would no longer open the home page (or any other website). I
removed IE 8 and went back to IE 7 and problem is the same.

(Also using Outlook (which works fine) when clicking on a hyperlink to a web
address then Outlook hangs too)

I've tried resetting the internet options, also restoring system to earlier
in the week, but all make no difference.

Lastly I'm using XP.

Advice eagerly welcomed!

Steve Lawes
 
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Don Varnau

Flightless Bird
Hi,
Work through this article:
Tips for solving problems with Internet Explorer [IE7 - IE8]:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Tips-for-solving-problems-with-Internet-Explorer#

If no joy after those procedures, download, unzip and run ie8-rereg from
http://iefaq.info/index.php?action=artikel&cat=35&id=133&artlang=en
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Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]


"sfhlawes" <sfhlawes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B9CBB449-E76B-43DD-B827-E2951EEF8D96@microsoft.com...
> Just today IE 8 would no longer open the home page (or any other website).

I
> removed IE 8 and went back to IE 7 and problem is the same.
>
> (Also using Outlook (which works fine) when clicking on a hyperlink to a

web
> address then Outlook hangs too)
>
> I've tried resetting the internet options, also restoring system to

earlier
> in the week, but all make no difference.
>
> Lastly I'm using XP.
>
> Advice eagerly welcomed!
>
> Steve Lawes
 
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Paul Calcagno

Flightless Bird
Running Vista Home Premium SP2, 2 GB of RAM, IE or Firefox.

I've had similar problems with my system so I read this thread and then
looked in the link you provided regarding troubleshooting IE (Tips for
solving problems with IE708). The only problem is the link has bogus
information because inside of Control panel when you do a search on
`Troubleshooter' Windows has nothing like that. Just thought you should
know. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I don't think so .

Here's a portion of what's inside the link: `Open the Internet Explorer
Performance troubleshooter by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start
button, and then clicking Control Panel. In the search box, type
troubleshooter, and then click Troubleshooting. Click View all, and then
click Internet Explorer Performance'.

Typing `troubleshooter' reveals exactly nothing...............Paul C.

"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
news:#ri7q4foKHA.3792@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> Work through this article:
> Tips for solving problems with Internet Explorer [IE7 - IE8]:
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Tips-for-solving-problems-with-Internet-Explorer#
>
> If no joy after those procedures, download, unzip and run ie8-rereg from
> http://iefaq.info/index.php?action=artikel&cat=35&id=133&artlang=en
> -
> Hope this helps,
> Don
> [MS MVP- IE]
>
>
> "sfhlawes" <sfhlawes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B9CBB449-E76B-43DD-B827-E2951EEF8D96@microsoft.com...
>> Just today IE 8 would no longer open the home page (or any other
>> website).

> I
>> removed IE 8 and went back to IE 7 and problem is the same.
>>
>> (Also using Outlook (which works fine) when clicking on a hyperlink to a

> web
>> address then Outlook hangs too)
>>
>> I've tried resetting the internet options, also restoring system to

> earlier
>> in the week, but all make no difference.
>>
>> Lastly I'm using XP.
>>
>> Advice eagerly welcomed!
>>
>> Steve Lawes

>
 
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