Re: browser window shuts down

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 05:06:16 -0500

"Mikey" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1b06a01c41fa9$5c832850$a501280a@phx.gbl
> Please Help!
>
> Recently installed IE6. Trouble starts when try to get
> into Hotmail. Can get into the main MSN window, but when
> try to log into hotmail itself, IE gets to the blue
> background, it encounters an error, and shuts down.
>
> The brower window closes, and I am presented with this
> message: "Microsoft Internet Explorer has encountered a
> problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the
> inconvenience."
>
> I have the option of restarting explorer, and if I send an
> error report. I have done this repeatedly, but now don't
> bother as it seems an absolute waste of time - it is the
> same problem occuring over and over and over!
>
> Incidently, it only affects the browser window that I use
> to access hotmail. I have have many others open at the
> same time, yet these are unaffected.

See http://windows-help.net/WindowsXP/troub-10.html
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers2.htm#secure_sites
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/data/jjblack.htm
HOW TO: Troubleshoot Situations Where You Cannot Connect to Secure Web Sites
by Using Internet Explorer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813444
"The Page Cannot Be Displayed" Error Message on a Secure Web Site
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303807 

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