Re: IE6 Crashes OT

From: LuckyStrike (LS_at_smokedamagedfurniture.youcandriveitawaytoday.com)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:10:22 -0600

Peter -

I had looked at your initial post, but declined to reply as it seemed "out
of my league". XP is not a system I am really at all familiar with. The
first question one is inclined to ask is if you've done all of the customary
scans for malware/parasites on that system. Assuming that "all things being
the same" as you so poetically penned, it is unlikely that W98se (or the
previous W9.x systems) would fare so well without stringent spyware/malware
housecleaning. Therefore I would *guess* that your XP is clean. That being
the case, I am at a loss to really determine a cause for that slowdown as
you've described.

As far as adding the SP2 update goes, I would say Caveat Emptor on that.
There seems to be a number of systems which have gotten "broken" by that
update. I would hold off for a while until things are sorted, and the "Pros"
find the way to fix it and that which it broke. Unlikely to remedy your
symptoms anyway; most persons with XP before this update had systems which
worked fine. Why should yours be an exception?

If a bolt of lightning in the form of an epiphany strikes me, I'll get back
on this. 

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"peter gant" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:938901c496e6$70c54f00$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> sorry to barge in. would lucky strike and jan like to help
> me with the following problem of IE6 'not responding'.
> i've licked every problem i had with dos 5 & 6, win 3.1,
> 3.11 for workgroups, 95 and 98. but this one with xp is
> just like having to play andy rod*** on his service game!
>
> this is what i had posted under the subject heading 'A
> Clue to IE Not Responding':
>
> I just noticed something that might give you a clue as to
> what is causing the hourglass syndrome in IE6.
> The 'freezing' is NOT one that is absolutely fatal. After
> about three minutes, IE resurrects itself and starts
> responding normally. I had previously been too quick to
> end the process by way of task manager, thinking it was an
> irrecoverable error.) Now, I always keep task manager in
> the foreground. Whenever the hourglass syndrome appears
> and IE freezes momentarily, task manager shows TWO
> identical application tasks that are 'not responding'. For
> example, if one instance of IE is frozen whilst attempting
> to connect to www.google.com, task manager will show TWO
> identical application tasks attempting to connect to
> www.google.com and both are 'not responding'.
> Subsequently, when IE comes to itself and
> does successfully connect to google, task manager will
> automatically show only ONE application task connecting to
> www.google.com that is 'running'. Is this a clue to the
> problem? thanks.
>
> [running IE 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633IC with
> Q818506, Q823353 and Q871260. urlmon, wininet,
> mshtml=1459. browseui=1577. most of the other dlls=1106]
> (latest versions of cwshredder,
> adaware and spybot, in that order, gave a clean bill of
> health.]
>
> Another thing: i set up a separate pc on 98SE and used
> windows update to install all available fixes just like i
> did with the XP pc. everything, all programs, similar to
> the dot. IE 6 NEVER EVER froze even once. ceteris paribus,
> the problem is IE6 on XP. would xp_sp2 solve the problem?
>
>
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