IE icon will not open IE

From: DJ (DJ_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:15:06 -0800

Hi everyone,
 
Since about two weeks ago now, I can not bring up IE using icons on my
desktop. The only way I can get it to come up is to go to my desktop and
right click on "My network Places", then go down to "explore". When the list
in the folder comes up, I can double click on IE there and it will come up.
This tells me my program is not corrupt (which, by the way, I have
uninstalled and reinstalled at least 3 times trying to fix this problem).
When I double click on the icon on the desktop, it makes the sound as if the
program is opening, then it immediately makes the sound like it is shutting
down. Nothing ever pops up or anything. It just immediately tries to open,
then immediately closes.
 
I have done every scan that I have seen everyone suggest to check for
hijackers, trojans, viruses, etc., etc.
 
I have also done all the checks on my system settings as people have
suggested in my previous posts. Everything has been set correctly.
 
I have Windows 2000 Professional and Internet Explorer 6.0 with the service
pak download. I have not installed anything onto my computer (except the
service pak when this all started happening) in the last few months - so I
know this is not a result of any new installation. Actually I have done
nothing different than usual. All of a sudden it did this!
 
The reason I am grasping for a solution is because in the past 5 days or so
(since I posted this question on another message board), I have had over 10
people e-mail me privately saying that they too have recently had this
problem with not being able to open IE from their icon. So something is going
on! I searched the microsoft site as recent as last Friday to see if I could
find an announcement about this problem. I didn't find anything.
 
Also, I do not know if this will help - but if I open more than one IE
window, I can not go back and forth from window to window from the toolbar
icons. I have to minimize each window and then I can pick whichever window I
want to maximize. It is all too time consuming and frustrating!
 
Can anyone help? I am by no means even close to an expert when it comes to
computers. But I can follow directions if anyone has any ideas. I would
GREATLY appreciate it!

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