Re: IE6 hangs on opening

Sorry I have been busy,

I haven't seen this one before so I hope someone else spots the problem
right away but I guess what is happening then is you start IE x number of
time before it finally shows and then at logoff or shutdown you find that it
has been "Running" x number of times but in the background. Does that sound
right?

Have you tried CTRL/ALT/DEL and select task manager to see how many
instances of IEXPLORE.EXE are running while you are using the machine? From
there you can switch to the instances and see if that does anything. I take
it you are not seeing any tabs appear in the taskbar at the bottom?

Do you have a homepage set and if you do is that where it eventually opens
up? If you don't can you go tools?internet options and the general tab and
change it? Alternatively you could use the programs tab and set the original
IE settings.
Try setting this as your homepage
http://www.charlietame.org/ie/windowsize.htm

What this does is set your browser window as big as it can get for your
screen resolution.

Are you starting IE from it's desktop icon? Have you tried right clicking on
that and selecting "Open home page" if that option is there? What about
going startbutton>run and type the word IEXPLORE then hit enter, does that
open it without problems? Have you tried the same thing but add a space
followed by a website such as www.charlietame.org/ie/windowsize.htm so it
reads
iexplore www.charlietame.org/ie/windowsize.htm - that may get you around
something that's left over from spyware and diverting IE from it's proper
course or opening small invisible windows.

Big clue would be the appearance of tabs or buttons on the task bar, even if
momentarily.

You may be the victims of something that is brand new so the spyware
detectors aren't finding it. Or there may be a very simple answer that I am
not seeing right now.

None of these suggestions should do any harm anyway.

Charlie


"JudyS" <JudyS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:25366002-DBD2-427E-AC82-E292E4C5E643@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Yes, The Tom Coyote forum had me download Spybot, Adware. Ewido, CCleaner
> and
> run all these programs then send in a HiJackThis log. They told me what to
> take off and then send in another log. The second HiJackThis log was
> clean. I
> was then given links to repair ie6 sites where I found how to run the
> ie.inf
> file to repair IE6. I am lost and it gets pretty frustrating.
>
> "Charlie Tame" wrote:
>
>> Judy have you also tried these other products, my experience is that they
>> all find things the others miss.
>>
>> SpyBot Search and Destroy
>> http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/
>> Microsoft Antispyware
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en
>> Important - LSP-Fix
>> http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
>>
>> Be aware that using either of these to actually remove spyware can result
>> in
>> some programs refusing to work, in other words "Free" programs that you
>> downloaded on condition you accepted ads and so called "Research" may get
>> broken and you might want to uninstall them first. Some spyware actually
>> breaks Windows trying to force it's way in and you should arm yourself
>> with
>> LSP-Fix before starting in case you lose internet connectivity.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Do you have any popup blocking software installed and have you tried
>> temporarily disabling Antivirus and Firewalls you may have.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
>> "JudyS" <JudyS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1627ED69-840C-47F9-8E17-C9B344908219@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >I have windows XP SP2. When I open ie6 the hour glass shows for a few
>> >seconds
>> > then disappears and nothing happens. Sometimes it will do this several
>> > times
>> > before the window finaly opens. Everything then seems to work fine
>> > until I
>> > go
>> > to log off user profile and shut down the computer. I can not log off
>> > until I
>> > close every windows that pops up saying that ie6 is not responding. If
>> > it
>> > takes me 5 times to open in the first place then I have to try 5
>> > different
>> > times to log off and go through a not responding window each time. I
>> > have
>> > done a through check with HiJackThis for adware, I have ran the ie.inf
>> > repair
>> > and still I am getting the same thing. Please help me find the problem
>> > and
>> > get it fixed.
>> >
>>
>>
>>


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