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Internet Explorer problems..

Post by Ary » Sat Oct 25, 2003 7:40 pm

Allright.. here's the thing. Since a few days ago, my internet explorer has been acting really weird. Whenever I click on a link in MSN, MSN freezes for about 10 seconds and the webpage doesn't show up untill it unfreezes. When I click on a link that opens a pop-up window, IE freezes. When I right click on the thing in the Start-bar, it shows up immediately. Also pages that have pop-ups screw up.
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6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633

Oh, I also ran a full virus scan with Norton Antivirus 2003, with updated Virus Definitions. I also ran a scan for trojans with a shareware program from download.com.
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Post by spoon » Sat Oct 25, 2003 8:15 pm

try reinstalling it, to see if it help at all. If not, Mozilla Firebird is cool anyway :shifty:
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Post by billf » Sat Oct 25, 2003 8:22 pm

First clear out your internet files. That's most likely the problem.
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Post by 7on » Sun Oct 26, 2003 12:22 am

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Post by Martin Blank » Sun Oct 26, 2003 2:11 am

billf's probably right. It sounds like a Temporary Internet Files issue, though it could also be an issue with the history or the cookies where the index file has become corrupted.
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Post by Ary » Sun Oct 26, 2003 10:40 am

So clear Internet Files and cookies? If so, where do I clear my cookies? Or do I have to do that manually?

EDIT: Links do open through IRC.

EDIT2: Awesome, it's working now! Thanks for the help, guys. =)

EDIT3: .. It's still not really working. Popups still make the explorer freeze and I still can't access my Inbox through MSN. Windows Update also doesn't show up. :S
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Post by adamjaskie » Sun Oct 26, 2003 3:15 pm

Bah. I always had problems when I used internet exploder. I switched to Mozilla, and havent looked back. Firebird is nice too, especially if you have a slower computer, it will run a lot faster (less than 1 ghz id say) than mozilla. Its basically a stripped down version of Mozilla, without all the extra stuff mozilla ships with (mail client, address book, irc program, etc)
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Post by Martin Blank » Sun Oct 26, 2003 3:48 pm

Internet files, cookies, and history are all cleared from the same panel from Tools | Internet Options.

Best popup blocker for IE is Google Toolbar.

What happens when you go to Windows Update? You may need to go to Internet Options | Advanced, and scroll to the bottom and make sure that SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 are checked. In the past, there was an occasion where I had to select TLS 1.0 to get Windows Update to work, but I'm not sure why, since it's not normally required.
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Post by Ary » Sun Oct 26, 2003 4:14 pm

It's not that I don't have a popupblocker, it shows up for a second and then gets closed. The thing is that when it shows up for a quick second it freezes. And Windows Update just doesn't do anything. When I click on it I get the mouse+hourglass thing for a quick second and then it just doesn't do anything. I just cleared Internet Files, Cookies & History.. didn't help though. The TLS 1.0 also didn't work.

I'd rather stick to IE than changing to Mozilla.
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Post by Interitus » Sun Oct 26, 2003 4:43 pm

Get rid of MSN. :)
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Post by TopCat » Sun Oct 26, 2003 7:57 pm

Oh.

I had a windows update problem.

Go and set your default language, young one.
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Post by Ary » Mon Oct 27, 2003 10:37 am

Allright.. so I cleared history, cookies & temporary internet files. It worked for a while, but after a reboot it started fucking up again. Any ideas? Only sites I've visited were sites I've visited long before the problem, so the visited sites can't be a problem.. can they?
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Post by billf » Mon Oct 27, 2003 10:43 am

How much free drive space do you have on the drive Internet Explorer is located on? If that is low (depending on your HD, but personally I like to keep about 20% of the drive free) then try and clean out some old junk you don't need or can at least stick on another drive.
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Post by Ary » Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:22 pm

I have about 8 GB free of a 40 gb disk.. So I don't that's the problem?
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Post by Martin Blank » Mon Oct 27, 2003 7:51 pm

Did you set the default language like Topcat suggested?
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