Windows Vista - IE9 ABSOLUTELY PARALYZED!!

I'm lucky to be typing this to you now via Google Groups. The Subj says itall. Over the last 6 months, Internet explorer has gone from crashing/unrecoverable once per month to once per HOUR. I have cleaned all Temp files and IE cookies & history and am at my wits end.

Any suggs would be helpful. My PC is a HP Pavilion with 3.5 gig RAM.

-ChrisCoaster

 

See if IE9 has any "Add-ons" and disable them.

If the browser has the equivalent of a "Safe Mode", starting with
only its own files, you could try that. (You may have two options
in the Start menu, for starting IE.)

Some software has a Repair capability, which again, is to try and
put it back in original condition. That's not the HP recovery
partition or anything. That should be a function of IE itself.
Sometimes, if you look in Control Panels/Add&Remove programs,
rather than "remove" for a program, there is "remove/repair"
and you can select repair.

I can see an example of a Repair procedure here, but the
articles on sites like this should be taken with a grain of
salt. In attempting to use recipes like this over the last
several weeks, I'm getting the impression not a lot of the
recipes are tested.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4443124_repair-internet-explorer.html

Paul

 

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Did the add-on thing, disabling all and adding back on only those I really needed.

Under programs in Vista IE does not appear.

-CC

 

There is a recipe here, but I wouldn't rush out and do it just yet.
I gather what that does, is populate the menu folder with shortcuts.
Perhaps a single shortcut is missing in the Menu folder and that
is why it is missing.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/159034-start-menu-restore-missing-default-shortcuts.html

The Single User Shortcuts file, has an Internet Explorer.lnk file in it,
which would be an example of a shortcut. That particular file points to

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

and you'd want to check whether the executable is actually present there
or not. I mean, maybe the link file is there, but there's no executable ?
Or maybe the link just points to the wrong place.

Perhaps it had something to do with repairing IE, but you don't
mention whether repairing was necessary or not.

Paul