Constant crashes since installing IE7

spookmeister

It could be a coincidence but Internet Explorer freezes constantly and sometimes crashes without notice. Anyone got any thoughts about what to try or do.

I am tempted to uninstall and continue using IE6.??

I am using WinXP.

Cheers all.

S.



MSE rocks!!!!

thomas01155

unistall ie7 and put ie6 put on lol

crox

use firefox ;-)

alanrowell

crox wrote:

use firefox ;-)

What - it had a security hole in it last week, it's unsafe unlike IE which NEVER has any security problems

LongDongDave

spookmeister wrote:

It could be a coincidence but Internet Explorer freezes constantly and sometimes crashes without notice. Anyone got any thoughts about what to try or do.

I am tempted to uninstall and continue using IE6.??

I am using WinXP.

Cheers all.

S.

MSE rocks!!!!

Hi, i'm still using IE6, and that's only *IF* i HAVE to....just for those internet banking accounts that don't allow other browsers. Just move on to another browser... unless you have to. Now for your problem, IE (6 or 7) is integrated into the main XP OS system, so uninstalling it could cause other major problems. Have you tried "system restore"? Not as bad as it sounds, just takes you back to before you installed IE7...Start-->Help-->Pick a task--> Stystem Restore---> pick a day from before you made the changes.
HTH

chunter

alanrowell wrote:

What - it had a security hole in it last week, it's unsafe unlike IE which NEVER has any security problems

twisting?:j

I do a few reformats and I'll generally stick Firefox on to anyone's pc with any computer competence.
For the ordinary punter it's IE 6.something.

Put another way, people who drive a BMW XBOX get IE6...

kat21

make sure you have the correct release candidate of IE7, I havent had any problems with it but, I am a beta tester for microsoft, check for updates too. its a nice browser with some good features. The other browser I use is firefox torpark.
kat21

crox

alanrowell wrote:

What - it had a security hole in it last week, it's unsafe unlike IE which NEVER has any security problems

Old news, bad news, wrong news, see
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11416?ref=rss
for details.

Quote:
'The presentation was intended mainly as a joke, Spiegelmock said in the statement, in which he apologized.

"The main purpose of our talk was to be humorous," the 19-year-old researcher said in the statement. "As part of our talk we mentioned that there was a previously known Firefox vulnerability that could result in a stack overflow ending up in remote code execution. However, the code we presented did not in fact do this, and I personally have not gotten it to result in code execution, nor do I know of anyone who has."'

spookmeister

kat21 wrote:

make sure you have the correct release candidate of IE7....check for updates too.
kat21

Excuse me??

How do I know what and where the correct release candidate is?

I also agree it does have some great features, but there is one thing that is frustrating. When you click on a link in any given website the software opens up a new window - not a new tab!

Can that be overriden?

S.

Zahc

spookmeister wrote:

Excuse me??

How do I know what and where the correct release candidate is?

I also agree it does have some great features, but there is one thing that is frustrating. When you click on a link in any given website the software opens up a new window - not a new tab!

Can that be overriden?

S.

Tools, internet options, tabs settings button, and set them how you like.
Or click your mouse wheel on the link you want to open.

Zahc

oldwiring

alanrowell wrote:

What - it had a security hole in it last week, it's unsafe unlike IE which NEVER has any security problems

I think you'll find it was a jole hoax. Also you may find comment on that in many palces among them
http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6648315.html