IE freezes when starting the application

[Stuart Sargeant]

HELP!!!!

I hope someone can help me as this is driving me nuts!

My problem is with IE6 on a windows xp home machine.

When I double click on the internet explorer icon, the
Browser opens as normal. On the bottom of the IE window,
it says connecting to ip address then www.msn.co.uk (My
home page). The green status bar moves to the first notch
and the freezes. After about 1-2 mins, it eventually
opens the page and then the browser works as normal.

If I open another IE window (even with the first still
open), the same thing happens again. It freezes at the
same point and then after 1-2 mins, works fine.

This also happens with any other application that trys to
access the internet, like windows media player. The
application will hang for the same ammount of time, then,
eventaully open and works as normal.

My pc has just started doing this last week and I have
not installed any other software in the mean time.

And I have broadband so it not the speed of the line, as
everything works fine after the 1-2 min.

Any help would be very very welcome!

Thanks
Stuart

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
HELP!!!!

I hope someone can help me as this is driving me nuts!

My problem is with IE6 on a windows xp home machine.

When I double click on the internet explorer icon, the
Browser opens as normal. On the bottom of the IE window,
it says connecting to ip address then www.msn.co.uk (My
home page). The green status bar moves to the first notch
and the freezes. After about 1-2 mins, it eventually
opens the page and then the browser works as normal.

If I open another IE window (even with the first still
open), the same thing happens again. It freezes at the
same point and then after 1-2 mins, works fine.

This also happens with any other application that trys to
access the internet, like windows media player. The
application will hang for the same ammount of time, then,
eventaully open and works as normal.

My pc has just started doing this last week and I have
not installed any other software in the mean time.

And I have broadband so it not the speed of the line, as
everything works fine after the 1-2 min.

Any help would be very very welcome!

Thanks
Stuart
.
Sounds like your machine is full of scumware

Download and update Ad-Aware,spybot,CWShredder and
spysweeper.Run all of these as each one finds scumware
that the other misses. With a bit of luck your machine
will be purring like a kitten

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----

Download and update Ad-Aware,spybot,CWShredder and
spysweeper.Run all of these as each one finds scumware
that the other misses. With a bit of luck your machine
will be purring like a kitten
.

I have spybot installed and updated to the latest
version. Would ad-ware and the others have different
protection to spybot?

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----


I have spybot installed and updated to the latest
version. Would ad-ware and the others have different
protection to spybot?
.
Sure do. Try CWShredder First.If that does'nt fix it try

the others in turn.Good Luck

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
try
the others in turn.Good Luck
.

Thanks for your help!