IE6 hangs on opening

[Guest]

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.

 

[Charlie Tame]

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/...a2-6a57-4c57-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.

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Do you have any popup blocking software installed and have you tried
temporarily disabling Antivirus and Firewalls you may have.

Charlie

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

I have exactly the same problem as JudyS and have tried all the suggestions
from Charlie Tame. It is frustrating to have to sit and wait for each
non-responsive ie6 warning. Any other ideas please.

 

[Charlie Tame]

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

 

[Guest]

Charlie,
Thanks so much for your post. I have tried pretty much everything that you
have suggested. I now use the about:blank instead of any homepage. I am
having much less problems with IE opening but once in awhile it still hangs.

 

[Charlie Tame]

Well it looks like there are a few glitches going around so keep checking
windows update, here is an example

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823386

Charlie

 

[Guest]

I had actually seen this before. Told you I tried everything! This says it
applies to IE6 SP1 and I updated to SP2 awhile back so I was not sure if this
would still apply. So far lately everything is working pretty good but I hold
my breath each time I open IE6. I will keep the updates current. Thanks.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

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

Please describe this procedure or post a link to a description of it.

and still I am getting the same thing. Please help me find the problem and
get it fixed.

You haven't mentioned basic maintenance. E.g. delete TIF and History,
then do a chkdsk, then defrag your harddrive, then resize the TIF to be
something more manageable (using Internet Properties in Control Panel
before opening IE or a new TIF would be started using the old size).

Another cause of delay may be loading your registry. In that case
rebuilding your profile could be a useful thing to do. In fact, testing
with a new user account would be a useful way of isolating some of
the variables in your problem symptoms and show you how appropriate
this tack might be. However, there would be a useful comparison only
if you deleted your TIF and History as suggested above.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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[Guest]

what procedure do you mean? HiJackThis or ie.inf?
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x Repair for Windows XP

From the Start menu, select Search, select All Files and Folders.
Select More Advanced Options and place a checkmark beside Search Hidden
Files and Folders option.
Ensure that Search System Folders and Search Subfolders are also checked.
In the All or Part of the File Name box, type ie.inf
In the Look In drop-down menu, select C: or the letter of the hard drive
that contains the Windows folder.
Click the Search button.
In the search results pane, find the ie.inf file located in Windows\Inf
folder.
Right click the ie.inf file and click Install on the context menu.
Reboot the computer when the file copy process is complete.

The HijackThis is a download that McAfee suggested I try to clean any adware
off my computer. They gave me the link to Tom Coyote forums. They were a
great help. When my log from hjt was finally clean they gave me the link to
some repair sites for windows XP