Internet Explorer stops working

[Jerry Bol]

I am running Windows XP Home with IE 6.0. A week ago IE
started to behave oddly. On a reboot, after Windows starts
up, I can launch IE and my Service provider's home page
comes up and I can surf the WEB to any URL with no
problems. However after a period of several minutesminutes
IE just stops working. I cannot connect to my ISP or any
other site with the error message is that page cannot be
displayed - "Cannot find server or DNS error". ONLY after
a reboot of the PC does IE work again (for a few Minutes).

The ONE BIG EXCEPTION to all this, is that I can ALWAYS
Connect to a secure web site (HTTPS) even though I cannot
connect to a non-secure site.

I am using a router (Dlink DI-604) to connect my XP PC and
a Win98 PC to my ISP (cable company). The router seems to
be running OK and have patched it with the latest
firmware. No problem using Internet Explorer (5.5)on my
2nd PC (running windows 98) and no problems using OUtlook
Express on my XP PC or the Win98 PC.

I have Norton Anti-virus running and have run Anti spyware
software on the PC to eliminate any hijack software
(SPybot, lavasoft, PestPatrol).

Short of toasting the PC and reinstall of Windows XP not
sure how to solve this problem

 

[Johann]

I have a different problem I'd like to present to you:

(A)
I can't find iexplore.exe under the path C:\Program
Files\Internet Explorer.

(B)
I can't make a short cut on the desktop to iexplore.exe
because it doesn't find it.

(C)
But I can run iexplore.exe form start/run!!!

Are you familiar with this kind of behaviour?

Cheers
Jóhann

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

....

Are you familiar with this kind of behaviour?

Perhaps. (Several possibilities.)

I can run iexplore.exe form start/run!!!

Are you using XP too?

Run...
msinfo32 /category SWEnvLoadedModules

Then type ie to find: iexplore

Then press Ctrl-c to capture that line.

Finally paste it into a reply or a Notepad window for further analysis.

That will show you the version, size, date, and location of the loaded
module.

I can't make a short cut on the desktop to iexplore.exe
because it doesn't find it.

You shouldn't need to be able to browse to wherever it is in order
to make a shortcut for it. Once you have the full path from the previous
steps just paste that into the shortcut.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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