No Internet Explorer 7 downloads and crashes unless ran asadministrator

[DC]

Hi,

on my new Dell Vostro with Vista Ultimate (all recent patches) I am
not able to download any files. I get a message that the page could
not be opened after a while. Also, I don't have to surf far to get a
crash.

When I activate the "run as administrator" check-box of the IE7 link,
everything works perfect. I guess running IE as admin isn't the best
idea though.

Any suggestion how I could fix this? TIA,

DC

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Bad plugin/addon is the likely cause. Tools/Manage Addons/Enable or Disable,
start disabling those that load with IE.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[webster72n]

Hi,

Bad plugin/addon is the likely cause. Tools/Manage Addons/Enable or
Disable, start disabling those that load with IE.

Glad you mentioned it.
When I was confronted with the choice to accept plug-ins or add-ons, I
wasn't sure which way to go at first, but then decided against it, following
an 'instinct', without knowing the reason. You have given it to me now,
thank you.

Harry.

 

[DC]

Hi,

Bad plugin/addon is the likely cause. Tools/Manage Addons/Enable or Disable,
start disabling those that load with IE.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -www.rickrogers.org
My thoughtshttp://rick-mvp.blogspot.com










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Thanks Rick! I have already tried to disable the addins - at least the
"loaded" addins. I will retry reloading all addins. Is it true that I
can only disable one by one addin (e.g. there is no global "addins
off" switch)? Are "plugins" something different? I did not notice a
switch for plugins.

Regards
DC

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Addons = Plugins, both terms refer to the same thing. You should do one at a
time and restart IE between each in order to isolate the problem. To ensure
that this actually is the problem, simple type "Internet Explorer" into the
start/search lines and choose the entry to load it without addons and see if
the problem is cleared.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[DC]

Hi,

Addons = Plugins, both terms refer to the same thing. You should do one at a
time and restart IE between each in order to isolate the problem. To ensure
that this actually is the problem, simple type "Internet Explorer" into the
start/search lines and choose the entry to load it without addons and see if
the problem is cleared.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -www.rickrogers.org
My thoughtshttp://rick-mvp.blogspot.com








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Hi Rick, not luck: I started IE without any plugins, still no
downloads and many crashes. Any other ideas?

Regards
DC

 

[DC]

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Thanks, Dave.

I did already uninstall the Norton trial version that came with this
new machine, viruschecker does not seem to be the problem.

In the meantime I found another way to avoid the problems without
running IE as administrator: when I set the security to custom level
(by removing the "acivate protected mode" option in the security tab)
then everything works fine. But I guess that's not such a good idea.

Is this a clue for the source of the problems (i. e. crashed, no
downloads and even some images are not being displayed in protected
mode)?

Regards
DC