Browser will only send error report - will not launch.

[Loren]

I am experiencing a problem where I.E. 5.5.sp2 will not
launch. Everytime I attempt to launch it wants to send an
error report to MicroSoft and that's all it does. I have
tried re-installing the browser 3 times and have tried
upgrading to I.E. 6 sp 1. Nothing works. Right now I am
using Mozilla to access the Microsoft site and post this to
the newsgroup. Ironic huh?

 

[Evgeny]

I have had the same problem yesterday. I have found a solution in this
group:

From IE> Tools> Internet Options
or
Control Panel> Internet Options> Advanced> uncheck "Enable third party
browser extensions."
It relly works
Regards
Evgeny

I'm having the exact same problem. It happened all of a sudden about 2

days ago. I did a virus scan and have found nothing. I reinstalled
Explorer, and nothing works.

I am accessing this from a Netscape browser, which I had to download

specifically to figure out how to fix Explorer.

I'm going to have to instruct all of my programs to oupn stuff using

Netscape. When trying to access Help files from any other application,
Explorer will not even launch.

 

[Guest]

I started having the same problems yesterday. I have uninstalled and reinstalled IE 6. It now effects a few other programs that I try to run, namely Outlook and Photosmart. It constantly brings up Windows Installer and asks for a disk. Although they typically run without the disk, this is very frustrating. Anyone have a solution?

 

[Guest]

We had this same problem yesterday. We found the solution that worked for us in this discussion group. Type in the url http://00hq.com. At the bottom of the page click on Unistall Winshow Popups, that should fix the problem. I see a lot of people are having this problem. Hope this works for you.

----- Loren wrote: -----

I am experiencing a problem where I.E. 5.5.sp2 will not
launch. Everytime I attempt to launch it wants to send an
error report to MicroSoft and that's all it does. I have
tried re-installing the browser 3 times and have tried
upgrading to I.E. 6 sp 1. Nothing works. Right now I am
using Mozilla to access the Microsoft site and post this to
the newsgroup. Ironic huh?

 

[H Leboeuf]

This will only disable the 3rd party browser extension, required on some
genuine sites.

Deal with your parasites.

Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

 

[H Leboeuf]

IE 6.

Try this: Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing
Uncheck the Enable 3rd party browser extensions

If this clears your problem then find out who the culprit(s) is/are with
these tools.

Let AD-Aware Scan your system for advertising Spyware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

and:

SpyBot-S&D
http://security.kolla.de/

p.s Reset the 3rd party browser setting.

More: This may be caused by a third-party program (adware, spyware,
parasite).
Get AdAware and SpyBot and run them both. Keep them up to date.
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

 

[H Leboeuf]

IE 6.

Try this: Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing
Uncheck the Enable 3rd party browser extensions

If this clears your problem then find out who the culprit(s) is/are with
these tools.

Let AD-Aware Scan your system for advertising Spyware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

and:

SpyBot-S&D
http://security.kolla.de/

p.s Reset the 3rd party browser setting.

More: This may be caused by a third-party program (adware, spyware,
parasite).
Get AdAware and SpyBot and run them both. Keep them up to date.
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

I'm having the exact same problem. It happened all of a sudden about 2

days ago. I did a virus scan and have found nothing. I reinstalled
Explorer, and nothing works.

I am accessing this from a Netscape browser, which I had to download

specifically to figure out how to fix Explorer.

I'm going to have to instruct all of my programs to oupn stuff using

Netscape. When trying to access Help files from any other application,
Explorer will not even launch.

 

[H Leboeuf]

http://00hq.com is used by this parasites. Beware.

CoolWebSearch - CWS http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/
More: Complete list by variant with up-to-date information.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html
More: Removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
More: Removal tool:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.bootconf.html
More: http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=640

We had this same problem yesterday. We found the solution that worked for

us in this discussion group. Type in the url http://00hq.com. At the bottom
of the page click on Unistall Winshow Popups, that should fix the problem.
I see a lot of people are having this problem. Hope this works for you.