Chess Titans + Internet Explorer = Freeze, always

[Guest]

A few days ago I was playing Chess Titans, and then I opened up
Internet Explorer. Within a few seconds, Vista froze. Couldn't move
the mouse, CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't work. A hard reset was required.

Now today I was playing Chess Titans, and I tried opening up Internet
Explorer. Again, the system froze within a few seconds.

Forget IE, next time I hope I remember to open up Firefox instead.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Try running IE without addons enabled. Just type "internet" into the
start/search line and you will see that it is one of the options.

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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

 

[Mark]

It took me a long time, but I finally switched from IE to FF and I like it
much better. FF has tons of add-ons and they work. It even has an add-on
called IE tab for sites that require IE, which are very few, and displays
them flawlessly. FF is now my default browser, and IE is only there for
backup.

Mark

 

[Guest]

It took me a long time, but I finally switched from IE to FF and I like it
much better. FF has tons of add-ons and they work. It even has an add-on
called IE tab for sites that require IE, which are very few, and displays
them flawlessly. FF is now my default browser, and IE is only there for
backup.

On my other Win2K computer, I use FF by default. But for the Vista
computer, I wanted to give IE7 a chance, as it supposedly has a lot
better security. Do you think FF is still better security-wise than
IE7?

 

[Mark]

No question about it. Even by default it's more secure, but then if you go
through all of the security add-ons you can basically lock it down. Then
there's all the add-ons that improve functionality, and all these add-ons
work, no more coming here for the usual "disable your add-ons one by one"
rhetoric.

Mark

It took me a long time, but I finally switched from IE to FF and I like it
much better. FF has tons of add-ons and they work. It even has an add-on
called IE tab for sites that require IE, which are very few, and displays
them flawlessly. FF is now my default browser, and IE is only there for
backup.

On my other Win2K computer, I use FF by default. But for the Vista
computer, I wanted to give IE7 a chance, as it supposedly has a lot
better security. Do you think FF is still better security-wise than
IE7?