e-mail links to forums

[Guest]

This relates to a closing down problem using XP Home SP2 and all updates. PC
is Athlon XP2400 with 1GB of memory.

Recently when closing down I am seeing a dialog box saying IXEPLORE is
closing then not responding, sometime I have to click on "end now" many times
before Windows eventually closes down. I'm not certain how long but I'm sure
that it is less than a week.

Today I attempted to close down immediately after booting, I saw the dialog
box appear briefly but did not have to interact before windows shut down.

My firewall is Zone Alarm free and Anti Virus Avast Pro.

I have Spyware Doctor & Spyware Blaster active to block malware.


I have discovered that when using an e-mail link to a forum (Two tested)
that closing the web page leaves an instance of iexplore.exe showing in the
processes in TaskManager. Opening a web page direct and closing it removes
the instance of iexplore.exe in the process list.

This results in when closing down a non responding case of iexplore.exe to
be ended for each e-mail link used.

Is it due to the latest updates I wonder, it didn't occur before.

Albie

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi Albye,

Are you using the msn or yahoo toolbar with tabbed browsing? For the MSN
toolbar reset the toolbar layout option on the tools button. There is no fix
yet for the Yahoo toolbar as it is still a beta product.

Regards.

 

[Guest]

No I use neither, I have worked around by installing IE7, thank you for the
suggestion
Albie