IE 6.0 freezes

[Al]

I've been having a lot of trouble with IE 6.0. It works
fine, although slowly, until I open a new window or pop-
up. Then, it locks up and needs to be closed. I see
other postings in this newsgroup, suggesting that I visit
the pctools.com website for spyware remover. Problem is,
I'm already running Webroot's Spysweeper software.

Another problem is that I keep getting popups from
winfirewall.com or winantivirus.com. When I try to close
these popups, IE locks up. I'm sure I could download the
product they're selling, and it would probably
(miraculously) cure this pop-up, but I have issues with
this type of strong-arm tactic.

Help!!

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Al

Try the following and see if it helps:

Clearing the TIF Cache -

Safely Delete the Temporary Internet Files
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

The temporary I.E. files folder is a cache for web pages that you have
visited. I don't know why Microsoft sets the default so high, but I have
seen 2gb set for storage. This and other setting can be changed to decreace

the size of the storage area, and supposedly delete the I.E. temp file when
you close the browser.

The Cache
http://sweb.uky.edu/~wvang00/sayre/cache.htm

Temporary Internet Files / Cache
http://www.desilva.biz/misc/iecache.html?s=d8d31b07730bc3e8353b5a2246b41f93

Alex Nichol -

Temporary means Temporary. Ones in the regular TEMP environmental
variable folders can be cleaned out as soon as the program that uses
them exits. It is advisable not to do this automatically at the
'autoexec' level, because some software installs leave some files
there for use when the system reboots. But I have a 'clean it up'
batch file that I run in the registry HKLM Run key

Ones in Temp Files are only needed should you be likely to go back to
the page. In Internet Options - Settings button I suggest cutting the
space allowed down - say 50 MB is plenty - and leave it to its own
devices.

also.............

TIF & Cookies Information -

Alex Nichol -

TIF and Cookies are in quite separate physical folders.

But in XP if you open TIF either direct in Explorer or via the TIF
Settings button - 'view files' in Internet Options, the contents of
Cookies is included. They are not deleted though if you use the
'Delete files' in Internet Options - there is a separate Delete
Cookies button.

(Aside - the above Delete Files and Delete Cookies buttons are also in
the IE6 and IE SP1 on the Tools | Internet Options | General tab)

Mike Maltby -

For those using Outlook Express it is however essential that the
Temporary Internet Files, including "All offline content" be
periodically emptied as OE dumps two files in TIF for each message displayed
regardless of whether it is html or plain text. For those working
newsgroups the number of these
files can rapidly build up. This behaviour started with IE5.5 and
remains in the latest RC2 version of IE6.

Alex Nichol -

I don't usually use Outlook Express. But have just experimented,
emptying TIF and then using OE (XP SP2 RC2) to get in the daily SPAM
on my spam trap address, look at one or two in plain text and connect
to the BING newsgroups and look at a few messages there (both preview
and launch into their own windows), and I could not find any
indication of any new file when I went back to look in TIF after
closing OE

Wesley Vogel -

When you empty the Temporary Internet Files folder in Internet
Explorer, files that start with the word "Cookie" may remain in the
folder.

These files are pointers to the actual cookies that are located in
the Windows\Cookies folder. To retain the association between these
pointers and the actual cookie files, they are not deleted when you
empty the Temporary Internet Files folder. However, if you manually
delete a cookie file from the Temporary Internet Files folder, both
the pointer to the Cookies folder and the cookie file located in the
Cookies folder are deleted.

Sandi Hardmeier
This may help explain...
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers3.htm#Cache

Safely Delete the Temporary Internet Files
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm
clear out temporary files and delete cookies.
http://www.pchell.com/support/privacy.shtml
Computer Health
http://www.aumha.org/a/health.php#tip6

Deleting Cookies ................

I get an error saying my browser is not set to accept cookies, but it is!
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm#cookies

Recreating the cache, history and cookie folders when corrupted
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers_8.htm#deltree

See http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm#cookies and
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers_8.htm#deltree

If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
with the details and any error messages.

Hope this helps

Jan
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[Guest]

I was having a very similar problem with popups from winfirewall.com or
winantivirus.com, they would completely cover the web page that I was trying
to get to, I would get them when accessing any of symantec web pages or
anything else related to anti-virus. I have tried the solutions suggested
here and also on other web sites, including running spybot and adaware and
norton antivirus scans in safe mode. Here is specifically how I was finally
able to fix it:

Run free SpyBot-S&D 1.2.
Click Tools tab from bottom of left panel.
Select Hosts file from left panel (under Tools)
From top of Host File page, click Add Spybot-S&D hosts list

I hope this helps, it worked for me.
jp

 

[Guest]

Actually, the fix was only temporary, I'm having same popups now, but when
accessing different web pages.
Sorry...