IE 6 Not Responding For Non-Administrators

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With Windows XP Sp1, everything works 100%.

The moment I install XP SP2, IE 6 starts acting flakey for non-Administrator
users. It opens, and can surf to a couple different sites, but by the third
or fourth site, it goes to NOT RESPONDING and hangs. Have to kill the
process manually.

I have done a lot of checking for virii and spyware and none are found.

I've also tried to "ghost" my system back to its pre-SP2 state and have
reinstalled SP2 numerous times. Everything always works until I install SP2.

I've seen many people complain about the NOT RESPONDING issue, but for me it
only happens for non-Administrator level accounts.
 
Have you run CWShredder and Ad-awareSE and Spybot? Does BHO Demon find any
suspicious BHOs?
BHODemon 2.0: http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm

May not help, but won't hurt. Delete the TIF folders for those limited
users.
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

Have you posted a HijackThis log to one of the forums where HJT logs are
analyzed?
HijackThis instructions and download:
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

Forums:
http://forum.mvps.org/ Excellent help- low traffic. Visit
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=4075 before posting the log.

http://tomcoyote.com/forums/
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
http://boards.cexx.org/
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/index.php
http://computercops.biz/forum67.html

Try disabling any other programs that would be interacting with IE-
ad-blockers, AV, security/privacy, etc. A third party program may need an
update to work with XP SP2.

Does a new account, created after XP SP2 have the problem?

Hope this helps,
Don
 
It's definitely not spyware. To verify this, I've done fresh installs of
Windows SP1 and SP2 several times over.

Initially, I discovered that the freezing went away when I removed the proxy
server from IE configuration. But the proxy server isn't to blame (It works
100% with any SP1 PC, and also to be complete I tried a few other proxy
servers).

I then discovered that I can in fact use the proxy server provided I do not
set this policy in GPEDIT.MSC:

Make proxy settings per machine (rather than per user) : Enabled

If that is enabled in SP1, everything works fine. If it is enabled in SP2,
and I login as a regular user (non Admin) I can surf to some sites, but after
a few the browser will always hang and go not responding.

Sounds like a definite bug to me!
 
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