IE not responding

[Dumb Bunny]

I am running Vista Home Premium with IE7.
Roughly 3 times out of 10 when I click on IE to bring it to the screen it
gets as far as "Connecting" before coming to a halt and shows "Internet
Explorer not responding".
Anyone got any bright ideas on how to fix this?

 

[Gary M]

Install IE8.

 

[Gordon]

I am running Vista Home Premium with IE7.
Roughly 3 times out of 10 when I click on IE to bring it to the screen it
gets as far as "Connecting" before coming to a halt and shows "Internet
Explorer not responding".
Anyone got any bright ideas on how to fix this?

(Crossposted to internetexplorer.general)
Is this on one site or group of sites in particular or is it completely
random?

 

[rob^_^]

Hi,

How many homepages do you have and is any one of them in your trusted sites
zone?

Previous fixes have required removing *.google.com from your trusted sites
zone (placed there by the Google toolbar installer) or making sure that all
of your homepages domains are in the same security zone.

Regards.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Click start and type "Internet Explorer" (without the quotes). One of the
menu entries that appears will be to start IE without any addons. Select
this mode and see if it starts properly. If so, then what you need to do is
to go to Tools/Manage addons and disable those that load with IE (especially
toolbars, the most frequent cause of this problem) until you isolate which
one is causing the problem.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Dumb Bunny]

Install IE8.

My thanks to Gary, Gordon and Rob who provided suggestions re. my problem.
I will explore these in due course, but at the moment I will concentrate on
the reply from Rick which seemed to be the most likely cause of the trouble.
Much appreciated everyone.

 

[Francis]

IE alwalys that.
Why not change to Firefox or others ?