ie6 will not start

[Leroy Wiley]

When I try to start IE6, I get an hourglass for a second or two, then
nothing.

This problem started after I tried to play some wma files in MS Media
Player that I had copied from one of my other computers. Media Player
tried to acquire a license and went nuts and opened about 50
individual IE6 windows. I assume that has something to do with it but
maybe not.

I read posts from Mike Burgess and Don Varnau on this subject in March
and April.

Disabling third-party browser extensions does the trick (thanks for
the info guys!).

However, after running CWShredder (nothing found), Adaware (nothing
found) and Spybot (nothing found), and enabling third-party browser
extensions the problem returns.

All three of the spyware programs are up to date.

Is it possible that Media Player is the culprit here?

I can leave third-party browser extensions disabled and it works fine
but am I missing anything important? Is it primarily for internet
radio broadcasts?

I'm running XP Home SP1, IE 6 and Media Player 9. Any help would be
appreciated.


Leroy

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

When I try to start IE6, I get an hourglass for a second or two, then
nothing.

There may be some clues in the appcompat.txt file you would be
sending in each time you terminated the hang with Ctrl-Alt-Delete
and sent in the trouble report. You could use the <click here> link
on that message window to get a preview of that but usually the file
persists after it has been sent.

If you have multiple appcompat reports make sure that you look at
the latest one. BTW you may find them easier to read by renaming
them with an .xml extension and then opening them in IE.


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[Leroy Wiley]

There may be some clues in the appcompat.txt file you would be
sending in each time you terminated the hang with Ctrl-Alt-Delete
and sent in the trouble report.

Robert,
Thanks for taking a shot but no help there. The last entry in the
appcompat.txt file was from May.

Leroy

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Disabling third-party browser extensions does the trick

If the symptom is not a hang and disabling all BHO avoids whatever
the symptom is try using BHODemon to disable *some* BHO.
Doing that would give you a better circumvention as well as more
information about your symptom.


Robert

 

[Guest]

Have you tried to see if you can use IE from another user
on the comp. such as a guest account? If you can w/o
disabling the third-party browser ext. then you know
there's something else wrong.

 

[Guest]

Also, if you come up with a solution let me know how you
did it. It would be nice to know who the culprit was. GL

 

[Leroy Wiley]

I tried it with another user account and it works with third party
enabled. Good. Thanks.

That means something specific to my user account is causing the
problem. That is a help but I don't know where to go from here.

Any ideas anyone?


Leroy