Internet Explorer does not start

[steve]

Can anyone help.
My Internet Explorer does not start when you click on it.
The clock icon comes on for a second indicating that it
is loading then it stops and I get the message to send a
problem report to Microsoft.
I looked through MS site and found something which
refered to this did the change in the registry as
sugested and got to the point of seeing the clock for the
1 second which I was not getting before.
I am using a different browser for a while now and just
got around to trying to fix this today.
Do not realy know when this problem occured and what was
the cause.
Any Help?

 

[Don Varnau]

Steve,
This is probably a parasite problem.
From Control Panel> Internet Options> Advanced uncheck "Enable third party
browser extensions." That should allow IE to open.

Run CWShredder from
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html It's been
the most helpful with this problem. CWShredder is only about 125 KB so it
could be downloaded from another machine onto a floppy disk.

You should follow CWShredder with Ad-aware and/or Spybot S&D. Both programs
should be updated after installation- before each use.
See: Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
Also note security tips at that site.

You should re-enable browser extensions after the cleanup.

Don