My wife can't use the internet, help!

[El Marko]

Over the past several months our IE6 performance has degraded from
tolerablew to crappy.

First, we lost the ability to search from within the location bar. If we
type in a subject, we get a "Page Cannot Be Found" error. So we search from
the search button.

Now, when we are at certain pages, many linked pages will do the same thing
from within a site.

Adaware, Spybot, and Symantec are all up to date and all three say we're
clean as a whistle!

Should I reinstall IE6? CAN that be done? Would it help?

mm

 

[sgopus]

Sure it can be done.
Check this link and read up on it.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/repair_reinstall_ie_and_oe_6.ht
m

However it sounds to me like your having timeout issues.
What kind of connection to the internet do you have?
Dial up, cable, DSL ???

This makes a big difference in methods to deal with it.

I used to have issues with a dial up connection and
timeouts, I called my telephone co and had them check the
line, turns out I had a lousy connection, with lots of
static, they needed to replace some phone cables, and I
needed to tweak some settings. but it was resolved.

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Go ahead, it's your PC. Personally, I'd rather find the cause of the
problem, correct it and prevent it from happening again, but then I like
using my brain and actually learn something once in a while.

Steve

 

[Steve Nielsen]

My wife can't either sometimes but no fault of the computer

Have you cleaned up temporary internet files and cookies? I would try
re-installing IE6sp1, it certainly wouldn't harm anything. I've had to
do that before to fix IE when it gets munged up too bad.

Steve