Opening a link

[Guest]

In the last one week or so...when i try to open a link in the same window or
in a new windows, IE freezes. Not always but quite frequently. I then go to
the task manager to end task. And then all the open windows of IE closes
down! ANybody have any idea why this is happening?

Note: I recently installed XP SP2. This seems to be happening only after
that. Is there any issue there?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

See if these commands help, from Start/Run:

regsvr32 oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 /i urlmon.dll

Restart Windows.

Additional recommendations:

Disable all Pop-up blockers if installed any. Here is a detailed note from
Don Varnau, MS-MVP Internet Explorer

<quote>
You probably have a program running which is blocking pop-up windows-
something like Yahoo Companion, Google toolbar, MSN toolbar, a firewall,
Earthlink (or another) pop-up blocker, MyIE2 (or another shell for IE) etc.

You'll have to turn off the feature that's blocking new windows or, perhaps,
uninstall the program.

BHO Demon from http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm may find the
offending program/BHO.

Or it could be caused by spyware/parasites. Work through the solutions
(CWShredder, Ad-aware, Spybot) at
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm Also note the security tips on that
page.

Additional information at:
The Parasite Fight http://www.aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
More security tips at http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
Bugs, Glitches & Stuffups: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm

</quote>

Ref:
http://groups.google.co.in/groups?selm=#[email protected]

You'd be interested in using my program ToolbarCop to disable the IE add-ons
(that includes browser extensions, toolbars, additional buttons to the
standard toolbar, Browser Helper Objects) selectively, to isolate the
problem. ToolbarCop can be downloaded from:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4126.html

 

[Guest]

Ok Ramesh, i will follow these steps.

Earlier i was using yahoo/google/msn toolbar and i had no problems. Now i am
using the default pop-up blocker that comes with SP2. It is not about
pop-ups. I am not talking about pop-ups getting blocked. Sometimes, when i
click on links from inside IE, OE and also Sharp reader, that particular
window freezes up. Even now, i got this notification about your reply. When
i clicked on the link from inside Outlook express, to come here, it froze.

 

[Guest]

Ok Ramesh, i will follow these steps.

Earlier i was using yahoo/google/msn toolbar and i had no problems. Now i am
using the default pop-up blocker that comes with SP2. It is not about
pop-ups. I am not talking about pop-ups getting blocked. Sometimes, when i
click on links from inside IE, OE and also Sharp reader, that particular
window freezes up. Even now, i got this notification about your reply. When
i clicked on the link from inside Outlook express, to come here, it froze.
I am having the same problem. I was told by a local technician tha it is a problem with IE. Have contacted microsoft, but have not received an answert. I will post if I find out anything.

 

[Guest]

I arn those 2 commands. What are those dll's and what do they do? I also
unchecked the 'reuse widnows for launching shortcuts.' Let's see what happens
now.