This window is busy.

[Mark]

For the last two days my computer displays this message when IE appears to
freeze. What is it and what should I do about it? I have Vista Home Premium,
2 GIG RAM.

"Windows Internet Explorer
This window is busy. Closing this window may cause some problems. Do you
want to close it anyway.
OK/Cancel "

Mark

 

[Mark]

Hallo Microsoft:
Is this a "normal" Vista error message or something is terribly wrong with
my computer?
Mark

 

[John W]

What's the message?

 

[Dave]

What error message?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hallo Microsoft:
Is this a "normal" Vista error message or something is terribly wrong with
my computer?

Three points:

1. You didn't quote anything of what went before (assuming that you
are continuing an existing thread), so those many of us who don't save
already-read messages have no idea what message you are talking about.

2. You changed the subject line, which makes it look like you started
a new thread. Please don't do that, since it's very confusing.

3. This isn't Microsoft here. This is a peer support newsgroup. We are
all just Windows Vista users here, helping each other if and when we
can. We are not Microsoft employees (not even those of us with
"Microsoft MVP" behind our names; that's an honorary title for having
provided consistently helpful advice) except for an occasional
employee who posts here unofficially on his own time.

If you don't get an answer, it can be for a variety of reasons: you
may have asked your question poorly and nobody understood, nobody may
know the answer, the person who knows the answer may have missed your
question, and so on.

 

[Mark]

Thank you Ken for response. I hoped to get attention, and perhaps some help
from the Microsoft employees who monitor this group. I apologize that I
asked question poorly and nobody could understand it. I will try to ask my
question again.
My relatively new computer started to display the following error message:

Beginning of the error message:

"Windows Internet Explorer
This window is busy. Closing this window may cause some problems. Do you
want to close it anyway?
OK/Cancel "

End of the error message.

The message appears when IE stops working in the middle of web page loading.
I have Vista Home Premium and Office 2007. I am concerned about the error
message's second sentence.
Does anybody know what problems the Microsoft product promises to deliver?
Mark

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thank you Ken for response. I hoped to get attention, and perhaps some help
from the Microsoft employees who monitor this group.

Once again, Microsoft employees don't monitor this group, except
occasionally and unofficially. If you want to talk to Microsoft you'll
need to contact them directly.

I apologize that I
asked question poorly and nobody could understand it.

No, I didn't say that you asked poorly. As I said, I hadn't even seen
your question when you replied, since you didn't quote it. I only
suggested that as one *possible* reason why you hadn't gotten a reply.

 

[Charlie Tame]

Thank you Ken for response. I hoped to get attention, and perhaps some
help from the Microsoft employees who monitor this group. I apologize
that I asked question poorly and nobody could understand it. I will try
to ask my question again.
My relatively new computer started to display the following error message:

Beginning of the error message:

"Windows Internet Explorer
This window is busy. Closing this window may cause some problems. Do you
want to close it anyway?
OK/Cancel "

End of the error message.

The message appears when IE stops working in the middle of web page
loading. I have Vista Home Premium and Office 2007. I am concerned about
the error message's second sentence.
Does anybody know what problems the Microsoft product promises to deliver?
Mark

Yep, it helps if you can include relevant bits of the question and
relevant bit of any replies you have had so people can see what ideas
have already been put forward, otherwise people won't go digging around
to look for that info.

To try and answer the question somewhat I think what you are seeing a
just a "General Purpose" message that means "I'm busy trying to do one
of several possible things and if you stop me then that particular task
may fail with unpredictable results". Because it is not a specific
message it is not possible to give an accurate list of possible
consequences, and probably not likely that Explorer even knows how far
it got with the task.

For example if you were posting an email using Yahoo or some other web
based mail then your message may have reached the server, or it may not,
and if not you lose the message.

Does this happen a lot with all sites you visit, or just a few, or just
one or two in particular? If it happens with all then (But not all the
time) it may be your ISP, if just a few sites then it may be just those
sites.

Don't give identifiable details in newsgroups but if you can give a site
as an example others may have seen the same problem and be able to at
least say the site is your likely problem.

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

A lot of delays come from plug-ins loading poorly. You may want to go to
Internet Explorer's Tools:Manage Add-ons menu tool and disable third party
tools/toolbars temporarily.