What a shame, Vista gets the blame

[Mark R. Cusumano]

For months I have been living with the problem of IE7 suddenly hanging and
taking 50 to 100% CPU time with the only solution to kill the process. I
upgraded all the activeX controls and even disabled them (seems disabled
activeX controls still seem to run if not uninstalled). Anyway I was
tooling around the Adobe website and was checking on the health of my flash
player plug-in (which I always secretly suspected was the culprit) and
noticed I was running an old version which was strange since I just
installed the latest upgrade 2 weeks ago. Ok, no biggie, I'll download it
again. Hmmm, STILL the old version. No error during the install so you
have NO CLUE the install didn't work. Completely uninstalled Flash Player
using THEIR uninstaller, which seems to be the ONLY way to uninstall it, the
reinstalled and Hey! The latest version is now installed and what a
surprise. I can't get IE7 to crash or hang at all.

 

[PNutts]

Thanks for posting your experience. The last Flash update solved a lot of
folk's issues with IE7.

 

[Mark R. Cusumano]

Thanks for posting your experience. The last Flash update solved a lot of
folk's issues with IE7.

Yeah it was getting to the point that loading Task Manager before IE7 was
becoming a habit