[BNM] IE not working!! MS $h*te.....

[Alan Braddish]

Thanks Steve,

I tried this - it opened IE, told me all addons were disabled, and then IE
worked.

But, I closed IE and opened it again and the same problem.

I forgot to say that Firefox and other browsers work perfectly.

I have done a full virus scan with various bits of software, and I don't
have a firewall running on this machine.

I have checked my IE network settings and don't have any proxy setup, nor am
I automatically detecting settings.

It's a strange problem because sometimes IE will work perfectly, and other
times nothing.  The times it doesn't work, there is no TCP traffic coming
out of IE at all.  I checked with Ethereal.

I have Googled this and others have had the same problem, but I am yet to
find a solution.

I'm loathed to do a complete XP reinstall, as not only would that be a
complete pain, the problem may well recur.

I'm stumped!

Alan

PS. Bring on Windows 7, where IE will no longer be bundled with the OS!!!


-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of PC Help Brighton
Sent: 06 July 2009 22:27
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] IE not working!! MS $h*te.....

Try This
Go to Start > Run
Type:  iexplore -extoff
Press Enter


Steve
www.pchelpman.co.uk


From: Alan Braddish
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 9:53 PM
To: 'Brighton New Media'
Subject: [BNM] IE not working!! MS $h*te.....


Anyone ever had a problem with IE where when you open the browser, it
doesn't connect to the internet?  I sometimes have to attempt to open IE 5
or 6 times before it will finally 'register' that the internet connection is
there and load a page.

It originally started happening with IE7, and I hoped the upgrade to IE8
would have fixed the issue.

I did have IE7Pro installed, but it was working fine with that, then one day
it started giving me this strange behaviour.

I have disabled any and all plugins, but the problem persists.

It's rather annoying as I can't always view HTML emails in Outlook as that
relies on IE being able to access the internet.  Sometimes it will work
sometimes it won't.

Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling the whole of XP?

Many thanks.
Alan


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