Re: frozen laptop...IE add on mess up

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Internet explorer fails to open--

Just happened to me too -- "right click to open IE, and run "without add ons" opens very quickly now.

Did it a few times and now works ok.

It's an IE update mess-up

Matt in Western PA

(And we "know" computers will make "everything better...")

frozen laptop...To: "practiceimprovement1" < >Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 2:03 AM

Any suggestions appreciated: my Dell laptop (Window XP pro) has been taking a long time to startup and then often runs very slowly (Task Manager/performance shows 95-100% of CPU being used, but not by any program I am running: something running in the background I assume, though I dont SEE anything running under applications ).

BUT now, started today, I cant Internet Explorer to open at all: it tries but fails. I have scannned it with AVG and with Malbytes (pgm to find and remove malware) and neither have found any bad actors..

Any suggestions on repairing this illness? Virus? Corrupted OS? I hate to think about reformatting HD and reloading all software (I dont have a disc with Win XP on it , probably other pgms I dont have discs for as well. ) Is it worth taking it to computer shop for help or am I better to get another computer?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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Thanks Matt and all who have made suggestions.  I am defragmenting as I write (on another computer, of course) and will try the disk clean up and the IE " without add ons " when defrag completes (it takes forever: after 1 hour, still onllyy 15%  done).  I cant get System Restore to run. ???

 

Internet explorer fails to open--

 

Just happened to me too -- " right click to open IE, and run " without add ons " opens very quickly now.

Did it a few times and now works ok.

 

It's an IE update mess-up

 

Matt in Western PA

(And we " know " computers will make " everything better... " )

 

frozen laptop...To: " practiceimprovement1 " < >

Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 2:03 AM

 

Any suggestions appreciated:  my Dell laptop (Window XP pro) has been taking a long time to startup and then often runs very slowly (Task Manager/performance shows 95-100%  of CPU being used, but not by any program I am running:  something running in the background I assume, though I dont SEE anything running under applications ). 

     BUT  now, started today,  I cant Internet Explorer to open at all:  it tries but fails. I have scannned it with AVG  and with  Malbytes (pgm to find and remove malware) and neither have found any bad actors..

    Any suggestions on repairing this illness?  Virus?  Corrupted OS?   I   hate to think about reformatting HD  and reloading all software (I dont have a disc with Win XP on it , probably other pgms I dont have discs for as well. )  Is it worth taking it to computer shop for help or am I better to get another computer? 

    Thanks in advance for any suggestions.   

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 You probably know this  but-You  hit F8 as soon as you turn machine on-- then it  offers you to run in safe mode then it  offers you system restore?   t, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:28 PM, wrote:

 

Thanks Matt and all who have made suggestions.  I am defragmenting as I write (on another computer, of course) and will try the disk clean up and the IE " without add ons " when defrag completes (it takes forever: after 1 hour, still onllyy 15%  done).  I cant get System Restore to run. ???

 

Internet explorer fails to open--

 

Just happened to me too -- " right click to open IE, and run " without add ons " opens very quickly now.

Did it a few times and now works ok.

 

It's an IE update mess-up

 

Matt in Western PA

(And we " know " computers will make " everything better... " )

 

frozen laptop...To: " practiceimprovement1 " < >

Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 2:03 AM

 

Any suggestions appreciated:  my Dell laptop (Window XP pro) has been taking a long time to startup and then often runs very slowly (Task Manager/performance shows 95-100%  of CPU being used, but not by any program I am running:  something running in the background I assume, though I dont SEE anything running under applications ). 

     BUT  now, started today,  I cant Internet Explorer to open at all:  it tries but fails. I have scannned it with AVG  and with  Malbytes (pgm to find and remove malware) and neither have found any bad actors..

    Any suggestions on repairing this illness?  Virus?  Corrupted OS?   I   hate to think about reformatting HD  and reloading all software (I dont have a disc with Win XP on it , probably other pgms I dont have discs for as well. )  Is it worth taking it to computer shop for help or am I better to get another computer? 

    Thanks in advance for any suggestions.   

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In my experience when so many things are unstable it indicates a bad hard drive.

Although painful and time consuming I would stop the medical workup and take a

more surgical approach with a new hard drive or computer. Computers work much

better after a fresh start.

Dan Zacharias, MD

New Jersey

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> >> Any suggestions appreciated: my Dell laptop (Window XP pro) has been

> >> taking a long time to startup and then often runs very slowly (Task

> >> Manager/performance shows 95-100% of CPU being used, but not by any

program

> >> I am running: something running in the background I assume, though I dont

> >> SEE anything running under applications ).

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> >> BUT now, started today, I cant Internet Explorer to open at all:

> >> it tries but fails. I have scannned it with AVG and with Malbytes (pgm to

> >> find and remove malware) and neither have found any bad actors..

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> >> Any suggestions on repairing this illness? Virus? Corrupted

> >> OS? I hate to think about reformatting HD and reloading all software

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> >> dont have a disc with Win XP on it , probably other pgms I dont have discs

> >> for as well. ) Is it worth taking it to computer shop for help or am I

> >> better to get another computer?

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> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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