Contact Forum Editor

Send an email to our Forum Editor:

PLEASE NOTE: Your name is used only to let the Forum Editor know who sent the message. Both your name and email address will not be used for any other purpose.

Windows Vista Help

It's free to register, to post a question or to start / join a discussion

View Forum Rules | Contact Forum Editor

 

Vista - IE8

marble

Likes # 0

Posted August 25, 2010 at 3:52PM

Been using this machine for 3 years - for the past 2/3 weeks IE8 keeps freezing several times a day.

I get a sort of white foggy screen and have to Ctrl Alt Del for the Task Manager to kill the application.

I have looked for Add Ons in the Tool Menu and disabled two that had recent dates, there is no difference.

I don't know what I should be doing to try to cure this. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Like this post
marble

Likes # 0

Posted August 29, 2010 at 10:06PM

After writing the above I had 2 or 3 freezes.

I did a 'Fix IE8' from the Microsoft site and a shut down for half an hour. It has been happy for the past couple of hours :-)

Like this post
marble

Likes # 0

Posted August 29, 2010 at 11:31AM

Thanks for that peter99co. Sorry didn't reply earlier .. had a tummy bug.

I did have a look where you said but was a bit stupid and couldn't get my brain to function. I will remember about the going foggy and not responding information.

I did, however, discover that when I looked in Add/Remove Progs for things dated about the time the problem started, that there was a little online game programme and a toolbar I vaguely remembered installing (stupid, I know). I uninstalled them and rebooted and my PC is as happy as it was before.

I had always previously had a policy of not installing things, must have had a brain fart.

I am happy now, thank you.

Like this post
peter99co

Likes # 0

Posted August 25, 2010 at 9:24PM

It will go foggy and show -Not responding if the processor is busy. Why is it busy? If you can use Task manager to show you more it may give you a clue. Let it run and see if it clears. Look into Indexing Processes (wait for guidance from others on this)

Like this post
peter99co

Likes # 0

Posted September 2, 2010 at 10:55AM

Well done and thanks for feedback. MSE is more gentle and hopefully just as efficient. It is set up for Vista use anyway.

Like this post
marble

Likes # 0

Posted September 1, 2010 at 11:07PM

I got to the bottom of it all.

McAfee had downloaded an update to their Security Suite 10.

Now that have I ditched the software and used the removal tool on it, installed Microsoft Security Essentials, all is sweet and PC runs smoothly, in fact smoother than it has been doing for the past 3 years when McAfee was on it.

I am over the moon :)

Like this post

Reply to this topic

This thread has been locked.



Check out PC Advisor's other tech forums

Send to a friend

Email this article to a friend or colleague:

PLEASE NOTE: Your name is used only to let the recipient know who sent the story. Both your name and the recipient's name and address will not be used for any other purpose.