Stoopid ie crashing.

sno.lcn

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• Jul 11, 2006

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A guy at one of the offices I do computer work for is having a problem where his internet explorer crashes every time he tries to type in a text box, whether filling out a form, googling, etc. AFAK, it just started this morning. I just switched him over to firefox, but I would like to go ahead and get the problem fixed if possible. I did a virus scan and ran adaware so I don't believe either of those to be the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
OS is windows xp sp2, and it's ie 6.

 

TollhouseFrank

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any text box at all? Or just certain ones?

 

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sno.lcn

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TollhouseFrank said:

any text box at all? Or just certain ones?

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From what I can tell, all of them.

 

greenmaji

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• Jul 11, 2006

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scandisk?
sounds like the app might be corrupt.
If it were my PC Id try a dirty install of IE6.

There is a fairly complicated way of uninstalling IE6 to do a fresh (I found it a long time ago websurfing and don't remeber the details)

 

Enablingwolf

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Try a repair:


Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Tools | Repair Internet Explorer

 

greenmaji

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Ahh.. try that first ^^

 

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You may also want to run Hijackthis just to be sure it's not some sort of nasty Adaware missed.

 

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sno.lcn

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Enablingwolf said:

Try a repair:


Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Tools | Repair Internet Explorer

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That's why I love you guys. Problem fixed! Can't believe it was something stupid like that I neglected to try in the first place.

 

Enablingwolf

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Still do the in depth scans.

I think something tried to hijack the browser and it was poorly coded.