Hi Gary,

Do you have the Developer Toolbar or the IE DOM Explorer installed? (these
are Addons for developers)

What happens when you disable Toolbars and Browser Helpers (Start>Control
Panel>Internet Options - Advanced tab, uncheck "Enable third-party browser
extensions") and restart the browser?

If that solves the problem, then check for updates for the Toolbars and
Browser Helpers that you have installed from their vendors.

You can test and update your Flash components from
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome


Regards.

"Gary Wardell" <nospam@sample.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> A couple of days ago I went to the Windows Update site and installed all
> of
> the critical updates, several windows update and several IE updates.
>
> After doing that IE6 started hanging on various sites, including
> Microsoft's
> site. It will hang while showing that it's downloading something in the
> status pane.
>
> Clicking the stop tool bar button has no effect. Trying to move or close
> the window has no effect.
>
> The task manager says Internet Explorer is not responding.
>
> The task manager will end the task, after putting up a dialog saying that
> it's not responding and asking if I want to terminate it now.
>
> I have tried reinstalling IE6 from a CD. No change. I have tried
> uninstalling the critical updates that I had installed. Not all of them
> are
> listed in the add/remove programs. The ones that were had no effect.
>
> I am thinking that the only option left is to fdisk and reinstall
> everything; which will be a long involved process and probably a total
> mess.
>
> Why can't IE be a separate program that can be uninstalled and
> reinstalled
> like other applications, like say MS Word.
>
> Anyone have any less traumatic ideas?
>
> My configuration:
> IE 6.0.2800.1106 SP 1
> Windows 2000; 5.00.2195; SP 4
> Did have all of the latest updates, see above.
>
> Gary
>
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