address bar suddenly not responding

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Have been having problems with explorer address bar not responding wnd what
the error report describes as a 'hang'. This is also happening when I try to
save any MS word, powerpoint, excel files. Have performed spyware adware and
virus scans with latest updates but nothing showing up, and certainly problem
not correcting itself. Can anyone help. Would appreciate any advice.
 
Yeah Brian, I'm having the same problem. Whenever I try to work with
pictures, nothing happens, and the address bar is pooped. As far as the
address bar goes, I've heard that you can delete a certain update and it will
fix the problem. I can't remember the number though.... scroll down through
yesterday's posts and you'll see an address bar labeled one that should have
the answer.
 
Brian, I had the same problem after some Automatic Updates ran. After using
the trial and error by uninstalling the latest updates I found the problem.
It is the update KB908531. If you uninstall that one it should solve the
problem.
 
Does everyone here have an HP Printer/Scanner on their system. It seems the
link provided by J. Kennedy (thank you) points to a problem with the HP
Software. I'm wondering whether it's worth to do the workaround provided for
the HP software or just uninstall the update. Any recommendations?
 
Check my input above with address bar problem. Jon Kennedy gave correct URL
link to go to this explanation. I went through the registry edit program,
entered the new word string, and figured out how to set this newly entered
word string value to 1. I printed out the pages that the URL gave, because
you have to be careful, and the new DWORD string was long. I took this route
without a problem after reading a post on this issue yesterday. The only
issue I had was setting the new DWORD Value to 1. But I figured it out. As
I described in a post above on 4/19, you have to double click down to caches,
then right click to new, then click DWORD Value, enter the data string
{A4DF5659-0801-4A60-9607-1C48695EFDA9}
{000214E6-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} 0x401 (There is one space between
each string). When this is entered into the new DWord Value box, then point
the mouse away to blank screen area and click. This enters the new string.
Then you have to set this value to 1. You right click on the new DWORD Value
entered, select edit binary, box drops with 0000 00 00 00 00 ........,
click for cursor between first and second 00 00, backspace out first 00, then
enter 01, then click ok, then close registry and restart the computer. This
corrected the problem as described in the URL referring to security update
MS06-015 (908531). Take it slow and be careful if you wish to edit the
registry to correct this problem. It is fairly easy to do. There is no
downlad involved. Make certain that you enter the string correctly. When
the data value is set to 1, the number string associated listed below data
number column will end with (1). When you enter the new DWORD Value string,
you will see that this is all zeros inlcuding (0) at the end. After setting
to 1, it will be (1) at the end.

As I stated previously, I wish there was someway to notify all about this
issue. I have HP share to web printer and scanner, many others do as well.
In my opinion, this is an example of a Microsoft security software screwup.
The reason I say this is that so many folks use HP products. It forces the
computer user to either go into the registry to fix the problem, or take some
other action. Whatever you decide, don't contact Microsoft. They'll niclke
and dime you to death when it is not neccessary. Especially, if the
Microsoft person is unaware of this issue.
 
How do you uninstall the update?

Connie said:
Brian, I had the same problem after some Automatic Updates ran. After using
the trial and error by uninstalling the latest updates I found the problem.
It is the update KB908531. If you uninstall that one it should solve the
problem.
Click to expand...
 
Best not to uninstall the security update, but to apply the "fix" for it:

Problems in Windows Explorer or the Windows shell after you install security
update MS06-015
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/918165

More info:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2006/04/17/91304.aspx
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/185303742
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/04/18/425473.aspx

But, if you *really* want to unistall it, go to Start...Settings...Control
Panel, Add/Remove, make sure the "Show updates" box is checked at the top,
scroll down to "Security Update for Windows XP (KB908531), click on it to
highlight it, then click the Remove button.
 
You're welcome. I have all the usual software installed for my HP
Photosmart 7760, but it apparently doesn't include "Share-to-Web" program
that's been one of the problems with the update.

Personally, I wouldn't uninstall the security update, but apply the "fix"
patch mentioned elsewhere in many threads on this group, or uninstall the
application via Add/Remove in Control panel.
 
Jon,

I backed up my hard drive and then did the reg edit from the link you
provided. Thankfully it worked. As soon as I rebooted, the problems went
away without having to uninstall the security patch. Thank you once again.
 
I have recently installed IE 7 (rebooted) over my SP3 install (and rebooted)
as suggested elswhere. Now I too have the problem with the address bar not
doing anything when I type in it. In order to get to a web site I have to
enter the website into the search bar just below the address bar and that
seems to work. I used to have the HP software described, but I unintalled
that long ago. To verify I check to see if the HP software programs were
still there some where and I didn't find them. I also have the latest Nvidia
drivers so that shouldn't be a problem...

I tried the suggestions to fix the registry and when I opened that part of
the registry file I noticed that the edits were already there! So I didn't
have to do anything. I shut everything down and restarted my computer. But
still it did not fix the problem.

So... Any suggestions other than going back to IE6... Frankly IE6 seems to
hang a lot more on some sites...

Thanks
 
You're replying to a thread from almost 3 years ago and where the OP (Brian)
was not running IE7.

For best assistance & to avoid confusion, please begin a new thread about
your issues in IE General newsgroup:
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

On the web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

In your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

Thanks.

PS: Installing IE7 in hopes of fixing an already-existing problem in IE6 is
seldom a good idea.
 
Alright.... I'll do that. I noticed there are 3 other threads related to this
issues. I guess I just posted to the top most... But now looking further I
noticed that one of the other two threads actually has posts from this year.

Sorry for the confusion...
 
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