Dreaded Blue Screen

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About once every 3 days I get a blue screen telling me "Page fault in
non-paged area". This has been going on for about 3 weeks and always when I
click something within IE8. Tonight it happened when I clicked inside the
address bar. Other times it happened when I clicked in other places but
always within IE8. I ran a comprehensive virus scan and it found no virus or
spyware. Any ideas what's causing this? Any suggestions how to cure this
problem? Thanks.

Running XP Home SP3, IE8.0.6001.18702
 
KIR said:
About once every 3 days I get a blue screen telling me "Page fault in
non-paged area". This has been going on for about 3 weeks and always when I
click something within IE8. Tonight it happened when I clicked inside the
address bar. Other times it happened when I clicked in other places but
always within IE8. I ran a comprehensive virus scan and it found no virus or
spyware. Any ideas what's causing this? Any suggestions how to cure this
problem? Thanks.

Running XP Home SP3, IE8.0.6001.18702
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Run IE8 in its no add-ons mode. That eliminates loading/accessing any
add-ons you installed into IE8. Then retest.
 
Run IE8 in its no add-ons mode. That eliminates loading/accessing any
add-ons you installed into IE8. Then retest.
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And if that does not help, test your memory with memtest86+ overnight;
if memory looks OK, then delete and reinstall IE8.
 
How do I run IE8 in no add-on mode? Also I forgot to mention in my post that
about the same time the blue screen started to appear I installed System
Mechanic Pro. I've contacted their tech support and reported the problem.
Awaiting response.
 
KIR said:
How do I run IE8 in no add-on mode? Also I forgot to mention in my post that about
the same time the blue screen started to appear I installed System Mechanic Pro.
I've contacted their tech support and reported the problem. Awaiting response
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IE\Properties\Programs\Manage Add Ons

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Peter said:
KIR wrote ...


IE\Properties\Programs\Manage Add Ons
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That's when you want to manage (enable/disable) them individually. You
aren't running in no add-ons mode actually. It's possible an add-on
isn't shown in that listing.

I doubt KIR has never heard of Google or use another online search
engine. It was a knee-jerk response versus expending some effort to
resolve how to use no add-ons mode. A Google search would've answered
his own question and he wouldn't have had to wait for a response here.

http://www.google.com/search?q=+"internet+explorer"+%2B"no+add-on"+mode

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=site:support.microsoft.com++"internet+explorer"+%2B"no+add-ons"+mode
(granted that not many Google users know about the "site:" operator)

Just right-click on IE's desktop icon, or use the -extoff command-line
parameter when running iexplore.exe. For the command line switches,
there are lots of articles describing them:

http://www.google.com/search?q=+"internet+explorer"+"command-line"+options+switches
 
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VanguardLH wrote ...


How do I run IE8 in no add-on mode?
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Right-click on the IE desktop icon. You could also load IE and hit F1
to search its own help for "no add-ons".
Also I forgot to mention in my
post that about the same time the blue screen started to appear I
installed System Mechanic Pro. I've contacted their tech support and
reported the problem. Awaiting response.
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Well, since System Mechanic Pro is a utility and definitely not a
critical program, what happens after you uninstall it? Personally I
would stay away from all that Iolo garbage.
 
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