IE 6 failure to launch

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I have almost daily occurrances of IE6 failing to launch ....[I click on the
icon and get an hour glass which lasts a few seconds and then goes away]....
and then I find that my computer is unresponsive, making it necessary for me
to do a "push button" shut down. I am running windows xp sp2. A sidebar: I
went looking for the IE6 program in my "add/remove programs" utility, and it
is not there in any form. I thought that was really strange. Any help will
be appreciated.
 
jewelmaker said:
I have almost daily occurrances of IE6 failing to launch ....[I click on the
icon and get an hour glass which lasts a few seconds and then goes away]....
and then I find that my computer is unresponsive, making it necessary for me
to do a "push button" shut down. I am running windows xp sp2. A sidebar: I
went looking for the IE6 program in my "add/remove programs" utility, and it
is not there in any form. I thought that was really strange. Any help will
be appreciated.
Click to expand...

1... First, try to clean up your caches, Internet files and delete cookies
by doing this:
Click Start >> Control Panel >> Double click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options.
On the IE properties windows you will see these Taps:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs |
Advanced
Under General Tab clear your History, Internet Files and Cookies.
Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
Then click on Programs Tab and click Manage Add-Ons and Disable all non
Verified Add-Ons (You should Renable them later one-by-one and see the
culprit and update it or remove it.

2... And also for malwares from here:
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php
http://www.safer-networking.org ; for Spybot S&D

Run disk Clean Up and Defrag in safe mode, then Open run command and type in:
sfc /scannow click [OK]
Note the space between sfc_/
HTH.
Let us know.
Regards,
nass
 
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