IE freezes my computer

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Hello;
Ikeep having problems with IE.
Consistently when I open a couple or few windows quite often my computer freezes. This happens very often and right before it happens my mem usage seems to spike.
Then, for a short period of time if I openned the task manager I would find two versions running even though I had only opened one window. this recently stopped but now I have been finding the Windowsupdate4 running two operations.

can anyone help - I am getting sick of my computer crashing all the time.
thanks
 
Mesar said:
Hello;
Ikeep having problems with IE.
Consistently when I open a couple or few windows quite often my
computer freezes. This happens very often and right before it happens
my mem usage seems to spike.
Then, for a short period of time if I openned the task manager I
would find two versions running even though I had only opened one
window. this recently stopped but now I have been finding the
Windowsupdate4 running two operations.

can anyone help - I am getting sick of my computer crashing all the
time.
thanks
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First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated with the program's update function
before every use, even when just downloaded. There's also a lot more to do
than just those two programs. CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.

If nothing there helps, please post back to this thread.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
 
Hey Frank, thanks for the reply. I ran AdAware and HijackThis and did find some issues that have now been corrected. The number of times my computer freezes is definitely down but I am still having a problem with freezing on occasion, usually when I have a few things running like plam software with outlook and word. It does seem to happen after I have shut down IE.

can you think of anything else?

thanks
Sarah
 
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