Internet Options does not start!

[ddraigmor]

HELP! I am having problems with Internet Options. Whenever I click it to use,
it comes on and then goes off again.......so what is up? I cannot access it
via Control Panel either.....

 

[Leonard Grey]

Could your computer be infected?

"Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315

 

[Daave]

HELP! I am having problems with Internet Options. Whenever I click it
to use, it comes on and then goes off again.......so what is up? I
cannot access it via Control Panel either.....

Try accessing Internet Options in Safe Mode.

But Leonard is probably correct; you probably have malware. Why do you
want to open Internet Options? Have you experienced other problems?

 

[Philip]

Did you try uninstall IE application and install again.

 

[Daave]

Did you try uninstall IE application and install again.

No, I didn't. Did you?

 

[DucDeConde]

I experienced the same problem earlier today.

I was removing programs using the add/remove option in Control Panel. I
deleted a lot of automatic update files (there were too many of them... very
sloppy Microsoft).

I also deleted MSN stuff. I thought that was why I couldn't connect to the
internet or access Internet option in control panel.

I tried to re-install the MSN stuff. The system demanded my original Windows
XP. The installation froze.

Anyway I rebooted after and it still didn't work. But after a second re-boot
everything was fine.

Don't click on your icons too fast, give your system time to load everything
first.

I hope this help.

 

[DucDeConde]

*** UPDATE ***

Turn out I had viruses on my computer.

My toolbar could not load completely, so I was unable to access my "Start"
menus.
Fortunately, I had a Windows Explorer shortcut on my desktop. I went into
"Control Panel" and re-installed some windows components. That gave me
internet access and I downloaded a free Anti-Virus program (Avast 4).

The software found 33 files containing viruses on my computer.

The most frustrating is that my WinPatrol program was infected by a Trojan,
so it I guess it wasn't helping much. I also re-installed a newer version of
WinPatrol. It's a great little program.

NOTE: Scanning my hard drive for viruses took nearly 3 hours. Yeah that's
slow. I should've tried custom install and perhaps tried to configure the
software not to scan certain file types. Most viruses were in the
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 directory.