No Internet Explorer 7 downloads and crashes unless ran asadministrator

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DC

Hi,

on my new Dell Vostro with Vista Ultimate (all recent patches) I am
not able to download any files. I get a message that the page could
not be opened after a while. Also, I don't have to surf far to get a
crash.

When I activate the "run as administrator" check-box of the IE7 link,
everything works perfect. I guess running IE as admin isn't the best
idea though.

Any suggestion how I could fix this? TIA,

DC
 
Rick Rogers said:
Hi,

Bad plugin/addon is the likely cause. Tools/Manage Addons/Enable or
Disable, start disabling those that load with IE.
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Glad you mentioned it.
When I was confronted with the choice to accept plug-ins or add-ons, I
wasn't sure which way to go at first, but then decided against it, following
an 'instinct', without knowing the reason. You have given it to me now,
thank you.

Harry.
 
Hi,

Bad plugin/addon is the likely cause. Tools/Manage Addons/Enable or Disable,
start disabling those that load with IE.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -www.rickrogers.org
My thoughtshttp://rick-mvp.blogspot.com










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Thanks Rick! I have already tried to disable the addins - at least the
"loaded" addins. I will retry reloading all addins. Is it true that I
can only disable one by one addin (e.g. there is no global "addins
off" switch)? Are "plugins" something different? I did not notice a
switch for plugins.

Regards
DC
 
Hi,

Addons = Plugins, both terms refer to the same thing. You should do one at a
time and restart IE between each in order to isolate the problem. To ensure
that this actually is the problem, simple type "Internet Explorer" into the
start/search lines and choose the entry to load it without addons and see if
the problem is cleared.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Hi,

Addons = Plugins, both terms refer to the same thing. You should do one at a
time and restart IE between each in order to isolate the problem. To ensure
that this actually is the problem, simple type "Internet Explorer" into the
start/search lines and choose the entry to load it without addons and see if
the problem is cleared.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -www.rickrogers.org
My thoughtshttp://rick-mvp.blogspot.com








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Hi Rick, not luck: I started IE without any plugins, still no
downloads and many crashes. Any other ideas?

Regards
DC
 
Maybe your antivirus software playing up?- Zitierten Text ausblenden -

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Thanks, Dave.

I did already uninstall the Norton trial version that came with this
new machine, viruschecker does not seem to be the problem.

In the meantime I found another way to avoid the problems without
running IE as administrator: when I set the security to custom level
(by removing the "acivate protected mode" option in the security tab)
then everything works fine. But I guess that's not such a good idea.

Is this a clue for the source of the problems (i. e. crashed, no
downloads and even some images are not being displayed in protected
mode)?

Regards
DC
 
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