Why does IE keep crashing? [Question for OMNIgeeks...]
Sep 18, 2008 | 7:31 am
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Why does IE keep crashing? [Question for OMNIgeeks...]
I have two laptops, one running XP Professional and one running Vista Home. On both machines, CNN.com frequently causes IE to shut down and restart. Usually not the CNN home page, but when I navigate to a story it will shut it down. I assume it is a setting in IE, but don't know what it would be. Any ideas?
Sep 18, 2008 | 10:24 am
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You may want to have the OMNIMods move this to Travel Tech.
Sep 18, 2008 | 10:33 am
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I think your computer is starting to become sapient, and realizes that CNN.com is a bunch of crap, so get your news somewhere else 
Actually, I have the same problem with IE, but use FireFox or Chrome, and the problems goes away
Actually, I have the same problem with IE, but use FireFox or Chrome, and the problems goes away
Sep 18, 2008 | 12:06 pm
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After conferring with the OP, we're moving this to Travel Technology.
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Sep 18, 2008 | 1:00 pm
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Sep 18, 2008 | 2:09 pm
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Try running IE without the addins: Start | Run | iexplore.exe -extoff
If that works then it is one of the addins that it breaking it. You can then start re-enabling a few at a time until you figure out which one breaks it.
Also, I'm going to update the thread title to be more useful now that the thread is over in Travel Technology.
If that works then it is one of the addins that it breaking it. You can then start re-enabling a few at a time until you figure out which one breaks it.
Also, I'm going to update the thread title to be more useful now that the thread is over in Travel Technology.
Sep 28, 2008 | 7:48 pm
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make sure all your Adobe stuff is updated to the latest version (Flash, Reader, etc.). This is typcially a bad plug-in for IE that causes this, and Adobe is the main culprit in my experience. Adobe Reader also can cause general Explorer hangs in Vista (not just IE). Newer versions are better (but you still might get hangs, just not as many). It could be something else, but I would suggest starting here.