IE Freezing constantly?

Question

I have a fairly new HP Entertainment laptop. Whenever I am on IE it freezes after 15 mins or so. I have to go into the task manager and close out the IE process and start all over. This has grown to be extremely annoying. I have run spybot and bazzooka and nothing helps. I have symantec and no virus have occured.

Please help!!!

Answer 1

Use FireFox as your default browser. IE is a spyware magnet.

Answer 2

There are a few simple steps to this, regardless of which browser you use, but they take a bit of time to do.

1) Make sure your computer is up to date on ALL of the Microsoft updates. This includes all of the critical/security updates, the software updates, and the drivers. If you use Firefox, make sure you have the latest version.

2) When you scan for viruses, if at all possible you should scan while in Safe Mode. To get to Safe Mode, restart the laptop and when it goes to a blank screen immediately start pressing the F8 key very rapidly until you get a menu. From that menu, choose Safe Mode. When Safe Mode starts, you will be advised that you are running in Safe Mode (useless nagging) and asked if you want to do so. Choose Yes, then run your virus and spyware scans.

3) Check to see how many programs you are running at once. More programs running means your computer has more work to do. Look by the clock at the bottom right. The more things you see there, the more work your computer has to do. Close out everything that you can, and if possible prevent it from starting up automatically.

Answer 3

I have run into this with IE7 on XP SP2. After communicating with MS, personally I believe there is a bug in IE 7. Since it was writtend for VISTA, there has to be a hook somewhere that's causing this. I would suspect there will be a patch out over the next few weeks. In the mean time Firefox would be a good interim.

Answer 4

First thing you need to do it get rid of Symantec. It is extremely bloated, unreliable and takes up way too many system resources. Get rid of it and get a free virus scanner like AVG that takes up very little memory. Also, go get the 60-day trial version of a program called PrevX1 and scan for spyware. It is a fully functional trial and it will find any spyware you have on your system.

Answer 5

There are lot of motives for why a abode windows laptop freezes. on account which you assert not something approximately type of device, computing device or laptop and not something approximately working gadget win2000, XP or different, that is not straightforward to diagnose the project. yet - a 5 years previous laptop that has under no circumstances had the working gadget re-put in will definetly prefer an entire re-set up of the working gadget. For this you will be able to desire to take a back-up of all documents which you fairly prefer to maintain for the recent gadget, inclusive of favourites. you will additionally prefer the unique gadget CD that replaced into offered with the laptop, or a real version of XP. in case you do not comprehend the thank you to try this, look for suggestion from one tht has the certainty. additionally freezing must be led to via overheating, clean the laptop for dirt interior the container or interior the computing device, yet that's probable not the project on your case. solid luck!

Answer 6

well catilin all you have to do is use a standard heater fan and put it on the left or right hand side of you pc tower and set it
on low or medium heat.. but keep a fair distance of about
6-7 iches so that the heat won't destroy or warp the pc sdie
panel cover... and once a month i reocomend that you clean out yor pc only because dust will make your pc run slower and
if you don't keep the dust off your processor fan will not breath easy thus your computer will process slower than before.

Answer 7

you have more then likely installed a program that is incompatible with vista os. possibly the bazzooka one. it will cause problems like that when intalls are incompatible. in time vista will have more compatible software, make sure that any software that you install has vista capabilities. if not, you will have issues like this..
now to fix your internet explorer problem. if you can pull up the internet explorer tool bar click on tools.. if not, go to the control panel and click on classic view and then internet options. ( at the tools menu click on internet options at the bottom) then go to and delete all cookies and temp. internet files. then go to advance and click on it and scrolll all the way to the bottom of the page, and you will find internet explorer RESET button.. click on it and it will reset internet explorer..
then make sure that your security for virus protection is vista compatible, and up to date. scan.. and also make sure the any spyware that you intall is vista compatible. the vista operating system comes with windows defender in the all programs menu, it will scan your system for spyware.
good luck, hope you get your internet explorer to work again.
( note: if you can not get to any of the options listed above because it keeps freezing on you. go to your task manager and try new task and type in the menu item you need to open. or type it in the search space in start up menu)

Answer 8

Don't bother going to mozilla or firefox, people are creating spyware programs for them and they have no real way of blocking them to this point. Download IE7. It works fine and it a lot more secure than IE6.

Answer 9

Click start >click run >type in msconfig click on the startup tab then uncheck everything there except your anti virus and internet connection . Click ok and your computer will restart .

Try another browser like firefox http://securitynewsfromthenet.blogspot.com/
or opera http://www.opera.com/download/

Answer 10

The one and only perfect solution:

Get Mozilla Firefox.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Its a lot easier, cleaner, neater, as well as freezes less, has a better pop-up blocker, can be configured more not to mention uses a lot less memory on your computer.