I've been running win2k for a couple years on this install and this PC with no issues whatsoever until recently... whenever I open IE6 now, the browser window pops up but the contents of the window remain blank, the page load progress bar at the bottom freezes after just a split second, and so does the animated windows logo at the top right... it does nothing further until I right-click on the bottom tab for the browser window in the taskbar... as soon as I right-click the tab in the taskbar for it, then the animated icon starts moving again and the page will continue to load, allthough rather slowly... and after its fully loaded then I can surf within that one window normally, but it loads everything MUCH slower than it used to.. I'm on verizon high-speed DSL and its loading like I'm on dialup whereas it used to be very fast. The machine is a pentium 4 2.66GHz running on an ECS MB with 1GB RAM and an 80GB Seagate Barracuda HD which I built myself and like I said have had ZERO problems with for a couple years now... until just recently. I also noticed that no matter what application I use now, if it requires an internet connection then it acts like the connection is very slow... I've had updated virus protection the entire time I've used my comp, and I run routine spyware/adware scans. I've also tried norton windoctor and eusing registry checker/repair utilities to no success.. I'm getting to the point where I'm tempted to just wipe the whole disk and reformat/reload... but I REALLY don't want to if I can at all have a hope of repairing things first.. Please please please someone out there help me! Thank you in advance!

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Re-set your modem and then try installing a different browser to narrow down the 
problem.

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I reset my modem and installed Mozilla FireFox. Firefox works great, fast, and no problems at all that I can tell so far. IE6, however, is still broken. Also, now that firefox is installed and I set it as my default browser, then when I try to open IE, the little window pops up saying "Internet Explorer is not your default browser. Would you like to make it your default browser?" And I try to click NO but I can't click on anything... it just displays the hourglass cursor and freezes up until I do a ctrl+alt+del and close it from the task manager. So now I can't even open IE at all. I would still like to fix IE, but once its working I'm thinking I'll mostly be using firefox as it seems to be much faster and less problematic. Thank you for the suggestion by the way. :)

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Don't make FireFox your default browser,,,IE hooks up to many items in windows,,,OutLook 
for just one of them...

Use the Tools/Option/Gen'l. item to undo the default browser item..windows is setup 
to see IE running as the browser let it do it's thing....then you will be a happy 
window user.
It's said MS has had hard time to get it right but it's still trying..with tons of 
updates.. :>(


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On Friday, May 23, 2008 at 2:32 pm, Kami wrote:

>I reset my modem and installed Mozilla FireFox. Firefox works great, fast, and no 

>problems at all that I can tell so far. IE6, however, is still broken. Also, now 

>that firefox is installed and I set it as my default browser, then when I try to 

>open IE, the little window pops up saying "Internet Explorer is not your default 

>browser. Would you like to make it your default browser?" And I try to click NO 
but 

>I can't click on anything... it just displays the hourglass cursor and freezes up 

>until I do a ctrl+alt+del and close it from the task manager. So now I can't even 

>open IE at all. I would still like to fix IE, but once its working I'm thinking 
I'll 

>mostly be using firefox as it seems to be much faster and less problematic. Thank 

>you for the suggestion  by the way. :) 

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Boot to safe mode, open ie and then ie help. Go to the index and type "repair" for 
instructions. This is basically a re-install so if you do not have the install *.exe 
(ie 6), go ahead and download it before you start.

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You may also want to copy AND export (2 backups) your favorites first.

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