Chess Titans + Internet Explorer = Freeze, always

A few days ago I was playing Chess Titans, and then I opened up
Internet Explorer. Within a few seconds, Vista froze. Couldn't move
the mouse, CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't work. A hard reset was required.

Now today I was playing Chess Titans, and I tried opening up Internet
Explorer. Again, the system froze within a few seconds.

Forget IE, next time I hope I remember to open up Firefox instead.

Hi,

Try running IE without addons enabled. Just type "internet" into the
start/search line and you will see that it is one of the options.

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Best of Luck,

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

<> wrote in message
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>A few days ago I was playing Chess Titans, and then I opened up
> Internet Explorer. Within a few seconds, Vista froze. Couldn't move
> the mouse, CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't work. A hard reset was required.
>
> Now today I was playing Chess Titans, and I tried opening up Internet
> Explorer. Again, the system froze within a few seconds.
>
> Forget IE, next time I hope I remember to open up Firefox instead.
>

It took me a long time, but I finally switched from IE to FF and I like it
much better. FF has tons of add-ons and they work. It even has an add-on
called IE tab for sites that require IE, which are very few, and displays
them flawlessly. FF is now my default browser, and IE is only there for
backup.

Mark

<> wrote in message
news:0774458a-c126-4e7c-9879-...
>A few days ago I was playing Chess Titans, and then I opened up
> Internet Explorer. Within a few seconds, Vista froze. Couldn't move
> the mouse, CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't work. A hard reset was required.
>
> Now today I was playing Chess Titans, and I tried opening up Internet
> Explorer. Again, the system froze within a few seconds.
>
> Forget IE, next time I hope I remember to open up Firefox instead.
>

On May 15, 5:18*am, "Mark" <secureourbord...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> It took me a long time, but I finally switched from IE to FF and I like it
> much better. FF has tons of add-ons and they work. It even has an add-on
> called IE tab for sites that require IE, which are very few, and displays
> them flawlessly. FF is now my default browser, and IE is only there for
> backup.

On my other Win2K computer, I use FF by default. But for the Vista
computer, I wanted to give IE7 a chance, as it supposedly has a lot
better security. Do you think FF is still better security-wise than
IE7?

No question about it. Even by default it's more secure, but then if you go
through all of the security add-ons you can basically lock it down. Then
there's all the add-ons that improve functionality, and all these add-ons
work, no more coming here for the usual "disable your add-ons one by one"
rhetoric.

Mark

<> wrote in message
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On May 15, 5:18 am, "Mark" <secureourbord...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> It took me a long time, but I finally switched from IE to FF and I like it
> much better. FF has tons of add-ons and they work. It even has an add-on
> called IE tab for sites that require IE, which are very few, and displays
> them flawlessly. FF is now my default browser, and IE is only there for
> backup.

On my other Win2K computer, I use FF by default. But for the Vista
computer, I wanted to give IE7 a chance, as it supposedly has a lot
better security. Do you think FF is still better security-wise than
IE7?

<> wrote in message
news:0774458a-c126-4e7c-9879-...
>A few days ago I was playing Chess Titans, and then I opened up
> Internet Explorer. Within a few seconds, Vista froze. Couldn't move
> the mouse, CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't work. A hard reset was required.
>
> Now today I was playing Chess Titans, and I tried opening up Internet
> Explorer. Again, the system froze within a few seconds.

Works OK here. I frequently have both open for days at a time.