Hello David
Sounds like an activeX component problem.
I would try monitoring the last parts before ie starts not responding. If
you like to do so, you might use filemon and regmon (freeware from
sysinternals.com)
Hope this helps
Tom
"David Weaver" <David
> wrote in message
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>I had to repair windows and since then, when I go to microsoft.com or try
>to
> update windows through Help and Support or explorer, the page freezes and
> I
> have to close the window wwith task manager. Does anyone have any info on
> this?