IE/Browser Problem?

I am having a lot of intermittent problems surfing the web. IE is hanging
up!!. When I double click on the IE Icon it may, or may not connect & bring
up our Home Page. If it does connect, I may be able to surf for a while, and
then try to go to another website (or home page) and nothing happens. On the
IE bar on the bottom it just says Web Site found..........waiting for
reply.......... From this point it never connects again until I re-start my
machine. Even with re-starting it sometimes doesn't connect.
There is no pattern to it. I have the latest Windows updates (perhaps the
problem??), the latest version of IE, Norton Internet Security 2006, etc.
(which, by the way, shows I have no viruses, spyware, etc)
I have tried everything I know and it's still doing the same thing. I
thought it may be one of the Browser Add Ons, but have been
disabling/enabling them for the past week now & nothing seems to make a
difference. I am currently in the process of uninstalling the Windows Updates
one at a time to see if one of them is the problem.
This has been going on since approximately December 20th. Up until then it
was fine.
Can anyone help? Same problem?
PS - NOT my Cable/Internet connection (first thing I checked) - My email
works great!

I am having the same exact problem! I am looking for a way to uninstall the
internet exlorer and reinstall it. I have windows 98 and have the current
6.0 version of explorer. I am so frustrated that I may swich to Netscape

"Monty" wrote:

> I am having a lot of intermittent problems surfing the web. IE is hanging
> up!!. When I double click on the IE Icon it may, or may not connect & bring
> up our Home Page. If it does connect, I may be able to surf for a while, and
> then try to go to another website (or home page) and nothing happens. On the
> IE bar on the bottom it just says Web Site found..........waiting for
> reply.......... From this point it never connects again until I re-start my
> machine. Even with re-starting it sometimes doesn't connect.
> There is no pattern to it. I have the latest Windows updates (perhaps the
> problem??), the latest version of IE, Norton Internet Security 2006, etc.
> (which, by the way, shows I have no viruses, spyware, etc)
> I have tried everything I know and it's still doing the same thing. I
> thought it may be one of the Browser Add Ons, but have been
> disabling/enabling them for the past week now & nothing seems to make a
> difference. I am currently in the process of uninstalling the Windows Updates
> one at a time to see if one of them is the problem.
> This has been going on since approximately December 20th. Up until then it
> was fine.
> Can anyone help? Same problem?
> PS - NOT my Cable/Internet connection (first thing I checked) - My email
> works great!
>

I had the same problems, too...notice I said "had"... Actually, I also ran
across the same problems on a family member's computer, too.

The solution: I installed Mozilla Firefox, including all of the extensions
available, and haven't had one problem since. Well, except for not being
able to access the Microsoft Update site...you cannot get into microsoft
unless you have their problem-laden IE 5.0 or above.

Mozilla Firefox is FREE, too, and an excellent browser, which is highly
rated by all the PC magazines (my guru is PC World). Try it. Firefox will
import all your favorites, too. You can always go back to IE...

Good luck!

"Debbie" wrote:

> I am having the same exact problem! I am looking for a way to uninstall the
> internet exlorer and reinstall it. I have windows 98 and have the current
> 6.0 version of explorer. I am so frustrated that I may swich to Netscape
>
> "Monty" wrote:
>
> > I am having a lot of intermittent problems surfing the web. IE is hanging
> > up!!. When I double click on the IE Icon it may, or may not connect & bring
> > up our Home Page. If it does connect, I may be able to surf for a while, and
> > then try to go to another website (or home page) and nothing happens. On the
> > IE bar on the bottom it just says Web Site found..........waiting for
> > reply.......... From this point it never connects again until I re-start my
> > machine. Even with re-starting it sometimes doesn't connect.
> > There is no pattern to it. I have the latest Windows updates (perhaps the
> > problem??), the latest version of IE, Norton Internet Security 2006, etc.
> > (which, by the way, shows I have no viruses, spyware, etc)
> > I have tried everything I know and it's still doing the same thing. I
> > thought it may be one of the Browser Add Ons, but have been
> > disabling/enabling them for the past week now & nothing seems to make a
> > difference. I am currently in the process of uninstalling the Windows Updates
> > one at a time to see if one of them is the problem.
> > This has been going on since approximately December 20th. Up until then it
> > was fine.
> > Can anyone help? Same problem?
> > PS - NOT my Cable/Internet connection (first thing I checked) - My email
> > works great!
> >