Problems with IE after installing WinXP sp3

I am having a problem with Internet Explorer 6. About half of the time I go
and click on any of the desktop link, quicklaunch link, or Windows Update
under Start menu IE 6 does not launch at all. The other half of the time it
launches with no problems at all. But the other times it doesn't, I can
click I can double click still nothing. Another thing I have found is when I
do the Three Finger for the shutdown box, I find of course no running
programs but under processes there can be anywhere from ten to fifeteen
iexplorer processes running. Even though I have not even seen one window.
Now and then if I end task all of these processes then IE will launch when
clicked. At least once while I was at least half way though end tasking IE
all of a sudden popped up and fully loaded my home page. I have and reguraly
do clean all cookies, Temp files, run antivirus, spybot, adaware. I didn't
have any problems installing the sp3 update. Any help would be much
appriciated.

See replies to your original thread.

tigerand wrote:
> I am having a problem with Internet Explorer 6. About half of the time I
> go
> and click on any of the desktop link, quicklaunch link, or Windows Update
> under Start menu IE 6 does not launch at all. The other half of the time
> it
> launches with no problems at all. But the other times it doesn't, I can
> click I can double click still nothing. Another thing I have found is
> when
> I do the Three Finger for the shutdown box, I find of course no running
> programs but under processes there can be anywhere from ten to fifeteen
> iexplorer processes running. Even though I have not even seen one window.
> Now and then if I end task all of these processes then IE will launch when
> clicked. At least once while I was at least half way though end tasking
> IE
> all of a sudden popped up and fully loaded my home page. I have and
> reguraly do clean all cookies, Temp files, run antivirus, spybot, adaware.
> I didn't have any problems installing the sp3 update. Any help would be
> much appriciated.

I have done as you requested and sent off a hijackthis log. It was analyzed
by the spybot team and was determined to be no infestation showing. My
computer is clean. I have antivirus and firewall running. Run Spybot,
Adaware, and TrojanRemover. Done several different online scans. Clean as a
wistle. And I still have the problem. It is quet annoying. It did not
start until after sp3 was installed. Any more ideas?

Any chance you could try IE7?

Eddie Bowers
Security Support
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Any chance you could quote the posts you're replying to?
--
~PA Bear

Eddie Bowers [MSFT] wrote:
> Any chance you could try IE7?
>
> Eddie Bowers
> Security Support
> Microsoft Corporation
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.

Sorry, i'm using in internal tool that kind of manages and tracks the
newsgroups and it a little flakey when it comes to including the previous
posts, so I tend to not use that feature. But then I forget to do it
manually
It also tends to spit out all of my replies for the day at the same time,
so sometimes it may appear that I reply to something that you have already
handled.

Eddie Bowers
Security Support
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


--------------------
From: "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <>

Any chance you could quote the posts you're replying to?
--
~PA Bear

Thanks for this reply, at least! It's confusing as h*** without the
quoting, at least for those of us who use a newsreader and Hide Read
Messages and/or delete messages older than X days on a regular basis (e.g.,
most MVPs here).
--
~Robear

Eddie Bowers [MSFT] wrote:
> Sorry, i'm using in internal tool that kind of manages and tracks the
> newsgroups and it a little flakey when it comes to including the previous
> posts, so I tend to not use that feature. But then I forget to do it
> manually
> It also tends to spit out all of my replies for the day at the same time,
> so sometimes it may appear that I reply to something that you have already
> handled.
>
> Eddie Bowers
> Security Support
> Microsoft Corporation
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
>
> --------------------
> From: "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <>
>
> Any chance you could quote the posts you're replying to?

Sorry guys I don't know if this is idle chatter. Or your are talking to me.
I have been patiently waiting and regularly checking for updates. I did post
a comment on another post but then thought that it would have been more
appropriate to state my problem seperately. The other post was "IE does not
work after Windows Updates" posted by "grahamg" on 5/26/08. I am still
trying everything under the sun to solve this puzzle.

Eddie & I were ribbing each other about something totally unrelated to your
problem.

Eddie posted a suggestion to install IE7 and see if that would help. I
wouldn't recommend that myself, at least not yet.

Your "Me, too!" post in someone else's thread included the following:

<QP>
Another thing I have found is when I do the Three Finger for the shutdown
box, I find of course no running programs but under processes there can be
anywhere from ten to fifeteen iexplorer processes running. Even though I
have not even seen one window.
</QP>

In your own thread (i.e., this one), you posted:

<QP>
I have done as you requested and sent off a hijackthis log. It was analyzed
by the spybot team and was determined to be no infestation showing. My
computer is clean.
</QP>

Can you post a link to the forum thread where the "spybot team" examined
your HijackThis log and pronounced it clean, please?

Are you still seeing multiple instances of IE (iexplore.exe) in Task Manager
after you've closed all IE windows?

What anti-virus application or security suite is installed? What
anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall
(if any)?

NB: Please quote this entire post in your reply.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
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tigerand wrote:
> Sorry guys I don't know if this is idle chatter. Or your are talking to
> me.
> I have been patiently waiting and regularly checking for updates. I did
> post a comment on another post but then thought that it would have been
> more
> appropriate to state my problem seperately. The other post was "IE does
> not
> work after Windows Updates" posted by "grahamg" on 5/26/08. I am still
> trying everything under the sun to solve this puzzle.