What a shame, Vista gets the blame

For months I have been living with the problem of IE7 suddenly hanging and
taking 50 to 100% CPU time with the only solution to kill the process. I
upgraded all the activeX controls and even disabled them (seems disabled
activeX controls still seem to run if not uninstalled). Anyway I was
tooling around the Adobe website and was checking on the health of my flash
player plug-in (which I always secretly suspected was the culprit) and
noticed I was running an old version which was strange since I just
installed the latest upgrade 2 weeks ago. Ok, no biggie, I'll download it
again. Hmmm, STILL the old version. No error during the install so you
have NO CLUE the install didn't work. Completely uninstalled Flash Player
using THEIR uninstaller, which seems to be the ONLY way to uninstall it, the
reinstalled and Hey! The latest version is now installed and what a
surprise. I can't get IE7 to crash or hang at all.

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Mark R. Cusumano
Skype Name: mark.cusumano
Web: http://The-Padded-Cell.spaces.live.com

Thanks for posting your experience. The last Flash update solved a lot of
folk's issues with IE7.

"Mark R. Cusumano" wrote:

> For months I have been living with the problem of IE7 suddenly hanging and
> taking 50 to 100% CPU time with the only solution to kill the process. I
> upgraded all the activeX controls and even disabled them (seems disabled
> activeX controls still seem to run if not uninstalled). Anyway I was
> tooling around the Adobe website and was checking on the health of my flash
> player plug-in (which I always secretly suspected was the culprit) and
> noticed I was running an old version which was strange since I just
> installed the latest upgrade 2 weeks ago. Ok, no biggie, I'll download it
> again. Hmmm, STILL the old version. No error during the install so you
> have NO CLUE the install didn't work. Completely uninstalled Flash Player
> using THEIR uninstaller, which seems to be the ONLY way to uninstall it, the
> reinstalled and Hey! The latest version is now installed and what a
> surprise. I can't get IE7 to crash or hang at all.
>
> --
> Mark R. Cusumano
> Skype Name: mark.cusumano
> Web: http://The-Padded-Cell.spaces.live.com
>
>
>
>

"PNutts" <> wrote in message
news:04C84F67-C245-41A9-A309-...
> Thanks for posting your experience. The last Flash update solved a lot of
> folk's issues with IE7.
>
> "Mark R. Cusumano" wrote:
>
>> For months I have been living with the problem of IE7 suddenly hanging
>> and
>> taking 50 to 100% CPU time with the only solution to kill the process. I
>> upgraded all the activeX controls and even disabled them (seems disabled
>> activeX controls still seem to run if not uninstalled). Anyway I was
>> tooling around the Adobe website and was checking on the health of my
>> flash
>> player plug-in (which I always secretly suspected was the culprit) and
>> noticed I was running an old version which was strange since I just
>> installed the latest upgrade 2 weeks ago. Ok, no biggie, I'll download
>> it
>> again. Hmmm, STILL the old version. No error during the install so you
>> have NO CLUE the install didn't work. Completely uninstalled Flash
>> Player
>> using THEIR uninstaller, which seems to be the ONLY way to uninstall it,
>> the
>> reinstalled and Hey! The latest version is now installed and what a
>> surprise. I can't get IE7 to crash or hang at all.
>>
>> --
>> Mark R. Cusumano
>> Skype Name: mark.cusumano
>> Web: http://The-Padded-Cell.spaces.live.com
>>
>>
>>
>>

Yeah it was getting to the point that loading Task Manager before IE7 was
becoming a habit :-)

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Mark R. Cusumano
Skype Name: mark.cusumano
Web: http://The-Padded-Cell.spaces.live.com