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Tom Jensen · 10-29-2001, 11:58 AM

I have posted this message for one month on the MSN message board for IE 6.0, and also on this forum in the Windows 98 forum. No one seems to have ever encountered it, which is frustrating in and of itself. I cannot believe that a problem this repeatable and this catastrophic is isolated only to my PC. I did get a great reply from H-Pro with some details on how to clean up/speed up my machine. Theses ideas worked great, but still I have a very repeatable IE 6.0 problem. I have copied the post below. Any help will be truly appreciated!

Has ANYONE had this same problem:

"I am using IE 6.0, Windows 98 SE, Pentium II 166 MHz. I realize this may be a WWW Forum issue, but it seemed more Windows/OS-related, so I am putting it here.

Often when trying to load a page that has graphics, IE 6.0 completely locks up. The frame is still there, but the inside of the window is hollow (graphics from any previous page or program remain.)

If I click another icon down on the task bar to expand another (previously running) program such as Outlook or MS Word, then subsequently clicking on the IE icon down on the toolbar fails to expand the IE browser window.

The really frustrating thing is that I CAN'T CLOSE the browser to try again. I also cannot back out of the problem page.

To attempt to close, I right click on the browser's icon on my bottom tool bar and click "close." This does nothing.

I finally do CTRL-ALT-DEL, and click "End Task" for IE. This either does nothing, or gives me the second pop-up asking me if I want to end the running task now. I click "End Task" and the screen just goes blank. Ultimately, after waiting for several minutes and the screen never coming back, I am forced to manually power down the computer and start all over.

I often (many times daily) delete ALL off-line content (Temp Internet Files), so that isn't the problem.

Any help would be appreciated."

10-29-2001, 11:58 AM	#1
Tom Jensen Member (8 bit) Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 135	Desparately Need Help: IE 6.0 Lock-up I have posted this message for one month on the MSN message board for IE 6.0, and also on this forum in the Windows 98 forum. No one seems to have ever encountered it, which is frustrating in and of itself. I cannot believe that a problem this repeatable and this catastrophic is isolated only to my PC. I did get a great reply from H-Pro with some details on how to clean up/speed up my machine. Theses ideas worked great, but still I have a very repeatable IE 6.0 problem. I have copied the post below. Any help will be truly appreciated! Has ANYONE had this same problem: "I am using IE 6.0, Windows 98 SE, Pentium II 166 MHz. I realize this may be a WWW Forum issue, but it seemed more Windows/OS-related, so I am putting it here. Often when trying to load a page that has graphics, IE 6.0 completely locks up. The frame is still there, but the inside of the window is hollow (graphics from any previous page or program remain.) If I click another icon down on the task bar to expand another (previously running) program such as Outlook or MS Word, then subsequently clicking on the IE icon down on the toolbar fails to expand the IE browser window. The really frustrating thing is that I CAN'T CLOSE the browser to try again. I also cannot back out of the problem page. To attempt to close, I right click on the browser's icon on my bottom tool bar and click "close." This does nothing. I finally do CTRL-ALT-DEL, and click "End Task" for IE. This either does nothing, or gives me the second pop-up asking me if I want to end the running task now. I click "End Task" and the screen just goes blank. Ultimately, after waiting for several minutes and the screen never coming back, I am forced to manually power down the computer and start all over. I often (many times daily) delete ALL off-line content (Temp Internet Files), so that isn't the problem. Any help would be appreciated."