IE Not Opening

[leeym]

I've got IE 6.0 on WinXP Pro with all the latst updates and patches. However, upon trying to open the browser, nothing happens except for the hourglass appears for a few seconds.

I thought it may be a virus, but Symantec Antivirus says all partitions are clean. I ven double checked to make sure that the shortcut does point to "iexplorer.exe."

Any thoughts as to why this would be happening?

 

[DumbGuy]

try "iexplore.exe" without the R at the end of explorer

 

[us3rnotfound]

Originally posted by: DumbGuy
try "iexplore.exe" without the R at the end of explorer

for a dumb guy, you're dumb

 

[leeym]

Sorry guys. it was "iexplore.exe"

As a workaround, I've been accesssing the internet on this box using windows explorer since it's integrated with IE. However, after a few clickthroughs, this also crashes or hangs.

Any thoughts?

 

[Zugzwang152]

Sounds to me like you have spyware or a hijack in your IE which is preventing it from opening properly. Run adaware and spybot 1.3. If this fails, try to reset your winsock settings by typing --> "netsh int ip reset C:\log.txt" from a command prompt. C:\log.txt can be any path you want a log of the command written to. Unforunately, IE is integrated into windows xp and cannot be foricbly uninstalled. if the above does not work, try executing "sfc /scannow" to replace any corrupt system files.