Every once and a while, when I close an Internet Explorer window, it causes IE to freeze. Sometimes it would also cause Windows Explorer to crash, but most of the time IE crashes by itself. So I ctrl+alt+del it and that would just kill my computer. Nothing would work after that. The only thing that would move is the mouse but everything is unresponsive. This has been going on for a while now but never crashed more than twice a day. Now it's every couple of hours. And I recently downloaded one of those pop up stoppers and it closes more windows which causes this freezing of my pc.

Have you tried the IE Repair, this would seem to be the first option? If not, go to Control Panel/Add-Remove and in the Install/Uninstall tab double click the entry for Microsoft IE and tools. Hopefully a repair option will be on the list. If so, give it a whirl - it's harmless. Derek

Thanks Derek. I just repaired IE. Let's see how it goes for the next couple of days. I'll post my stats later. Thanks again!

OK, let's hope you are lucky. Derek

Guess I wasn't so lucky. I was just surfing the net and just as I closed a window, it froze. This is exactly what happens. First the window hangs (only that window, no other windows or programs). Then I ctrl+alt+del it to discover that it's not responding. So I end task, but the window stays there and my whole system is now frozen. It doesn't respond to anything, not even ctrl+alt+del two times to restart. This is really frustrating sometimes!

Hi, Please upgrade to latest version of Internet explorer to resolve the problem you are facing. If you are using the latest version then please reinstall IE. Regards, Qginie.

Hi, I'm facing a similar problem. Every time, I handle with more the one browser window (at least it seems so), my whole system will freeze. I tried IE 6.0.2600, Netscape 7.0 and Mozilla 1.4 - it was all the same. any idea ? thanx Wolfgang