Tonight IE suddenly stopped displaying pages at all. When I open Explorer, I get the connecting to site messages at the bottom with the green status bar on the right before it quickly changes to "Done" at the bottom left. It's exactly as it normally would do, except my home page doesn't show up at all. It's just a white blank page. If I type an address into IE or try to navigate to one of my favorites I get the same blank pages. The Mozilla and AOL browsers, on the other hand, work completely fine. I've done a virus scan and Ad Aware scan to no avail. Should I re-install IE? What gives?

You obviously have a network connection but the internals of IE have been compromised. IE is tied to your profile which may be corrupted? If spyware isn't the issue which I don't think is the case-spyware would stll allow internet access within IE). Try creating a new user account/password under control panel, login with the new account and configure/test IE. Run a virus scan as well....those never hurt.

Thanks! That worked. I created a new account and IE works fine when I log in under that account. The virus scan brought up nothing though. Is there anyway to fix the IE on the other account, or should I not even bother?

uninstall it and reinstall it. Just like other programs IE gets wacky and needs to be worked on. IN THE MATTERS OF STYLE, swim with the current; in matters of principle, STAND LIKE A ROCK

Perhaps a dumb question, but when trying to uninstall IE through the control panel, it does nothing more than remove the icon from the desktop and quick launch area. How can I completely uninstall it and reinstall?

I suggest that your dump IE out of windows and get yourself a fresh copy of a extremly well efficiently programmed HTML browser called firefox at www.mozilla.com for the windows OS. Mozilla has no no no no popups like gay windows, if u want to be freeded from those nasty windows pop ups. get mozilla. its more highly securelized. trt to stay away from IE explore its garbage.