IE 11....What a Mess!

I give up on IE! Totally unreliable. Crashes everyday! Microsoft should suck
their tale!!!

"OREALLY" wrote in message news

I don't know about you folks but I am sick of seeing IE11 scew up! Every day
I get messages about how it must close, or has stopped working...or even
that it has stopped working when it clearly is working. If anyone knows how
to repair this mess let us know. I'm using Win 7 / 64 / Pro. But this
browser wouldn't even qualify as a Beta program based on its current
unreliability!

Oreally

OREALLY wrote:
(Proper quoting added by respondent since OP unwilling to correct the
defect in his choice of NNTP client.)

"OREALLY" wrote ...

I don't know about you folks but I am sick of seeing IE11 scew up!
Every day I get messages about how it must close, or has stopped
working...or even that it has stopped working when it clearly is
working. If anyone knows how to repair this mess let us know. I'm
using Win 7 / 64 / Pro. But this browser wouldn't even qualify as a
Beta program based on its current unreliability!

I give up on IE! Totally unreliable. Crashes everyday! Microsoft should suck
their tale!!!

Ah, so you were NOT here to request help on resolving the problem. You
just wanted to rant. Use the *.test newsgroups for that.

There's been no help to be had....You have some ideas? They would still
welcome!



"VanguardLH" wrote in message ...

OREALLY wrote:
(Proper quoting added by respondent since OP unwilling to correct the
defect in his choice of NNTP client.)

"OREALLY" wrote ...

I don't know about you folks but I am sick of seeing IE11 scew up!
Every day I get messages about how it must close, or has stopped
working...or even that it has stopped working when it clearly is
working. If anyone knows how to repair this mess let us know. I'm
using Win 7 / 64 / Pro. But this browser wouldn't even qualify as a
Beta program based on its current unreliability!

I give up on IE! Totally unreliable. Crashes everyday! Microsoft should
suck
their tale!!!

Ah, so you were NOT here to request help on resolving the problem. You
just wanted to rant. Use the *.test newsgroups for that.

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:39:01 +1100, Monty wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 16:46:53 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

[quoted text muted]

1. the FireFox add-on "Open Bookmarks in New Tab" doesn't work with
it. As far as I'm concerned, that should be a default in all browsers,
but it isn't.

Right-click on the bookmark and select "Open in a New Tab".

Even easier: Ctrl+click on the bookmark.



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http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:52:15 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:
OREALLY wrote:
(Proper quoting added by respondent since OP unwilling to correct the
defect in his choice of NNTP client.)

[quoted text muted]
Beta program based on its current unreliability!

I give up on IE! Totally unreliable. Crashes everyday! Microsoft should suck
their tale!!!

Ah, so you were NOT here to request help on resolving the problem. You
just wanted to rant.


That's one interpretation. :-)

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://BrownMath.com/
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
Shikata ga nai...

On 22/02/2017 01:44, OREALLY wrote:
There's been no help to be had....You have some ideas? They would
still welcome!




Try to repair install IE11 using the instructions given he

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/318378/how-to-repair-or-reinstall-internet-explorer-in-windows

You could also try creating a new User Profile to see if your current
profile is corrupted leading to crashes. It does happen from time to time.

As I said before, MS isn't developing IE any more. you can either
upgrade your OS and hardware so that you are on Windows 10 or start
using something else. I prefer using Microsoft Edge because it has less
crashes and all the websites I use loads as expected. You can also
block Flash player in Microsoft Edge so that is one less security risk.



--
With over 500 million devices now running Windows 10, customer
satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

"OREALLY" wrote

| There's been no help to be had....You have some ideas? They would still
| welcome!
|

If you really want help you might be better off in
an IE group. As youve been told, very few people
here use IE. When you get to that group it might
help if you detail the problems you have. "Crashing
every day" is not something anyone can help with.
You need to narrow down the issue in terms of
what sites and what actions are associated with
the crashing. If other people can't duplicate it then
how can they advise you?

OREALLY wrote:
There's been no help to be had....You have some ideas? They would still
welcome!

"Reset" is supposed to fix it.

Except if you have active malware/adware onboard.
Or, a proxy was set, and you haven't checked for that.
There is also DNS poisoning as a root cause of
some behaviors.

Not having Flash or Java might help I supposed,
from an attack surface point of view. At least the
Java is easy to chuck.

Paul

OREALLY wrote:

There's been no help to be had....

So you are dismissing everyone that has offered help just because it
didn't work for you? Sorry, God doesn't visit Usenet. Those of us that
had them used their limited number of magic bullets years ago.

You have some ideas? They would still welcome!

I previously mentioned some troubleshooting steps but you said "Done all
that". Something else to try is to boot Windows in its safe mode with
networking and test under a clean[er] instance of Windows. Might be
something else you've already done. Don't what you've already done
until you say so.

Something simple (don't know if you've already done this) is to set the
home page in IE to about:blank. Don't have IE load by trying to
immediately load a web page. Just have IE load by itself, show a blank
tab, and then test browsing to a site.

You mentioned before that you are going to try "delaying IE startup".
The reference to "delay" means, to me, that you intend to have IE as a
startup program. Why? If you want IE available the moment your log
into your Windows account but because some dependencies may not be ready
yet, don't start IE as a startup program but as a delayed scheduled
task. Add the startup of IE as a scheduled task but delay it from
loading. Choices in Task Scheduler under the new trigger "Begin new
task: At startup" a 30 seconds, 1 minute, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 8
hours, 1 day. Since you want IE available immediately (because you are
going to load it at startup) then try 30 seconds. There are 3rd party
products that give more granularity to when a startup program loads. I
remember using WinPatrol and I could tell it how long to delay a startup
program. The program had to be first defined as a startup program but
WinPatrol would usurp that entry to control when the program loaded.
There are probably other startup managers with the same feature.

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 20:53:11 -0500, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:39:01 +1100, Monty wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 16:46:53 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

[quoted text muted]

1. the FireFox add-on "Open Bookmarks in New Tab" doesn't work with
it. As far as I'm concerned, that should be a default in all browsers,
but it isn't.

Right-click on the bookmark and select "Open in a New Tab".

Even easier: Ctrl+click on the bookmark.

+1 Thanks for that tip.

Thank you!

"VanguardLH" wrote in message ...

OREALLY wrote:

There's been no help to be had....

So you are dismissing everyone that has offered help just because it
didn't work for you? Sorry, God doesn't visit Usenet. Those of us that
had them used their limited number of magic bullets years ago.

You have some ideas? They would still welcome!

I previously mentioned some troubleshooting steps but you said "Done all
that". Something else to try is to boot Windows in its safe mode with
networking and test under a clean[er] instance of Windows. Might be
something else you've already done. Don't what you've already done
until you say so.

Something simple (don't know if you've already done this) is to set the
home page in IE to about:blank. Don't have IE load by trying to
immediately load a web page. Just have IE load by itself, show a blank
tab, and then test browsing to a site.

You mentioned before that you are going to try "delaying IE startup".
The reference to "delay" means, to me, that you intend to have IE as a
startup program. Why? If you want IE available the moment your log
into your Windows account but because some dependencies may not be ready
yet, don't start IE as a startup program but as a delayed scheduled
task. Add the startup of IE as a scheduled task but delay it from
loading. Choices in Task Scheduler under the new trigger "Begin new
task: At startup" a 30 seconds, 1 minute, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 8
hours, 1 day. Since you want IE available immediately (because you are
going to load it at startup) then try 30 seconds. There are 3rd party
products that give more granularity to when a startup program loads. I
remember using WinPatrol and I could tell it how long to delay a startup
program. The program had to be first defined as a startup program but
WinPatrol would usurp that entry to control when the program loaded.
There are probably other startup managers with the same feature.

OREALLY wrote:

Thank you!

Did something work? Let us know, please.

IE still crashes daily (more than once)...this has been going on for years.
I've disabled add-ons, tried various changes in the options / advanced etc.
Still no luck!

"VanguardLH" wrote in message ...

OREALLY wrote:

Thank you!

Did something work? Let us know, please.

OREALLY wrote:

IE still crashes daily (more than once)...this has been going on for years.
I've disabled add-ons, tried various changes in the options / advanced etc.
Still no luck!

Have you tried sfc.exe /scannow? Another possibility is the boot using
the install CD and do a Restore (inplace upgrade) to step on the files.
If everything suggested or found online fails, might be time to consider
a fresh install of the OS (and then only install the software that you
actually use now).

Personally I haven't found a web browser that doesn't crash
occasionally. They've become behemoths riddled with bugs. It's not
like you're using a simple one, like Lynx.

Thanks for your support of IE. Unfortunately, a clean reinstall of the OS is
so time consuming that I'd rather use Chrome. It has yet to crash and boots
up immediately. Too bad. IE has its advantages...but based on what I've been
reading about IE / Edge in Win 10.... I doubt there is much real support for
it from Microsoft these days.

"Stan Brown" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:52:15 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:
OREALLY wrote:
(Proper quoting added by respondent since OP unwilling to correct the
defect in his choice of NNTP client.)

[quoted text muted]
Beta program based on its current unreliability!

I give up on IE! Totally unreliable. Crashes everyday! Microsoft should
suck
their tale!!!

Ah, so you were NOT here to request help on resolving the problem. You
just wanted to rant.


That's one interpretation. :-)

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://BrownMath.com/
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
Shikata ga nai...