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d-day - 31 Jul 2005 22:01 GMT

Wife's XP Professional(SP2) Internet Explorer has stopped working. When
attempting to execute, the
hourglass appears for maybe2-4 seconds and then disappears---that is all.
System has latest patches, and
no new software/patches were installed that correspond to the time it
stopped working. If there are some
error messages being produced in a log somewhere I do not see them--don't
see anything in the events
logs.

Full Virus scan shows nothing, Adware and Spyware cleaners have been run and
still nothing.

If you connect to the same desktop as a "different" user, Internet Explorer
runs fine, so I assume she got
into something "nasty" that messed up her profile. Cleaned out cookies and
temporary internet folders with
no success.

Anybody have ideas how to debug this?

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Adrian - 02 Aug 2005 21:13 GMT

I have see this a few times and each time it has been spyware/toolbar run
spybot S&D or HijackThis, or both!

I know you have run anti spyware but it depends on what the problem is, as
to which one will fix it!!

Try deleting the files in

> Wife's XP Professional(SP2) Internet Explorer has stopped working. When
> attempting to execute, the
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> Anybody have ideas how to debug this?

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dpa - 25 Sep 2005 01:04 GMT

That didn't solve the problem, any other ideas?

> I have see this a few times and each time it has been spyware/toolbar run
> spybot S&D or HijackThis, or both!
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>>Anybody have ideas how to debug this?

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IE6 No longer Launches