Since rebuilding my system in a new case, I've started having trouble with Internet Explorer locking up. It locks at random times, usually between 5 and 15 minutes, not allowing me to click anything. If I mouse over the "X" in the upper right of the window, or the desktop icon on the taskbar, they won't highlight, and arent' clickable. I can hit "Ctrl-Alt-Del" twice and it displays the blue screen saying "Windows is busy waiting for the close program dialog box..." I can then press space, and it shows me the close dialog box. IE is always listed as "not responding" and I can close it there and re-open it, and all's fine until the next time it locks up.
I don't think it's the modem, it's a Creative Modem Blaster, and the driver's updated, and through closing and re-starting IE the internet connection stays fine, and all's well there. Thinking it was a bad installation I re-installed IE 5.0. That didn't fix the problem. I then installed the Opera browser, version 3.1. It acts just like IE, locking up and the whole nine yards is the same. I had to type this message in notepad, and cut and paste it to this post, because the first time I tried typing it to the post it locked up about as soon as I was finished. Any help's appreciated.
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I'll be checking back in a few minutes...after I kill and restart IE
I don't think it's the modem, it's a Creative Modem Blaster, and the driver's updated, and through closing and re-starting IE the internet connection stays fine, and all's well there. Thinking it was a bad installation I re-installed IE 5.0. That didn't fix the problem. I then installed the Opera browser, version 3.1. It acts just like IE, locking up and the whole nine yards is the same. I had to type this message in notepad, and cut and paste it to this post, because the first time I tried typing it to the post it locked up about as soon as I was finished. Any help's appreciated.
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I'll be checking back in a few minutes...after I kill and restart IE