I have a near new Toshiba Qosmio with Media Centre installed. It had IE6 installed on it when I got it new, and I upgraded it to IE7. Ever since then I have had problems with it freezing up on pages loading, and I have to use Task Manager to shut it down. This is intermittent, but happens off and on every day, and is driving me nuts........! I uninstalled it and re-installed it, but the same thing is still happening. I also wonder what the system is where you BUY a new computer with Windows installed and don't have the Cd to correct any issues, which I have been prompted for at one stage. Do I have to buy one? :-?If it is nearly new, then I would contact Toshiba directly and see about a restore disk or whatever they offer.I have actually found my recovery disc in my archives. It tells me to place the disc in the drive, power up the computer while holding down the'C' key when the screen reads Toshiba, and it will format the hard drive. Will this WIPE all my installed programs, files, etc...... i.e. have a clean sweep? I am HAPPY for that to happen, but don't want to lose anything. Thanks...........Yes a format WILL erase all your data...try the suggestion above and contact the manuf.OK, will do. But just out of interest, should I use it in the future, will this disc I have uninstall Windows as well? Thanks.........With caution. A rescue CD from the manufacturer is designed with one thing in mind...to take that machine back to Day One out of the box as in brand new.

After doing this any data you had prior to this is GONE for good. And any programs and UPDATES you have installed that did NOT come with the machine are gone as well and would need to be re-installed...

Not the best choice but when there's no other...[size=14][/size]I tried IE7 for about a week and with some help from Microsoft, returned to IE6. My email only being capable of plain text was one issue. The other was I lost a couple programs I had before installing IE7. My brother-in-law told me it's still in the beta phase and not mess with it until it has all the bugs worked out.

Cheers,
JoyceThanks Joyce. I have actually taken the huge step of cleaning out the hard drive and starting afresh, mainly because I wanted to see how hard it was for a learner to do, and it was fine! I didn't have much data to save, and still have my old computer which has 2 hard drives on it. The only thing I lost was my address book, and it's available upstairs. So, as you say, I will keep IE6 and wait for a while. In the meantime play around with FireFox...you may never look back.

patio.  8-)Thanks Patio. If I download Firefox, do I need to uninstall IE? Or do I just choose FF as my default browser?Just set FireFox as default ...leave IE alone. It is needed for Windows updates anyways.

FireFox will import your IE favorites as well.

patio.     8-)