Just the past week, I've had to use the three-finger salute  a half dozen times as IE freezes. Haven't had a problem before, changed nothing in the last week. Any ideas?What antivirus protection do you have?

What VERSION of Vista do you have?

How much RAM and free HARD drive space do you have?


One step to TROUBLESHOOT so far without any information:
Click Start, and type: Internet explorer no add ons
Run that version of Internet Explorer. Does it work fine without crashing?
If so, then you are most likely having issues with addons.

Close Internet Explorer without Add Ons, and open the regular Internet Explorer.
Press the ALT key if the Menubar isnt already up. Then Tools> Manage Addons> "Enable or Disable Addons"

Disable anything you dont recognize or that you dont think you need. Things that you should usually keep:
Windows Live Signin (If you use Hotmail or other MSN services)
Shockwave Flash Object, Shockwave, or Adobe Air... or anything like Adobe
Adobe Reader
Java TM
Silverlight

If there is anything in there with a non-English (or non-whatever-your-primary-language-is, as well as non-English) and anything that looks like random numbers letters and characters put together.


Avira AntiVir Personal.
Vista Home Premium
3GB Ram
Acer Aspire M5630
Intel Core2 Duo CPU
32 Bit
HD 228 GB Free Space 161 GB

I disabled some things like Yahoo and Google tool bars, along with some HP printer items (I don't even know what they are for).

Thanks for your help.Does Avira handle spyware and adware?

Also, is it updated, and have you run a scan on your entire drive recently?


Edit:
I suppose I should mention, viewing your running addons would help in the process of stopping adware & viruses from interfering with Internet Explorer, however, some are sneaky, and may not appear on the list, and things like popups and other whatnot may not even be operating directly inside the browser. Avira is a free antivir program. It runs a check a number of times a day. I also have Defender doing it's thing once a day. What kind of antivir do you reccommend for Vista?

Shockwave, Adobe, Sun Java Console, and ACER eData Security are the only add-ons running. I appreciate your help. I am contemplating a downgrade to XP, but only because of things like this. I want to start doing web pages and can't afford constant garbage like this.  I noticed my computer is only using a Service Pack 1.  Are there any upgrades you'd reccomend?Try this:

1. Launch the Internet Explorer window.
2. Select Tools > Internet Options.
3. On the Internet Options pop-up window select the " ADVANCED" tab.
4. Uncheck "Enable third party browser extension".
5. Check the option "Disable Script Debugging(Internet Explorer)" and Uncheck "Display a notification about every script error check "
6. Click  on OK. Close and open Internet Explorer.



Press and hold Windows Key on keyboard and press R. It will open Run Window. Type the following in the open box and click OK

iexplore.exe –extoff

Issue will be solved