On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:41:05 -0400, webster72n wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:21:15 -0400, webster72n wrote:

Because my browser froze while windows was loading, I wound up doing a
System Restore with an undo, since Internet Explorer, Health & Support
and my Weather Bug Desktop stopped working correctly, due to a problem.

How do I know what kind of a problem and how to fix it?
So far I was always able to do it, but this one is beyond.

Apparently System restore caused my current situation.

I am on dial-up and was downloading and installing Avira and AVG in
addition to running Avast, which kept asking me to 'upgrade', when my
browser froze afterwards. While one program was running, the other two
were disabled, the reason being for me to choose between them.

OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit & IE9 w. SP2.
PC: Dell Inspiron 530S.
There are no problems with free space or memory.

Any suggestions?

Harry.

These popped into my mind instantly...

If you are running several of these AV programs at once, that might be
causing the lockups. Uninstall or at least disable all but one. These
programs each look at files that you are accessing; if two or three
programs are competing with each other in this process, you lose...

I disabled the other two and ran only one at a time.

You might also consider going back one or two restores further than what
you already did.

That is worth a try.

I'm not sure that you can download IE to a thumb drive, but if you can,
then do that on another computer and then (re)install IE on your
computer from the thumb drive.

Otherwise, install another browser on your computer so you can download
and reinstall IE. You might need to use another computer to do this with
a thumb drive, but other browsers should work this way.

Believe it or not, I do have Opera, Firefox and Chrome installed and
they all work. Therefore I will give your suggestion a try in the hope
that it will fix the problem with IE. The instances of a locked IE are
more plentiful than I mentioned.
If nothing works I will have to start from scratch, which I tried to avoid.

Thanks for your help, Gene.

Harry.

Good luck!

Sorry I don't know any more than what I wrote before.

And have a nice weekend, if the above problem doesn't spook you out of
it...

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)