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Keith - 22 Jun 2007 18:50 GMT

Recently, following the recent Microsoft updates, my IE7 does not seem to
close properly. I first noticed this because I couldn't open a web site from
Favourites, or direct from shortcuts to IE7, nothing was happening. By
chance I discovered that if I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del, that iexplore was
running, when I closed this down amazingly the IE7 window opened normally.
Since this first observation I have noticed that the first time I open IE7,
everything is normal, but SOMETIMES, the closure of IE7 leaves iexplore
running as a process and subsequent attempts to open IE7 do not work -
nothing happens. This can result in a number of instances of iexplore
running as processes and the IE7 window will not upon until these are all
closed down!
Anyone else seen this? Any ideas? Help!!! I don't want to role back to
before the updates, but I may have to.

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Gistcheckin - 22 Jun 2007 19:02 GMT

Task manager multiple IE processes
http://forums.pcpitstop.com/index.php?showtopic=133301&pid=1318766&st=0&#entry1318766

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> Recently, following the recent Microsoft updates, my IE7 does not seem to
> close properly. I first noticed this because I couldn't open a web site from
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> Anyone else seen this? Any ideas? Help!!! I don't want to role back to
> before the updates, but I may have to.

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Keith - 22 Jun 2007 19:16 GMT

This is not a Malware problem - I have anti-malware programs running and have
searched the computer regularly!

K

> Task manager multiple IE processes
> http://forums.pcpitstop.com/index.php?showtopic=133301&pid=1318766&st=0&#entry1318766
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> > Anyone else seen this? Any ideas? Help!!! I don't want to role back to
> > before the updates, but I may have to.

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> This is not a Malware problem - I have anti-malware programs running and
> have
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PA Bear - 22 Jun 2007 20:26 GMT

You may have a horked (dirty; bad; flawed) install of IE7. I suggest that
you..,

1. Uninstall IE7 (which automatically returns you to IE6) per
http://www.ie-vista.com/kbase2.html

2. Uninstall all toolbars and third-party Windows Themes (including Window
Blinds).

3. Reinstall IE7 per http://www.ie-vista.com/known_issues.html#pre-install,
and using http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/default.mspx as the
installation source, not Automatic/Windows Update.

Also see:

IEBlog : IE7 (Un)Installation and Anti-Malware Applications
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/11/IE7-Installation-and-Anti_2D00_Malwa
re-Applications.aspx

What's New in Internet Explorer 7
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/essentials/whatsnew/whatsnew_70_sdk.asp?frame=true

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> Recently, following the recent Microsoft updates, my IE7 does not seem to
> close properly. I first noticed this because I couldn't open a web site
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> Anyone else seen this? Any ideas? Help!!! I don't want to role back to
> before the updates, but I may have to.

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Keith - 01 Jul 2007 22:04 GMT

This has stopped as a problem - for no apparent reason!

maybe Microsoft did a fix in an update? I don't know, but I didn't do
anything.

Keith

> You may have a horked (dirty; bad; flawed) install of IE7. I suggest that
> you..,
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> > Anyone else seen this? Any ideas? Help!!! I don't want to role back to
> > before the updates, but I may have to.

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