Go ahead and buy a Mac, and have fun with the fact that you can NEVER upgrade them, and a lot of software won’t run on them. So what do you get for the money? Yeah, a trendy yuppie white case and no need to run an AVP, so you save $60 buying that $2,000 iTool…

simple sound advice. Solved my problem immediately.

Regards,
Bryan

Internet Explorer (7 and 8) will open and close immediately under Vista Home Premium. I have tried the following:

1) Run IE in no adds-on mode. Does the same thing.

2) Reset all settings under the Internet Options Panel—when it gets to the third part ‘Applying Default Settings’ it fails.

3) Run Malware Malabytes in Safe Mode—nothing detected.

4) Install IE8 (wasn’t working back when it was IE7), still no luck. Uninstalled back to IE 7, no working, and then back to IE8.

So, any ideas? I normally use Firefox and Opera, but there is one specific work-related website that requires some ASP scripting that neither Firefox or Opera can handle!

Thanks!

-bea

For 2 or 3 months I have not been able to run IE on my VISTA Home Professional computer. Of course, as it happens, I really prefer Firefox anyway, so I didn’t spend a lot of time trying to fix it. But it irks me when things don’t work, especially when they are so much a part of the Operating System (even if they supposedly have been completely separated from it).

So this morning I went looking for a solution, and ended up here. I ran into a couple of things you didn’t mention, so I opted for a modified procedure. Some notes:

1. You can get to the add-on manager from within IE. Pick Tools, Internet Options, Programs, Add-On Manager
2. In order to do much of anything on Vista, you need to be in administrator mode. In order to test whether you’ve fixed your IE problems, you need to run (No Add-Ons) quite often. Since I tend to try out a lot of stuff this will be a recurring problem for me. So I went to Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and right-clicked Internet Explorer (No Add-Ons), and placed a shortcut in my Quick Launch bar. Then I right-clicked the new shortcut and set it to run in Administrator mode, along with changing the Icon so I wouldn’t confuse it with regular IE.
3. Now I went into an iterative procedure to find my problem. From my Administrator No Add-On Internet Explorer (ANAOIE) I disabled lots of add-ons, then exited and attempted regular IE. If it ran, I enabled one or more of the add-ons I just disabled; if not, I ran ANOIE again, and disabled some more. This procedure will identify a problem; it is always in one of the add-ons you just re-enabled. It’s entirely possible that more than one of your add-ons is giving trouble, especially if you’re like me and download stuff all the time to try it out. Use the same procedure to test any that you think you need.

I eventually found that I was having a problem with Google Toolbar. I imagine that’s been fixed, ’cause it’s too useful and too common for it to be stopping lots of people from running IE. So I’m going to look for a new version and see what’s what. Then I’ll go back and see if there’s anythine elsg I disabled that I think I want back.

Thanks again!

Chuck