[Eliza26]

Hi,

My computer's using Windows XP. I downloaded and installed about 79 updates from Windows Automatic Update (due to a previous problem someone just helped me fix where my computer was running extremely slowly from a corrupted AdAware file)

Now when I double click on internet explorer it will go to my home page, hotmail, but if I type a web page into the address bar, it won't go to anywhere. It instead opens up another web page that won't go anywhere and internet explorer then becomes unresponsive and I have to end the program. It flicks from the new page to the already open page strangely.

When I installed Windows Service Pack 3 last night the problem seemed to go away, but now I've restarted my computer again, the problem is back.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[awatson]

Does it do this on another browser like Firefox? It could also be some sort of malware or something - do you have an toolbars, download accelerators, etc installed?

[experttech]

You can optimize the browser and re-register the dll files from steps on this page http://computers-quickfixes.blogspot.com/

Run antispyware to scan computer for spyware.

[Eliza26]

Thanks awatson and Experttech,

Unfortunately, neither of those things seemed to fix the problem. However, when I installed Internet Explorer 7, that seemed to fix things. So for now at least, the problem appears to be fixed.

Thanks very much for both your help!