How to repair IE7

philstanbridge · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:03

Ive got a problem with IE7 on my vista desktop. Every so often it will hang, and the only way out is to ctrl/alt/delete and shut the service down. This crashes the program and allows me to restart it. It is doing this every day now, and is very frustrating because I cannot think of a fix. Apart from using a different browser of course, but I hate problems like this and I'd like to resolve it.

There doesn't appear to be any pattern to this - every other website will just cause it to hang. Is there any way I can add/remove or reinstall just the browser part?

yantorsen · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:09

can you not just remove it then download it again?

Dano · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:10

Mines been doing that recently too, keep meaning to fix it but never have gotten around to it.

philstanbridge · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:26

yantorsen said:
can you not just remove it then download it again?

How? There is no uninstall.

VoG · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:35

Dano said:
Mines been doing that recently too, keep meaning to fix it but never have gotten around to it.

+1

presumed it was just me, nice to see im not the only one.

yantorsen · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:39

philstanbridge said:
How? There is no uninstall.

It's listed with windows updates, so you have to uninstall it as an update.

Edit ignore that im getting confused with IE8.
the only way to get rid of it and start again would be to remove it from the installation with vlite or something, but it probably wouldn't be that stable.

londonbairn · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:44

Not on Vista, it's installed by default on Vista

philstanbridge · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:46

lol bit of a bugger eh? Firefox here we come :rolleyes:

MarcLister · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:48

Is there not a Repair function on the Vista DVD?

yantorsen · 11 Jan 2009 at 13:48

philstanbridge said:
lol bit of a bugger eh? Firefox here we come

Be sure to download the Glasser add on, to make it look nice with vista.

philstanbridge · 11 Jan 2009 at 14:01

MarcLister said:
Is there not a Repair function on the Vista DVD?

Is there? You mean a repair for Vista generally? Just fired up my Home Premium dvd and there is nothing showing 'repair'.

eXor · 11 Jan 2009 at 14:18

philstanbridge said:
Ive got a problem with IE7

philstanbridge said:
Firefox here we come

You seem to have reached the logical conclusion without any intervention on our part.

MarcLister · 11 Jan 2009 at 14:24

philstanbridge said:
Is there? You mean a repair for Vista generally? Just fired up my Home Premium dvd and there is nothing showing 'repair'.

Not sure. But that is what I mean.

What options do you see? I swear there was one with XP.

yantorsen · 11 Jan 2009 at 14:27

Yep, the Vista DVD does have a repair function, I've had to use it before.

philstanbridge · 11 Jan 2009 at 14:40

Maybe it's only activated when you boot from it? I've just tried it within Vista obviously. But is this necessary? I don't want to wipe out all my service packs and patches etc etc. Generally I find things like this don't work.

yantorsen · 11 Jan 2009 at 14:54

Yeah you need to boot from it. It worked for me, I can't remember what my problem was though.

Dougsnake · 11 Jan 2009 at 15:05

Good post i have the exact same problems for a few weeks with ie7/x32 vista buisness i carnt seem to fathom a pattern to it at all because ill go back to same page where it last locked up and it loads fine.
not a massive problem but hell its annoying when your reading a big forum post...

Converge · 11 Jan 2009 at 19:01

I've completely reformatted my pc and installed everything again, it still does it. As i stated in my similar thread. Apparently it's to do with the addon's IE7 uses. But seems daft that there isn't a fix yet...

philstanbridge · 11 Jan 2009 at 20:28

Why doesn't it effect everyone though? As far as I am aware I haven't installed any addons, or third party addons so I can't understand this.
I guess the only thing could be Flash maybe, or some javascript routine possibly?

Dano · 11 Jan 2009 at 20:37

philstanbridge said:
Why doesn't it effect everyone though? As far as I am aware I haven't installed any addons, or third party addons so I can't understand this.
I guess the only thing could be Flash maybe, or some javascript routine possibly?

Don't think so, mine just randomly locks up, start a new instance and it will happily load the page it locked up on.