Windows Update crashes IE6 and IE7

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...and other woes.


OK, this is Windows XP Pro corporate, originally with SP3. I started with IE7. The build dates back to about December last year and has updated (manually) correctly up until the end of last month. Then first of all it simply wouldn't find updates that it should - it would claim there weren't any, whereas another machine with identical set up would find them.

Then, starting about a week ago, any attempt to start Windows Update would result in IE7 crashing - there would be a standard M$ error and once that was acknowledged, IE was gone. The error pointed at urlmon.dll. Sometimes there was no error, just the crash.

This is the ONLY page which does this, and it occurs no matter how I get to it: if I go to the M$ site and then navigate there, the same thing happens.

If I use Firefox and the extensions which allow me to use that to get the Updates, the updates are correctly identified and downloaded, but do not install.


The following do not work:

Uninstalling IE7 to revert to IE6
Re-installing IE7
Uninstalling SP3 and IE7
Re-installing SP3
Reinstalling IE7
Most of the fixes I've found on t'web of situations even close to this.



Next up is a complete re-install of Windows, but as have better things to spend two hours of my life on, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas?

Cheers



M
 
I know you don't care, but here is the latest progress.


Today I have wasted four hours of my life re-installing Windows (a re-install rather than a clean install). It took that long because, as usual, -ing Windows threw up loads of problems. And at the end? Yep, no change at all: Windows Update crashes IE, and if I use Firefox and IE extensions then the downloads don't get installed.


Does anyone wish to suggest anything? Because if I have to do a full clean install of Windows then it will only be after killing a few people.



M
 
Which suggests your browser install is spaffed and/or the activex plugin/permissions.

Or

They're onto you and your cracked install.
 
The re-install should have reloaded IE6 surely? Although when it finished it did seem to have done something odd to the IE shortcut on the desktop: instead of opening IE it just copied the short cut.


But this is the best bet I've heard so far. Want to suggest a fix?


M
 
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