Do you have any memory resident programs that might be interfering with IE? In my case, it was a program called AllChars that was causing IE to fail. When I closed AllChars, IE was no problem. Try...

Thanks for the clearest explanation of this problem I've seen anywhere. Why on Earth do Microsoft not publicise this 'helpful' feature so people are alerted to it as a potential problem?

I have exactly the same problem (thank God for Firefox). Have had this HP vista machine for one week and IE has suddenly stopped working. Also cannot force a system restore. It goes through the...

I would hesitate to suggest anything could be the 'final solution' (for several reasons;)) but nothing in the above thread could actually cause any harm (unless it involves a direct change to the...

If you go back through this thread you will see that this is a common problem with vista unfortunately. Try the suggested fixes, starting with the most straightforward, progressing to the more...

It's official: ericisshort is a god. Tried your suggestion on my wife's new Compaq 5139 and, after a pause of a few minutes, the internet connection settled down for the first time since she bought...