We have Windows 7 Professional, 32-bit.
We came back from vacation, installed the waiting Windows Updates, then noticed we can start IE 9 and bring up the homepage, but when we attempt to go any further, it just “stalls.”
When we are on the homepage, Google, we can mouse-over the ‘tabs’ at the top and the URLs show up on the status bar. We click on “News” and the page there also loads, but at this point mousing-over the links does not show up anything on the status bar, and clicking on the link results in nothing other than a message saying “Internet Explorer stopped responding” after 2-3 minutes.
I did a bunch of debugging with DNS (ping, nslookup, tracert) and it isn’t the Internet connection. (I don’t get a Page Not Found either …)
Through the Control Panel -> Internet Options, I finally cleared all the history, cache, and even reset the Internet Explorer settings on the Advanced page. Still nothing helped.
On an off-change, I went to the Security tab, unchecked Enable Protected Mode, and everything is fine now.
The other Windows 7 PCs in the house got all the same Windows Updates, and they all work with Protected Mode enabled.
Any ideas how I get this particular desktop back to normal?
Thanks!
Mike
