IE Crashing (6 (all patches))

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After applying all the patches from MS Update yesterday to my XP MCE machine, running IE6, suddenly all the Desktop and Program menu entries for IE won’t work. I get the “IE has encountered a problem and will close” error. I can still use a link within another program to get to the Internet (that’s how I got here now), but can’t use IE directly. Any idea how I can fix this?

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John
These updates were installed on my XP Home system and resulted in 2 issues.
Occassionaly a page could not be loaded, but a refresh resolved that.
The other problem is with only one (as far as I currently know) web page, http://www.classmates.com.
Whenever I attempt to go beyond the initial page I get a download request for a file instead of the link to page coming up. The web site works fine on another ME system.
I backed off the MS updates with no change. Then I did a system backup to before the updates and still the web page problem did not go away.
I then updated Java, just in case the site changed. The problem was still there.
I hope someone out there will come up with more info, perhaps a solution.

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Have you tried a system restore to before the udpates were applied?

Joe

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>> Have you tried a system restore to before the udpates were applied? <<

Nope. System Restore works so infrequently for me that I rarely bother trying it.

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If you try the system restore and it fails then you could try to uninstall and reinstall IE6 with all the patches. Or bit the bullet and install IE7.

Joe

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