Oct162012

Why does Explorer freeze my laptop?

Edum asks:

In Explorer, I enter for example “YouTube” and it may or may not appear. If YouTube doesn’t appear, a message will say: YouTube not responding. If YouTube does appear, my screen goes blank when I select a video.

I then try again in another tab, which doesn’t work. In any case, everything “freezes” leading me to think that my laptop is malfunctioning. This past weekend Explorer has been shutting down and restarting on my laptop. My Norton antivirus indicates that my laptop is working fine. What’s wrong?


Browser: Chrome 22
System: Windows 7
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Jack Cola

October 16, 2012

What are the specs of your laptop?

Have you upgraded your flash player, or joined the HTML5 Beta on YouTube? http://www.youtube.com/html5

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Manuel Guillermo López Buenfil

October 17, 2012

To check if Internet Explorer is the problem, I recommend installing a different browser to check if it behaves in the same way. I recommend Chrome because it is a fast browser. If the problem goes away, then IE was the problem. If it doesn’t, the your problem is somewhere else.
In that case, if this problem is recent, then it is likely that another program is using a lot of resources, leaving IE hanged waiting for resources. If the problem has always been present, then your computer probably needs a hardware upgrade.

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Adrian Rea

October 17, 2012

I get the same on mine with many sites that it is not responding the finally works it out.
consider
Google Chrome
More RAM
clear your browser cache
ccleaner

Also if shutting down check your running temps with speedfan

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ha14

October 17, 2012

try this microsoft fix it
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/games/en-us

Uninstall adobe flash player and shockwave player, reboot and reinstall again.

uninstall video driver, reboot and let windows to reinstall new driver

clean windows with comodo system utilities
http://www.comodo.com/home/support-maintenance/system-utilities.php

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Harry Barnes

October 17, 2012

try using a different browser like google chrome. internet explorer sucks. It has loads of bugs, looks ugly, isn’t easy to use, and is terribly slow. that will be the problem

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Jim Chambers

October 21, 2012

Update to IE9 after clearing your cache and history.

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Priya Agarwal

October 21, 2012

check the Task manager for programs that are affecting your system performance

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Siddhant Chaurasia

October 22, 2012

try using another browser like chrome or firefox

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Adam Campbell

November 4, 2012

OK, I had (almost) the same problem which resulted in blue screens etc. Anyway the problem was that I did not have the right driver for my video card. This may be the case if you recently installed a new OS etc.

Make sure that you have the correct drivers…

Oh, and get a mac

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Gianna Marie Lanete

November 14, 2012

maybe because of its plug ins intalled and the specs of ur laptop.

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Dustin Thompson

December 4, 2012

Try running IE with no add-ons, you may have some type of add-on running behind IE that causing your issue.

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Shahbaz Amin

December 5, 2012

Have you tried clearing all browser cache or otherwise completely uninstlaling and then reinstalling it?