Internet Explorer trouble

JD Seller

Well-known Member
My IE stopped working in Desktop on my Window 8.1 computer. It will work in the tiles side but not in deck top.

In the desk top side it shows a warning/error message: Internet Explorer has stopped an is looking to fix the problem.

I can't find what version I have or anything else.

I HATE THE TILES BS!!!!! I have no tool bars or anything else to work with.

I have tried the following:

Rebooting the computer.
System restore.
Resetting IE in the advanced setting.

Any ideas other than the JUNK this COMPUTER that I dislike. Dell junk with MS junk program.

I had a old HP desktop computer with XP pro that worked for many a year without any issues. This piece of junk has never worked correctly.
 
I have trouble with it too. Downloaded a browser called Mozilla Firefox. You Tube videos wont work worth a darn on Explorer, so I watch them on Firefox without any trouble. Also if Windows updates Explorer, & it doesn't work till they fix it; then I just use Firefox till fixed. Both can be on the same computer at the same time.
 
As Scotty said, use Firefox, don't ever open up anything else in Explorer. Of course, you have to get something open to download Firefox.

Even Google Chrome is better and safer to use.
 
I use Mozilla Firefox as well, which is a free browser, and probably the most widely used browser.

But I also hate Windows 8 and 8.1 : I downloaded a free software program called Classic Shell that makes Windows 8 look like Windows 7, which I found very helpful.

(http://www.classicshell.net/)

Don't know if that will help with browsing stability, but sure makes using the computer a lot more familiar and, in my mind, a happier experience!
 
Well I don't like it either. Have one of your grandkids come over and get you fixed back up. As others have mentioned Firefox and Chrome are both better alternatives to IE. The problem is that Windows now requires IE to work in the background, so you can not delete IE without big, big problems.

Good Luck, Larry
 
The same thing happened to me this morning on my one PC (Windows 7). Never happened before. Can it be that a Norton update is causing it to crash? My other PC (Windows Vista and no Norton) is OK. Good luck.
 
Internet exploder is well known to get hacked and likely to be your problem. I to use Firefox because of that hacking problem
 
It quit for me as well last night. I am sure it was a Norton update. I hit Google Chrome that my step Son installed, which I hate, and every thing worked. I did three restore sessions this morning and then Norton had a very large update to renew what I had dumped in the restore. I am fine now. I ran the scans before I got it restored and nothing was found.
 
(quoted from post at 08:21:28 02/21/15) The same thing happened to me this morning on my one PC (Windows 7). Never happened before. Can it be that a Norton update is causing it to crash? My other PC (Windows Vista and no Norton) is OK. Good luck.

Norton is not an anti-virus. Norton IS the virus. I got rid of it quite a few years ago.
 
I installed free Classic Shell over windoze 8 and it make it look like windoze 7 and even functions better as it clears some of the garbage out of your way. As to browsers, I have Chrome to be the fastest and lightest weight. Before I retired a couple of months ago we moved 8,000 users at work to Chrome and we had very few, if any, complaints.
 
My explorer quit last night and still off today. I e-mailed a friend computer guru and she told me to try updating windows and it worked. I though it was doing the updates automatically but I probably did something to mess that up
 
I had the same problem last night and early this morning. Called my ISP and left a message. Tried again and it started working. ISP tech called back said that their part of the system was fine and blamed the Microsoft Server. This is a first for me on Internet Explorer. I checked everything I could and whatever it was it went away.
 
I did a bunch of updates and IE still did not work. I was out all day and when I got back on IE tonight it now works. I don't know what the issue was but it seems to be running correctly now.

I lost all the browsing cookies that let me get on sites so I now have to log-in everywhere I go. I am having an issue remembering the logins and passwords. Old age is fun at times.
 
I had the same problem in Windows 7 today. I discovered that the icon on the task bar was corrupt. I could get Internet Explorer to work in the safe mode but not in the regular mode. I could go to "All Programs" and click on Internet Explorer and it would work so I unpined the original icon from the taskbar and repined to the task bar it is working now.
 
JD,

I just got my new lap top back today from the local confuser guru. You can install what they call classic shell into these stinkin' 8.1 junkers that will allow them to work more like windows 7. If you go that route, make sure you have the confuser geek make recovery discs for you. There is a recovery mode in the program, but when the thing goes off into never, never land, you can't always access it. I've been fighting with this 8.1 program for a couple of weeks now also. The system seems to be a lot less flaky since the modification was installed. (so far)
 

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