Browser (ie) Won't Let Go Of Computer

Bennie H Mineer · #1 August 11th, 2006, 10:12 PM

I am using IE ver6.. with windowsME. I can sign into the internet and browse without any problems, but when I disconnect from the internet, the browser won't close right away.
If I am online for a short time (10-15 minutes) it will close right away, within a minute or so. If I am online for a long time, say about an hour or so, when I click the X to close the connection, it will disconnect the modem, but the browser remains on my screen for
several minutes, then closes. It seems that the computer is storing something to disk
or cleaning out something before it closes. The longer I am online, the longer it takes
for the browser to close and get back to my desktop.
I was wondering if anyone else has or has had this problem, and what is the fix for it??
It gets to be quite frustrating to sit and wait for the browser to clear the screen, meanwhile I can't use the computer for anything else. I have checked and double checked all the settings and they are correct. Any Ideas??
Thank You.

Rainbow32 · #2 August 12th, 2006, 12:23 AM

I would download the BHODemon and disable all the Browser Help Objects and see if that helps.
If it does then enable each one seperately and see if you can isolate one that's causing this stutter in I.E.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/bhod/

renegade600 · #3 August 12th, 2006, 12:52 AM

you may want to run and post a hijackthis log in the cyber safety forum to make sure there are not any nasties causing the problem,

However, when it happens to me, what I do is alt, ctl, delete, click on the processes tab, find iexplorer and click on end process.

Bennie H Mineer · #4 August 15th, 2006, 12:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by renegade600

you may want to run and post a hijackthis log in the cyber safety forum to make sure there are not any nasties causing the problem,

However, when it happens to me, what I do is alt, ctl, delete, click on the processes tab, find iexplorer and click on end process.

I have tried this several times and it ends up freezing the computer. Then the only way to get my desktop back is to reset the computer, of course
that causes scandisk to run. Another frustrating problem.

Anything else?