This is another old post I had created for an IE 8 explorer issue.
Came across an irritating bug today while working on a family members computer. Apparently their Internet Explorer 8 has started to either freeze the computer and the screen wouldn’t refresh or it would cause the computer to idle. Talk about annoying! Everything you started to do afterword would end up freezing on the screen. The first thing I thought it could be was the video card. I had asked them if they had noticed any issues and apparently they were getting errors left and right.
Well now it sounds like a windows problem. You never know what people do on their own computer so it’s hard to know exactly what could be causing any issues. After looking the computer over and not finding anything out of the ordinary, I started to worry that I would have to do the dreaded ‘format’. Then I thought of something that should always be tried first when troubleshooting – RESTART! Now I don’t mean restart the computer, but restart the program or whatever you are trying to fix to factory settings.
Walla! Once I restored Internet Explorer to default settings, getting rid of any add-ons installed, the darn thing worked fine!
This is what I did to restore the settings:
- go to tools and the internet options
- go do the advanced tab
- click the rest button. this will prompt you if you ‘really’ want to rest explorer. Just click yes and your ready to roll!
Hope this helps anyone who is having the same problem
