Internet Explorer 7 updated and running on Vista just stops running every few minutes. It only happens on ATS and on no other sites? I'm curious if this is happening to anyone else? I should also mention it does not happen on my XP machine only on Vista on my laptop.

Normally I'd write it off to a bug in the OS but it only occurs here.

From my own personal experience, there have been problems with the coding of the flash plugins for IE7 - my system was continually hanging unil I removed everything flash related and reinstalled the absolute brand new drivers - might be worth a try

Having said that - Vista? - you should have learnt from XP that a new MS operating system should never be bought within the first two years of its release

First, dump IE and get firefox.

Second, dump Vista and go back to XP. I will go with Vista maybe Jan next year after many of the issues/bugs are resolved.

I got Vista about 6 months ago and once I got everything up and running I haven't had any problems at all. It freezes no more than XP did. I don't run a whole lot at once other than a bunch of IE tabs at once.

Originally posted by Blaine91555
Internet Explorer 7 updated and running on Vista just stops running every few minutes. It only happens on ATS and on no other sites? I'm curious if this is happening to anyone else? I should also mention it does not happen on my XP machine only on Vista on my laptop.

Normally I'd write it off to a bug in the OS but it only occurs here.

I get the same problem also. Once in the while I get the send and don't send message. It the one you have to tell widows what problem is. But it doesn't do it all the time. Right now,I'm using windows 2000.

It did turn out to be an add-on Flash component. Odd it only happens here and nowhere else. I did find articles about it all over the net but no sollutions, just questions. First they seemed to blame ATI cards until they realized it was also happening on Nvidia cards. My guess - a driver issue common to both. I'm no tech though.

I too prefer Vista because of the software I use. I have lots of 3D modeling and Graphics software and some of them recognize Ready Boost as RAM. I'm getting away with working on 8 to 9 million poly models on a slow laptop in real time!! I'm getting ready to switch to Vista on my main computer just to advantage that.

Thanks for the replies and the good advice. Sorry I was slow getting back.

YES!!! This happens to me. After much searching, I realized it had to do w/ me having Shockwave Flash (Adobe). As soon its enabled, ATS crashes my IE7.

Weird.

[edit on 14-2-2008 by greeneyedleo]

Originally posted by jbondo
First, dump IE and get firefox.

Second, dump Vista and go back to XP. I will go with Vista maybe Jan next year after many of the issues/bugs are resolved.

You have been misled about Vista. The problems are from people using Vista on machines barely capable. I think Microsoft misread the market and thought capable machines would be cheaper when it was released. I buy high end due to my profession and hobbies. I'd imagine Vista is a pain on a low end machine. It would pay to wait as better systems will be cheaper and I hear SR1 is around the corner.

I do need to try Firefox again. The first time I tried it a couple of years ago was because people told me it was more stable. I installed it and had constant issues so I went back to IE which maybe causes two issues a year instead of the constant issues I had with Firefox.

I have been having the same issues after upgrading the flash program a couple of weeks ago.

I end up with the send error report screen then IE shuts down.

I am on IE7 running XP Pro.

I was thinking of going to another browser and saw one called SAFARI by Apple, which claims to be twice as fast as FIREFOX, does anyone have any experience with Safari????

I upgraded my XP system to Vista and dear God was that a nightmare. After a few days of terror I went back to XP.

Then I bought a new system with Vista premium, dual core processor and a couple of gigs of ram and I think I love Vista.

The solution is obvious, go to Firefox. I wouldn't use IE if they were giving it away...oh wait, they are. I wonder why

The Apple.com site made IE crash.

It takes such little things to make me laugh

I'll have to give that beta a try. Thanks for the lead.

wow, It must be a conspiracy, MS must not want this SAFARI deal to make it...

Let me try to see if it works on mine....