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Old 12-23-2007   #2 (permalink)
Mark R. Cusumano


 
 

Re: What a shame, Vista gets the blame



"PNutts" <pnutterfield@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks for posting your experience. The last Flash update solved a lot of
> folk's issues with IE7.
>
> "Mark R. Cusumano" wrote:
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>> For months I have been living with the problem of IE7 suddenly hanging
>> and
>> taking 50 to 100% CPU time with the only solution to kill the process. I
>> upgraded all the activeX controls and even disabled them (seems disabled
>> activeX controls still seem to run if not uninstalled). Anyway I was
>> tooling around the Adobe website and was checking on the health of my
>> flash
>> player plug-in (which I always secretly suspected was the culprit) and
>> noticed I was running an old version which was strange since I just
>> installed the latest upgrade 2 weeks ago. Ok, no biggie, I'll download
>> it
>> again. Hmmm, STILL the old version. No error during the install so you
>> have NO CLUE the install didn't work. Completely uninstalled Flash
>> Player
>> using THEIR uninstaller, which seems to be the ONLY way to uninstall it,
>> the
>> reinstalled and Hey! The latest version is now installed and what a
>> surprise. I can't get IE7 to crash or hang at all.
>>
>> --
>> Mark R. Cusumano
>> Skype Name: mark.cusumano
>> Web: http://The-Padded-Cell.spaces.live.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
Yeah it was getting to the point that loading Task Manager before IE7 was
becoming a habit :-)

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Mark R. Cusumano
Skype Name: mark.cusumano
Web: http://The-Padded-Cell.spaces.live.com



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