IE6: favorites have stopped scrolling and

[DennisT]

 Have 2-year old PC; working normally, (mostly except this).  Curious thing...favorites operation is in trouble.  Have IE6 (reluctant to do IE7 yet), and when I click on favorites, they come up but will no longer scroll when cursor is moved to bottom of list.  And, often, screen becomes, "stuck."  Then I simutaneously hit ctrl&alt, and favorites disappear.  Then Hit ctrl/alt/delete, it shows IE working, and I click on, "x," and Explorer resumes normally until I click on favorites again whereupon it all starts over once more.

I'm wondering if an MS update has interrupted smooth operation, or?  I do update regularly.

[CBMatt]

Am I to assume you're running XP?

Download CCleaner (install without Yahoo! toolbar) and use it to clean out your temp files.  This may help some.

How long have you been having this problem?
It's only with Favorites?  Search and History work just fine?
Can you think of any changes you made prior to this happening?
You mention Windows Updates...  Did you install a new update before this happened?
What protection do you have?  When was the last time you scanned for viruses?

Run CCleaner and post back with the information asked for, and we'll see what we can do.

Have IE6 (reluctant to do IE7 yet)

I don't blame you.

[Dark Blade]

This didn't happen to me while I had IE6, so it can't just be a bug. Do you have any add-ons to your Internet Explorer? These could affect the Favourites in some way. But does it happen to History as well?

Quote from: DennisT on Today at 03:02:37 AM
Have IE6 (reluctant to do IE7 yet)

I don't blame you.

What's so bad about IE7? I think the Tabs feature is good, because you don't have to open more programs and therefore slow down the CPU.

[DennisT]

Thanks for the tips.  Yes, XP.  I do defrag regularly, disk cleaning, etc. 

And favorites began working fine again.  THEN I discovered my ISP was having trouble...I didn't think operations of favorites depended on quality/speed of ISP connection.  I use AVG and do virus scan about every 10 days along with their daily updates. 

At any rate, it's fine.  But I still don't understand why.

Dennis

[CBMatt]

Thanks for the tips.  Yes, XP.  I do defrag regularly, disk cleaning, etc. 

And favorites began working fine again.  THEN I discovered my ISP was having trouble...I didn't think operations of favorites depended on quality/speed of ISP connection.  I use AVG and do virus scan about every 10 days along with their daily updates. 

At any rate, it's fine.  But I still don't understand why.

I don't understand why either.  Favorites don't depend on your connection, by the way.  Has your ISP problem been resolved?  Perhaps whatever was/is causing trouble with it also somehow caused problems with IE.  Doesn't seem too terribly likely, but it's possible.  It's good that you defrag/clean, but I think you should still download and run CCleaner.  You'll find that it's a very useful tool.

Is AVG your only protection?  What about a firewall?  Although AVG is a very good program, it would be good to have a couple more.  You should have their Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware.  They also have a new Anti-Rootkit, which is good to have handy.  You should also get Ad-Aware.  Doing regular scans with all of these will help with your overall protection.

I'm glad to hear that you're no longer having a problem, but I still suspect that something may be afoot.  Like Dark Blade asked...do you have any extra add-ons/toolbars installed for IE6?

What's so bad about IE7? I think the Tabs feature is good, because you don't have to open more programs and therefore slow down the CPU.

It's still a bit buggy and I hate the look, feel, and...well, just the interface as a whole.  And I can't really say why, but I'm not a fan of tabs.  When I spent a week at my girlfriend's house, I had to use Firefox and I wasn't a happy camper.  I'd rather have my taskbar get a little full (I've never had it effect my performance).  IE7 has better protection (or so I've heard), but that's about all it has going for it.  In my opinion, of course.  If you're happy with it, then kudos.

[Dark Blade]

It's still a bit buggy and I hate the look, feel, and...well, just the interface as a whole.  And I can't really say why, but I'm not a fan of tabs.  When I spent a week at my girlfriend's house, I had to use Firefox and I wasn't a happy camper.  I'd rather have my taskbar get a little full (I've never had it effect my performance).  IE7 has better protection (or so I've heard), but that's about all it has going for it.  In my opinion, of course.  If you're happy with it, then kudos.

Kudos it is then. What is so buggy about it? I admit that it takes a while to get used to, but it's handy if you have multiple tabs so that you can view them all at once.
I didn't like it at the start, so I put in the original toolbar.


And as for DennisT's problem, that's a mystery...
Maybe just the computer was full with internet files (e.g. Temporary Internet Files or something), so it stuffed it up somehow... or maybe not.

[CBMatt]

I'm too lazy to try to compile a list of IE7 bugs, but I'm sure Google will have plenty of references.  When IE7 has been around a bit longer, I might give it another chance.

[patio]

IE7 problems = 131,000,012  hits.
IE7 troubles = 29.043,121 hits.

This changes daily though...and a search engine is not a good barometer of quality.

But it is a good barometer of trouble.

Just thought i'd clarify that.

[Dark Blade]

I'm too lazy to try to compile a list of IE7 bugs

Oh haha. It isn't that bad.

IE7 problems = 131,000,012  hits.
IE7 troubles = 29.043,121 hits.

And by the way, patio, how many hits came up for IE6 then?

(p.s. By writing the above, you just added another hit to the Google list!  )

[CBMatt]

I'm too lazy to try to compile a list of IE7 bugs

Oh haha. It isn't that bad.

Oh, I'm not saying it has that many bugs.  I'm just that lazy.

[Dark Blade]

I'm too lazy to try to compile a list of IE7 bugs

Oh haha. It isn't that bad.

Oh, I'm not saying it has that many bugs.  I'm just that lazy.

Well, according to patio here, it does.

[Dark Blade]

p.s. I hate writing many quotes.

[soybean]

p.s. I hate writing many quotes.

Then, don't "write" them.  Just use the Quote button. 

[Dark Blade]

Then, don't "write" them.  Just use the Quote button. 

Oh yeah...

That is easier.