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.