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Titanic1985 Champion Author South Carolina Posts:6,267 Points:358,360 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Nov 19, 2011 11:30:07 AM Ignore Titanic1985 Report Abuse I have observed on three different computers (all three different brands) an anomoly with IE9. Right in the middle of some online activity, Windows 7 Home Premium (64 Bit) will display a message saying IE9 has stopped working. The message further states to close it. When you reopen it, IE9 works fine and then days or weeks later it will repeat this message. I have not been able to find an answer to this problem which, if you are in the middle of something (it has happened to me while on Gas Buddy) causes different results depending on where you are and what you are doing. If you are surfing the Web, it just makes you stop, close IE9 and relaunch it to return to the website. In the case of Gas Buddy, if you are in the middle of a post, and you log back in, it actually enters the data and you have to do a mad rush with the 5 minute time frame to complete what you are doing. I've not experienced this happen on IE8 running Windows 7 Home Premium. Have any of you experience this and, if so, what is the fix?

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I have observed on three different computers (all three different brands) an anomoly with IE9. Right in the middle of some online activity, Windows 7 Home Premium (64 Bit) will display a message saying IE9 has stopped working. The message further states to close it. When you reopen it, IE9 works fine and then days or weeks later it will repeat this message. I have not been able to find an answer to this problem which, if you are in the middle of something (it has happened to me while on Gas Buddy) causes different results depending on where you are and what you are doing. If you are surfing the Web, it just makes you stop, close IE9 and relaunch it to return to the website. In the case of Gas Buddy, if you are in the middle of a post, and you log back in, it actually enters the data and you have to do a mad rush with the 5 minute time frame to complete what you are doing. I've not experienced this happen on IE8 running Windows 7 Home Premium. Have any of you experience this and, if so, what is the fix?

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scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:81,330 Points:3,254,445 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Jul 6, 2012 5:30:08 AM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse We have hhgregg, too. They moved in the Circuit City stores. Not worth visiting.
Titanic1985 Champion Author South Carolina Posts:6,267 Points:358,360 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Jul 6, 2012 5:24:40 AM Ignore Titanic1985 Report Abuse Good Morning scoutmaster. I share your sentiments regarding Best Buy. We do have H.H.Gregg, but they are really too far away and the prices aren't really that good.
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:81,330 Points:3,254,445 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Jul 6, 2012 3:17:42 AM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse I wish we had something beside Best Buy!
Titanic1985 Champion Author South Carolina Posts:6,267 Points:358,360 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Jul 5, 2012 9:36:19 PM Ignore Titanic1985 Report Abuse Hello MEB. I initially felt badly about incorrectly stating my RAM amounts as I strive for accuracy. I appreciate your second post and you compliment. It shows understanding and class on your part. I do appreciate your allergies being a severe handicap. You're in Atlanta so you appreciate the pollen in the spring and the high humidity and temperatures in the summer. I do think a great many of us on these GB forums now suffer some ailment or impairment due to our jobs. "Boomers" are getting near retirement, so it is time to relax and let the next generation take over. This Topic site is one where a mere yes/no answer is often insufficient. I wonder where some of our younger GBs have gone. I'm presently thinking of starxpilot. He couldn't get enough information. I sent him an email and he is now working two jobs just to keep up with life. I have mentined this before to other GBs, but I do wish we had a Fry's and a Costco, but . . . Thanks again for your post -- it meant a great deal.
Titanic1985 Champion Author South Carolina Posts:6,267 Points:358,360 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Jul 5, 2012 7:02:14 PM Ignore Titanic1985 Report Abuse Hi Herbie. I remember when Microsoft came out with MS Office and it was 85 MB and I wondered why the program was so large. We made a "UNIX PC" called a 3B1 with a 10 MB hard drive. The Operating System took up 39% of the available hard drive space. The developers decided to go with a 20 MB drive and found their enclosure was too restrictive for the newer & physically larger drive, so we had to tear down the machine and replace the top cover which was a part of the monitor. Yes, we made some errors in our day too. :-) .
herbiepopnecker Champion Author British Columbia Posts:13,606 Points:2,507,305 Joined:Sep 2005	Message Posted: Jul 5, 2012 6:39:51 PM Ignore herbiepopnecker Report Abuse I had one of those $1200 20Meg hard drives and I remember thinking how I'd never fill it up! Now I just tossed out a bunch of recovered 40 Gig drives as none wants them!
MEB Champion Author Atlanta Posts:7,105 Points:1,089,415 Joined:Sep 2003	Message Posted: Jul 5, 2012 4:54:50 PM Ignore MEB Report Abuse Titanic Your nice guy. I read several things in here from you.Great at times. I have severe allergies myself.Stated in 1958 when i was 5. BAD tests in 1971.Worked hard outside close to 30 years. I stoped working nearly 10 years ago.I work outside sometimes. I understand you being inside. Take care MarkB
Titanic1985 Champion Author South Carolina Posts:6,267 Points:358,360 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Jul 5, 2012 1:40:31 PM Ignore Titanic1985 Report Abuse Hello MEB. You're right. The error was in my post. When I ordered the HPs, they came with 6 GB (a special offer). I had HP reduce that to 4 GB with one blank memory slot (they wanted $80 for 4 GB and I bought it elsewhere for $19.99). The brand was Kingston and the speed was 1333. The total memory in each HP is 8 GB. They work well with the 4GB Samsung supplied by HP. I normally don't like to mix brands, but one machine was ordered two weeks before the other and they are not in the same location. Back in my working days, one MB of RAM (not GB) was $1,000, so our 16 MB board cost $16,000.00. Wow! A 20 MB Hard Drive was $1,200.00! Thanks for catching my posting error. Take care :-) . [Edited by: Titanic1985 at 7/5/2012 4:46:08 PM EST]
MEB Champion Author Atlanta Posts:7,105 Points:1,089,415 Joined:Sep 2003	Message Posted: Jul 5, 2012 10:39:13 AM Ignore MEB Report Abuse Titanic 4gb seems to be the standard right now on memory.You Have 1gb on your machines.Remember when ram gets cheap you'll see more for the buck on new machines.Fry's here in atlanta this past week had a 17.3" Dell i5 core 8gb mem 1tb hd for 650. Also a 15.6" Fujitsu i3 core 4gb mem 500gb HD for 350. I'm starting to trac 16 gb prices over there from Cosair-Kingston-Patriot Droping down to 79.99 this week last week 84.99. That's Patriot.Next to the 16 gb ad 8 gb(1x8) for 37.Rebate though on that one. My Toshiba 3-23-12 laptop has 4gb memory.Starting to see more 6's offered in the deals. Mark
Titanic1985 Champion Author South Carolina Posts:6,267 Points:358,360 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Jul 4, 2012 8:14:47 AM Ignore Titanic1985 Report Abuse Hello Tazz57. This "problem" as mentioned eight months ago involved three computers (two different brands and completely different hardware). It appears that the problem was corrected by Microsoft updates and/or Java as all computers are now functioning well. Regarding hardware resources, "your computer not fast enough to run it?", I have two new HP All-In-Ones. My personal machine has an Intel i3 running 3.3 GHz, 1 GB of memory and a 1 TB Hard Drive. The second HP is an AMD processor running 2.6 GHz, 1 GB of memory and a 500 MB hard drive. The third machine belongs to someone else and I don't have the hardware data on it. All three machines no longer have the problem since the MS and Java updates were installed. Of interest, cheezeman was reporting this same issue on IE8. Thank you for your concern :-) . By the way, I don't think you meant to say you had 8 MB of memory. These problems have been resolved. [Edited by: Titanic1985 at 7/4/2012 11:15:43 AM EST]
Tazz57 Rookie Author Houston Posts:62 Points:71,185 Joined:Jan 2008	Message Posted: Jul 3, 2012 3:46:38 PM Ignore Tazz57 Report Abuse I run IE 9 on our 2012 laptop with 8mb memory and a 2.4 and a i5 chip i don't use it much at all i prefer Firefox and it's my default browser but still somethings just wont run on anything but IE... so your problem i would say is on your computer possible not fast enough to run it ?
herbiepopnecker Champion Author British Columbia Posts:13,606 Points:2,507,305 Joined:Sep 2005	Message Posted: Jun 12, 2012 7:36:33 PM Ignore herbiepopnecker Report Abuse The web page that serves as our town portal renders perfectly. As long as you're not using IE6, IE7 or IE8. Like how hard is it to show a Joomla site you MSoft laggards? It's been around for years and took until IE9 until Internet Exploder was compliant enough to display it properly.
Titanic1985 Champion Author South Carolina Posts:6,267 Points:358,360 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Jun 12, 2012 8:10:41 AM Ignore Titanic1985 Report Abuse Hello Rajah. Yes, I'm an IE user, but also have Firefox. These HTML standards as well as others (I just received another update notice for Adobe Flash this morning) goes on eternally. My military credit union doesn't accept some browsers on the market and I use that site daily. I posted on my Windows 8 Topic that IE will be version 10, but I haven't read that it will function on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit. I do know MS will not go beyond IE 8 on Windows XP as they have announced that already.
Rajah Champion Author Illinois Posts:7,565 Points:2,306,565 Joined:Jul 2005	Message Posted: Jun 12, 2012 7:07:02 AM Ignore Rajah Report Abuse People are still using IE? Who knew? I only use it to check a web page I'm editing to see how bad it butchers it through it's non compliance with the published html standards. Chrome, FF, Opera.
Titanic1985 Champion Author South Carolina Posts:6,267 Points:358,360 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Jun 11, 2012 4:55:51 AM Ignore Titanic1985 Report Abuse Good Morning Camp. No need to reload IE as the problem has been resolved for over two months. I did reach CheeseMan via whiteboard and he has reviewed this Topic and Hemond's post. For me, this was not a single case problem. I observed it on two of my own machines and one belonging to someone else, all running Windows 7 Home Premium and IE 9 with all the MS updates. Once again, Hemond, thank you :-) .
CampKohler Champion Author Sacramento Posts:9,463 Points:1,563,165 Joined:May 2007	Message Posted: Jun 11, 2012 12:41:32 AM Ignore CampKohler Report Abuse Can you reload IE?
W707 Champion Author Pennsylvania Posts:1,453 Points:399,965 Joined:Sep 2008	Message Posted: Jun 11, 2012 12:12:00 AM Ignore W707 Report Abuse interesting advice
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:81,330 Points:3,254,445 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Jun 10, 2012 5:51:33 PM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse Are you using IE9 for 64 bit Windows 7?
Titanic1985 Champion Author South Carolina Posts:6,267 Points:358,360 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Jun 10, 2012 2:33:06 PM Ignore Titanic1985 Report Abuse 64 Bit Windows 7 Home Premium scoutmaster.
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:81,330 Points:3,254,445 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Jun 10, 2012 1:54:45 PM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse Are you running 32 or 64 bit Windows 7?
Titanic1985 Champion Author South Carolina Posts:6,267 Points:358,360 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Jun 10, 2012 10:20:25 AM Ignore Titanic1985 Report Abuse Sorry, double post. :-( . [Edited by: Titanic1985 at 6/10/2012 1:22:29 PM EST]
Titanic1985 Champion Author South Carolina Posts:6,267 Points:358,360 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Jun 10, 2012 8:34:50 AM Ignore Titanic1985 Report Abuse Hello Hemond. Thank you for the Java information. I have reloaded the latest version and used a program, Reimage, to replace corruped files. I haven't experienced the problem for some time, but I didn't know for sure what fixed it. Now that you've identified the root cause, I will update the other two machines which are standby machines. I noticed CheeseMan had this same problem back in November on IE 8 (I didn't have a problem with that release). I just sent a whiteboard for him to revisit this Topic. Again, Hemond, thank you. I appreciate it :-) .
Hemond Champion Author Providence Posts:8,190 Points:133,625 Joined:Oct 2006	Message Posted: Jun 10, 2012 6:44:23 AM Ignore Hemond Report Abuse Sounds like your basic browser crash. Are you using the updated version of Java? I just checked, the latest version is 6-31. If you have 6-24 you will get browser crashes with IE9 with Win7. Also, is Compatibility Mode disabled? Also, check to see if you have multiple versions of Java installed. An extremely common problem.(I was guilty of this) Also, study the event viewer to see what is getting flagged at the instant the crash occurs.
jwalkerh Champion Author Louisiana Posts:6,135 Points:1,369,130 Joined:Oct 2008	Message Posted: Jun 10, 2012 12:25:04 AM Ignore jwalkerh Report Abuse I think Windows 7 Professional works better with Internet Explorer 9. I dont's seem to have as many problems with it not respondings as I do with Windows 7 Home Premium.
jwalkerh Champion Author Louisiana Posts:6,135 Points:1,369,130 Joined:Oct 2008	Message Posted: May 26, 2012 11:51:20 AM Ignore jwalkerh Report Abuse I am having very frequent problems with IE9 on a daily basis, using Google Chrome now...
herbiepopnecker Champion Author British Columbia Posts:13,606 Points:2,507,305 Joined:Sep 2005	Message Posted: Nov 20, 2011 5:19:02 PM Ignore herbiepopnecker Report Abuse All software will act up once in a while. But we have dozens of systems at work and have avoided using IE for many years. All of us. The only thing it ever gets used for is some really stupid gov't sites that insist you use it. Firefox has been the default browser on all our computers for at least 5 years, kept up to date and has given hardly any problems. The systems in the cafe have IE, Firefox (default), Opera, Chrome and Safari to choose from. 90% of the users insist on using IE, the worst of the lot.
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:81,330 Points:3,254,445 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Nov 20, 2011 1:58:01 PM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse I'm using Windows 7 (64 bit) and I have no problems with IE9. I don't use it much but when I do, no issues!
Titanic1985 Champion Author South Carolina Posts:6,267 Points:358,360 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Nov 20, 2011 6:45:17 AM Ignore Titanic1985 Report Abuse Good Morning. Yes, CheeseMan, thanks for confirming that you also are experiencing this problem. I had thought of including this with the other Topic of what do you think of IE 9, but decided maybe someone else has seen it and come up with a fix. Yes, it is a bit annonying, nothing major, but it should work properly You do have me wondering if it is an IE8 and/or an IE9 problem. It sounds like it could be a Windows 7 Home Premium issue. Good Morning oaklman. You have captured in your link the exact problem I've experienced. Thank you. Maybe someone has a fix or maybe Microsoft is working on it. This is the issue brought up in other topics, putting Operating Systems and software products out too fast without complete testing. In both of my cases it involves AMD processors, but different ones, and Windows Home Premium 64 Bit. Microsoft is supposed to document these types of issues and provide fixes. You and I have seen that they have not come up with a solution and with their development attention to Windows 8, I'm not sure they are actively pursuing it. Good Morning Herbie. I know what you are saying, but that is not a true solution. My background mandates (e.g. expects) something that is sold to work and if it doesn't, it should be fixed. I have used IE forever, tried Firefox (had a great deal of problems with it) and may load Chrome on the system as a secondary browser just in case IE goes out to lunch. I will be following this Topic to see if others are experiencing it and if they have found a solution. My contention is that computers are a tool to make life easier. It should not, as Bill Gates has said, be a constant series of problems which cause you to find fixes for. Yes, I know this isn't the real world thinking. [Edited by: Titanic1985 at 11/20/2011 9:47:22 AM EST]
CheeseMan Champion Author Raleigh Posts:10,740 Points:1,775,000 Joined:Mar 2005	Message Posted: Nov 19, 2011 11:59:53 PM Ignore CheeseMan Report Abuse Titanic..... I also experience this but with IE8 and you say you've not had a problem with IE8. What gives??? Am running Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit. It's somewhat annoying but nothing large in the scheme of things. [Edited by: CheeseMan at 11/20/2011 3:01:18 AM EST]
herbiepopnecker Champion Author British Columbia Posts:13,606 Points:2,507,305 Joined:Sep 2005	Message Posted: Nov 19, 2011 5:56:20 PM Ignore herbiepopnecker Report Abuse Simple solution. Don't use it.
aoklman Champion Author Texas Posts:2,812 Points:405,025 Joined:May 2011	Message Posted: Nov 19, 2011 5:42:19 PM Ignore aoklman Report Abuse I have had at least a couple of anomalies with IE9 including the one you describe although my OS is Vista. The other weird thing it does is flashback to a previous web page/site (even to one that was already closed). Example of error box. It never does this mid-session, but regularly when I close IE9. [Edited by: aoklman at 11/19/2011 8:44:39 PM EST]