Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Hi,
Three days ago a friend who lives 100 metres away told me his Internet Explorer had ceased to function, every time he tried to start it, it put up a box to say that there was a fault and it was closing down, followed by another box saying that this would be reported to Microsoft and any possible repair would be reported back. I had a brief look at his laptop and was unable to help, he thought it had started after a recent update. Two days later, my laptop has the same problem. I have had a good go at this and no joy at all. Any thoughts on this please. My friend is running on Vista, I am on Windows 7 and we both run Avast protection and both systems recently received downloads from Avast and Microsoft and neither of us can get System Restore to restore, says something about a missing file.

Just realised that when my Hotmail(outlook) stopped working, I has also had an update on Windows7.and am also with Avast. It played up all day, but is OK now.fingers crossed

I had the same problem on my laptop running windows 7 and avast. I did a system restore back to about 2 months ago and it sorted it for me.

There does seem to be quite a long history of Avast causing problems with IE it would seem

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=138156.0

Go into control panel and then select internet options and select advanced then click reset at the bottom you should then be ok

Thanks for the replies. Will pursue them in due course if the problem returns. For the present, I read somewhere that Goggle Tool Bar might be the problem and although I have had it for some time now, I have removed it and Internet Explorer is working normally again. Just keeping fingers crossed now. Thanks again.