What to do when IE 7 starts to hang or gets stuck!

LyteByte was facing a problem with IE 7 where it was hanging a lot and was getting stuck and didn’t allow our Mr. Byte to do any browsing. I’m sure that many of you must have faced a similar situation. Although, Mr. Byte was able to solve the problem and found out that it was the incompatible software (not compatible with Windows Vista) which came with HP desktop machine which was causing the problem.

Mr. Byte suggests that we should not install the software on Windows Vista untill and unless it is compatible with Windows Vista. It may be the case that the software may work in Vista but it may cause other softwares to function improperly.

Apart from that, if you get stuck in such a situation where IE stops responding then you may try these steps and try to make it work :

1. Open Control Panel.
2. Open Internet Options.
3. Go to Advanced Tab.
4. Untick the box which says Enable Third-Party browser extensions.
5. Click OK and then Open Internet Explorer.

Most likely that should fix up the problem but in case you do face the problem then you may try and reset IE and see if that works for you or not (Unfortunately, resetting IE 7 didn’t work for Mr. Byte because it was the incompatible software which was causing the problem).

1. Follow the above given instructions till Step 3.
2. Click on the Reset button at the bottom.
3. Restart IE.

So here are few things which you can try in case the Internet Explorer stops responding, or stops opening up or in case it starts to hang.