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i know its always when you us IE, but maybe you browse the net alot.... try a memory test such as memtest86 from a dos cd (www.ultimatebootcd.com) just to rule that out as the cause

does it completely freeze? as in you have to reset the computer to fix it? or does it just crash IE?

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dammit! well it was worth a gamble lol Thanks EDIT: got it today and it was a empty box!! LOL.

2 ideas: 1) you could try it from a VM to rule out the fact that your IP is the problem. 2) try another browser

2 ideas: 1) you could try it from a VM to rule out the fact that your IP is the problem. 2) try another browser

Back in safe mode in device manager click on view -> show hidden devices and make sure nothing else graphics card related is lurking. Other than this i would say that you need to remove the boot start driver from the registry that is causing the problem. I cant remember where they are i think it is HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\services but double check first . Export a backup of it and delete it and see what happens. Good luck

I have been on ebuyer looking at televisions and ordered this http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139970 there is no picture or description but for a couple of quid i thought i would risk it. Anyone know what it might be?

Have you tried clearing out all your temp internet files/cookies ect ?

+1 for process explorer

Proof?

Ah, so a reinstallation of this software may fix the issue then?

In my experience i would say that 65% of my "internet doesnt work" problems are DNS related. Make sure you have with you an IP you can ping on the internet and also a domain (google will do) and see if you get responses on both. If you dont you can look at the other pcs that work and get a DNS server from them that the others can use. Are you comfortable with the ipconfig /command? as Rendrag suggested noting down the configs and most of all any differences is definately the best way to sort this Good luck

Download process explorer and look at explorer.exe's thread stack if you really believe that explorer is causing the problem. That way you may be able to see what is going on. Look for any Dlls called that dont look like system Dll's and maybe you can track it down. Otherwise boot into safe mode and see if it still occurs. EDIT: Thinking about this you may be better off using process monitor and doing a capture and reproducing the problem, maybe explorer is looking for something that doesnt exist and is therefore hanging and crashing? let us know what happens Thanks

Just to let you guys know i helped Zac resolve this, it was the computers hosts file was filled with entries from a "protection" program. All is fine now Thanks

Well it sounds to me like blocking ports 67 and 68 would stop DHCP passing through the FW and stopping 137-139 + 445 only one way would stop shares being browsed. But is this good enough? thats just an idea off the top of my head

You could stick a firewall in between the 2 and block ports 137-139 and 445 one way only. That would allows shares only one way to be enumerated This is gonna get messy though, do they have only one server?

Ah i see. Well since you tried user1 to user2 i believe they may be in a distribution group of some sort on the pop3 box. Do you have a login/control panel you can check this on? Also has this ever happened when receiving from a totally different domain? If not then that would support my theory about distribution groups Also are the pop3 connectors on the mail box direct to each users mailbox? or do u have any addresses taht are distributed to a group? Thanks EDIT: i just re-read what u wrote. Did you as the admin send the users an email from the SBS server? because that would indicate a problem on the SBSbox config for sure, rather than any sort of configuration at the external providers end

What mail client do they use? And can you tell me do they pick up their mail from pop.domain.com and send via mail.domain.com? and is that domain hosted externally? thanks

How do they get their emails? Is it by SMTP or POP3? Can you tell me the domain name? or would you rather not say? and i can try to help

Hmm, thats interesting stuff, wonder why it works second time around and doesnt produce the same error? I wasnt aware Nt 6.0 doesnt allow winlogon hooking so thanks!

I wasnt being sarcastic, but lets not argue. You shouldnt have posted like that. Is there anything else you can tell us about the problem?

Well it was nice of them to share their love of windows at least

Cluberti, can you explain/remember what was happening when you last saw it? Im genuinely interested

Hey! dont talk to Crahak like that, he is very knowledgable and was only trying to help.