Internet Explorer 7 - Frequent Crash and Hangup :(

[morland]

This problem has been occurring rather frequently and is now driving me nuts. Every now and then, and when I have about 5/6 tabs open in IE 7 (7.0.5730.11), IE either crashes or simply hangs.... Is there anything that I can do to permanently fix this problem. I have windows XP SP2 with all the latest updates till now.

Will be very very thankful if you can help me get out of this misery.

[D_block]

this could be a fault because of limited ram . How much ram does your pc have ?

[morland]

I got 2 GB RAM. Just gathered from some either forum that this problem probably is because of some faulty add-in. I have disabled all add-ins and will now monitor the behavior of IE for a few days otherwise will probably switch to Fire Fox.

[cluberti]

Internet Explorer hangs and crashes are almost always caused by something 3rd party added in, just like most any application hang or crash. If running with the -extoff command line parameter doesn't work (iexplore.exe -extoff), then consider getting a dump of it when it's hung and seeing what you've got loaded.

Also, IE could actually be running fine otherwise, but thread 0 in the process could be blocked on something - thread 0 is the UI thread (amongst other things) for most apps, so when thread 0 gets blocked waiting for something else in-process to complete, the app will appear to "hang" (because the UI thread is stuck), but it's still running. I know it's not much help to you now without a dump, but that is very likely what is happening.

[morland]

Thanks cluberti. Will keep your excellent tip in mind; never know when I might end up having to review memory dumps.

Regards.