Tuesday, May 07, 2013

IE Error :: IE has stopped working - Fix

This is a very annoying expeience I had recently with IE 9 on Windows 7. And when this error occurs, the messagebox, asking to restart the program or search for a solution, keeps on appearing even if I close the messagebox. When I try to close the messagebox, the page is reloaded and again after some time, the messagebox is shown which asks either to restart the program or search a solution for it on Internet. IE simply becomes unusable as a result.

The followings are the solutions to it. If any one of them does not solve the issue, try all of them.

1. Visit Microsoft Community Site :: Go Here and do as suggested on this Microsoft Community site.

2. Disable Protected Mode :: RUN IE, goto "Tools > Internet Options > Security Tab". Disable the "Enable Protected Mode" checkbox option.

3. Run IE Without Extensions :: From WIn7 start menu, goto "All Programs > Accssories > System Tools > Internet Explorer (No Add-ons)" .. which runs the IE with all the browser extensions disabled. This is done to see if any loaded plugins conflict with IE.

4. Reset IE :: RUN IE, goto goto "Tools > Internet Options > Advanced Tab". At the bottom, there is a "Reset" button, click it to Reset IE.

5. Disable GPU Rendering :: RUN IE, goto goto "Tools > Internet Options > Advanced Tab". Notice the very fist checkbox option saying
   "Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering" ... check it.


I hope the above solutions would definitely help people to get rid of this annoying error on IE.

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