Morning. Since yesterday (possibly earlier, I don't run IE all that often), IE9 32 bit on my Win 7 64 bit laptop has stopped working.
I click the icon, get a brief loading cursor ... and nothing happens. Nothing appears in task manager, resource monitor doesn't show anything in the brief time it's 'loading'. However, the 64 bit version of IE9 seems to work fine. The no addons shortcut for IE9 also doesn't do anything.
For some reason my system restore had been turned off :huh: (turned it back on, and created a restore point) ... so I went the route of uninstalling Silverlight (the last update I got), no change.
Then I uninstalled IE9 itself - on restart, I got an error about ie4unit.exe or similar missing, and IE8 didn't reappear properly. But no matter, I didn't want IE8 anyway - so I reinstalled IE9.
As a result, I'm back where I started. I don't get any errors, the rest of my machine seems to be fine. Basically ... I'm stuck. Not stuck enough that I want to reinstall Windows - like I said, I don't really use IE9, but enough that I'm concerned and want to get it working again. I am fully up to date, and I don't know of anything else unusual on my laptop.
Any thoughts or help is much appreciated!
Updates: I can reach Internet Options fine from control panel without issue. Nothing seems odd there. I've reset the IE settings via it, no change. I have managed to see iexplore.exe in the task manager now, but it's so brief that it often just doesn't show up.
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Morning. Since yesterday (possibly earlier, I don't run IE all that often), IE9 32 bit on my Win 7 64 bit laptop has stopped working.
I click the icon, get a brief loading cursor ... and nothing happens. Nothing appears in task manager, resource monitor doesn't show anything in the brief time it's 'loading'. However, the 64 bit version of IE9 seems to work fine. The no addons shortcut for IE9 also doesn't do anything.
For some reason my system restore had been turned off :huh: (turned it back on, and created a restore point) ... so I went the route of uninstalling Silverlight (the last update I got), no change.
Then I uninstalled IE9 itself - on restart, I got an error about ie4unit.exe or similar missing, and IE8 didn't reappear properly. But no matter, I didn't want IE8 anyway - so I reinstalled IE9.
As a result, I'm back where I started. I don't get any errors, the rest of my machine seems to be fine. Basically ... I'm stuck. Not stuck enough that I want to reinstall Windows - like I said, I don't really use IE9, but enough that I'm concerned and want to get it working again. I am fully up to date, and I don't know of anything else unusual on my laptop.
Any thoughts or help is much appreciated!
Updates: I can reach Internet Options fine from control panel without issue. Nothing seems odd there. I've reset the IE settings via it, no change. I have managed to see iexplore.exe in the task manager now, but it's so brief that it often just doesn't show up.
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