# IE 11 not working (Win 7)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-11-not-working-win-7/683437>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 11, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-11-not-working-win-7/683437 "2014-03-11T14:58:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-11-not-working-win-7/683437/1 "2014-03-11T14:58:14Z")

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When I put some URLs into IE 11 (32 and 64-bit), it does not go anywhere. I get no error message

My home page is set to a simple, locally-stored HTML document with organized links; a very clean, easy to use bookmarks page.

If I open the browser directly, I can’t seem to load a new URL that I put directly into the address bar. There is no error message; the blue circle thing just stops spinning.

I can visit any page when I use the Firefox add-on ‘IE View’ to open a page from FF (i.e. right-click in FF and select ‘view this page in IE’).

It seems as if I can visit sites that (I think) are in my history (because I opened them from FF in the past). From there, I can follow links and when I open a new tab I can load any page.

Sometimes the problem completely disappears. I think this is after I’ve gotten the browser to go to a page or something, but I haven’t quite been able to discern a pattern.

I think this has to do with an upgrade to IE 11 and new security settings. I usually use Firefox and have lost most familiarity with Explorer, so I may not be correct in when it happened or what I think went awry.

Any thoughts?

Thanks~

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-11-not-working-win-7/683437/2 "2014-03-12T05:48:27Z")

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Have you tried resetting IE?  
[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737)