Internet Explorer Problem

Factual Questions
1

Yes, yet another thread on IE Woes. Recently, IE has developed an annoying problem. One some website (always the same ones), I get a little pop-up box telling me

Microsoft Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs ro close. blah, blah blah… Please tell Microsoft… blah, blah… We have created an error report… blah, blah [send error report] [don’t send]

No matter what I click from there, I get punted to my home page.

This is getting serious. I can’t get my Penny-Arcade cartoons and I might just perish from lack of sarcastic humor.
This is an older pIII 950 with 512k mem - should be sufficiant
I’m running Win98-SE with IE 6.0.2800.1106
I run AdAware and Spybot
I keep Windows updated
I have Norton, but haven’t run it this week (I’ll correct that shortly)
I tend to have good web surfing habits, so I rarely catch things

Any hints or clues as to what this is. If it helps, I can get the exact text of the message. I can reproduce the problem by going to certain websites (Like PA’s comic. Not the front page, the actual comic)

2

Just throwing out ideas…

If it’s a page that uses Flash, etc., try uninstalling and reinstalling the relevant plugins.

Do these pages cause you a problem with another browser?

Did you do anything to the setup recently that could be the trigger for these problems?

3

The only thing I’ve done recently was to load BattleField 1942, and my gf loaded The Sims (and all eighty gazillion expansions). I’ve done nothing to IE directly.

I didn’t think that the Penny Arcade cartoon used Flash, but what the hell would I know. I’m downloading a huge mod for BF 1942 right now (2.5 hrs to go). When that’s done, I’ll try your suggestion of uninstalling/reinstalling Flash and what not. Maybe even go for the whole shebang and reload IE itself. Although I don’t remember that being very fun.

Any more suggestions out there?

4

Penny Arcade does have flash animations for the banner graphic. I think uninstalling and reinstalling flash may be the ticket.

To test out another browser, give Firefox a try:

5

Okay, I’m feeling kinda dumb here. I’d like to uninstall/reinstall Flash. But how on earth do I do that. I don’t see it when I bring up ‘Add/Remove Programs’. I can’t find a folder with an uninstall program.

How do I get at this little devil?

6

Well, the whole flash thing is moot now. My inept screwing around with stuff has made the whole system unstable. Since I wanted to install a second harddrive to stick my gf’s Sim Crap on, I’ll just format and start over. Much easier than uninstalling everything and junking the registry up.

Thanks for all the replys.

7

Okay. My PC was back up and happy. Then I made the mistake of loading flash again. Now I’m back to the same old crap.

I’ll be damned if I reload the PC again. How do I uninstall Macromedia Flash ver7 ? I does not show up under Add/Remove Programs. Macromedia Shockwave does, but not Flash. Odd.