# Internet Explorer Problems **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 18, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-problems/213814 "2003-11-18T00:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![myles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@myles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myles)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-problems/213814/1 "2003-11-18T00:48:16Z")
Hello! I have a technical question about Internet Explorer, I will go to a random web page, be able to see the contents of said web site for maybe half a second to a second and a half, then there will be a high beep sound, and internet explorer will quickly shut down without giving me any warning. What causes this? How can I stop it? ---
**Author:** ![Toddly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@Toddly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toddly)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-problems/213814/2 "2003-11-18T03:28:21Z")
That is a new one. Have you recently installed anything new? What version of Windows and IE? Are you able to use IE after this event? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-problems/213814/3 "2003-11-18T04:08:40Z")
Is it your computer, does someone not want you to use the computer? This is proabably not the case, but when I didn’t want people to use my computer I had a program that ran VERY quietly in the backround it did things like that. I could set it up so that when a certain program was run it would wait a certain amount of time and then do a certain thing. For example If IE is run wait 5 seconds then close program. Or if Solitare is run wait one minute then shut off computer. Or my personal favorite if Microsoft computer is run wait 10 minuets (cuz I knew they were typing reports) then shut down program. That one really bugged them, just as they were a page or so into typing. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-problems/213814/4 "2003-11-18T04:12:45Z")
Oh and you should probably run AdAware and Spybot and check for virii. I don’t think that’ll fix the problem but it can’t hurt. You may just need to reinstall IE.