IE7 crashing virtually everywhere

[sidewinder]

I think smartboard was a red herring. It happens on the majority of student machines too. I just plucked smartboard sw out of the air because it was the only thing that had changed recently

[craiglay]

Just an update...

 

Some of my machines that were crashing on flash sites were still crashing loading websites (still IE6 and IE7) Run the Adobe uninstaller and re-installed Flash9 but it was still happening.

 

The solution is to manually delete all traces of flash and re-install the latest. Do a search for swflash.ocx, flash.ocx, etc and delete them. Make sure u empty the recycle bin too as they will still be found. Then re-install and it should work.

 

NB, lots of programs like smartboard install flash without telling you and that can cause problems

[ICT_GUY]

I have noticed this a lot at home and at work.

 

I have almost completely given up on IE and now use firefox almost exclusively.

[Lithium]

Just an update...

 

Some of my machines that were crashing on flash sites were still crashing loading websites (still IE6 and IE7) Run the Adobe uninstaller and re-installed Flash9 but it was still happening.

 

The solution is to manually delete all traces of flash and re-install the latest. Do a search for swflash.ocx, flash.ocx, etc and delete them. Make sure u empty the recycle bin too as they will still be found. Then re-install and it should work.

 

NB, lots of programs like smartboard install flash without telling you and that can cause problems

 

Perhaps this explains why a computer can have at least 4 ARP entries for Flash Player 9

 

I can only think of 2 locations though... Group Policy and Adobe Master Collection.