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Question Posted Sunday April 3 2005, 6:05 pm

My computer is having some issues with right clicking, and clicking links that create a new internet explorer window to open. When I right click on a link, all the options come up, but when I select "open a new window" nothing pops up, and the original window just freezes and then I get annoyed and close it. Even my msn is acting screwy, it tells me I have however many new emails, but when I click on it, nothing pops up.

I've run a virus scan, have a firewall, and ad aware, so none of that appears to be the issue. Any help?


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DangerNerd answered Wednesday April 6 2005, 7:26 pm:
Hello there,

There is something running on your machine that is causing the windows shared DLLs to freak out. Specifically run32.

Let me suggest that you open task manager and close as many running processes as it will let you. If you stil have the same problem, I suggest you follow the steps on this page at microsoft for re-installing and/or repairing IE:

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...If closing one of the running processes fixes the problem, figure out which one and upgrade/delete it if possible.

DangerNerd.

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The_MoUsY_spell_checker answered Wednesday April 6 2005, 2:47 am:
Sounds like that the Shift button on your keyboard is stuck... Press that a few times and see if it's still like that...

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Igotamonopoly answered Monday April 4 2005, 1:17 am:
AD AWARE IS BAD! it downloads viruses onto your computer. delete it now!!!!!!!!!!! haha that may be the problem!

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Karen answered Sunday April 3 2005, 8:33 pm:
Do you have toolbar that comes with a pop up blocker such as from AIM or Yahoo? If you do have a pop up blocker, then you need to disable it and then windows will pop up when you need them. If you don't have a pop up blocker, then I don't know why this is happening to you if you ran a virus scan.

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southsideboy14 answered Sunday April 3 2005, 7:57 pm:
If you are having bad computer issues I have a website that might be able to give you some real options to help you out, go to askjeeves.com

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russianspy1234 answered Sunday April 3 2005, 7:48 pm:
you most likely have a popup blocker that is being a little too harsh, you need to change the security settings on it to allow popups from certain sites

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heykris10 answered Sunday April 3 2005, 7:09 pm:
Maybe you need a new Mouse

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therocketsummer answered Sunday April 3 2005, 7:02 pm:
I have a Mac (OSX) so I don't know if I can help, but here it goes. My guess is since everything else on your copmuter isn't working properly that your virus scan isn't going to either. You might want to get it checked out by a local computer repair shop

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