opening new tabs causes pc to freeze

[samuel23]

Hi all. Hope someone can help me out here. This sounds a bit complicated but in essence the problem is that I can only open one tab at a time. I recently upgraded to IE7 without any problems, but for the last couple of days I can't open more than one tab. The tab opens ok but it displays 'connecting' and the whole pc just freezes. I can open IE as many times as I want and get multiple sites up but as soon as I try to open a second tab wham! It's more a pain in the neck than anything else. I tried system restore but it didn't help. Any ideas? I ran a full pc scan for visuses but it came up clean.
Thanks in advance to any computer whizz than can help

[computer-tec]

sounds like your internet explorer is corrupted, go to control panel and un-install the internet explorer 7, you might not be able to see this in the add/remove, so you will need to click view updates tick at the top of the window then click remove, once this is done, shut down your machine and then restart then go to microsoft and download a fresh copy and then it should allow you to open up more than one tab.

Hope this helps

[computer-tec]

However if this doesn't work, you might need to reinstall windows, due to a fatal problem with windows explorer itself.

[samuel23]

computer-tec ~ thanks for that . Did as you suggested and hey presto, tabs back and usable again.