Solved Taskbar Freezes when I start any browser

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  1. chirag64 Bronze Member

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    OK, I've had this problem since last few months.
    I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate and I have a lot of browsers installed on my system (Opera, Firefox, IE9 beta, Safari, Chrome).

    But whenever I start any of these browsers (except Firefox), my taskbar freezes completely. I cannot access anything on the taskbar including the start button. After pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del, I select 'Start Task Manager', but that also freezes. Its as if anything related to explorer.exe freezes. The system only comes back to normal when I close the browser window.



    Suprisingly, Firefox is the only browser which works perfectly without freezing the taskbar. I've Firefox 3.6 as well as Firefox 4.0b6 installed and both work without a problem. Any ideas? [IMG]
    chirag64, Oct 11, 2010
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  2. apemax17 Tech support and Linux user

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    Hello and welcome back chirag64.:)

    I have marked your thread open to attract the attention of one of our tech's. so someone will be with you shortly.
    apemax17, Oct 11, 2010
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  3. chirag64 Bronze Member

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    Hey, thnx a lot...lookin forward to be helped with the issue here :)
    chirag64, Oct 11, 2010
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  5. samuria Network Specialist

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    Try opening the browsers without addon. For IE it should be on the main menu and it should say IE with no addons
    samuria, Oct 11, 2010
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  6. DCiAdmin Administrator & Tech Team Leader

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    If that works for you, Chirag, you might reset IE. That's found going to IE -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced tab -> press the Restore advanced settings and Reset buttons individually
    DCiAdmin, Oct 11, 2010
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    Tried opening IE without addons. Still it freezes the taskbar :(
    chirag64, Oct 11, 2010
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  8. DCiAdmin Administrator & Tech Team Leader

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    Do you have AV software protection wtih current definitions, Chirag64? Do you scan regularly? Any recent indications of malware?
    DCiAdmin, Oct 11, 2010
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  10. chirag64 Bronze Member

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    Its already set to 'Run Selective Startup'
    chirag64, Oct 12, 2010
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    Yes, I currently have Bitdefender Antivirus installed, which is updated. Also, I checked the startup items for any malware infections using Autoruns, but didn't find anything suspicious.
    chirag64, Oct 12, 2010
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  12. samuria Network Specialist

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    If you can download and run hijackthis we can see if there is anything in the startup for you
    samuria, Oct 12, 2010
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  13. chirag64 Bronze Member

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    HijackThis log attached :)

    Attached Files:

    chirag64, Oct 12, 2010
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  14. samuria Network Specialist

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    There are few worring things about the log like lots of files missing and some BHOs I would from a cmd prompt type

    sfc/scannow
    Have you install cd ready. Once you have done that lets check for malware if you can do the prework in my signature our team will look at it for you if only to eliminate it
    samuria, Oct 13, 2010
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  15. chirag64 Bronze Member

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    Done...It said:
    Code:
    C:\Users\User1>sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.
Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example
C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log
    The log file is about 11MBs, should I upload that too?
    chirag64, Oct 15, 2010
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  16. samuria Network Specialist

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    Did it fix anything?
    samuria, Oct 15, 2010
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