"Silvabod" <nospam@thank.you> wrote in message
news:ueQrFqnwIHA.4896@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> My brand-new Acer Aspire M5100 pc, 2 gig RAM, pre-installed Vista Home
> Premium had a fatal crash, so a complete disk format/reinstall from the
> hidden disk partition via Acer's "Empowering Technology" was done. I have
> no OS disk.
>
> Then, I uninstalled the bundled demo progs (Office 2007, Norton, etc) and
> did full updates. My AV is AVG 7.5 (not 8, which is documented as giving
> problems).
>
> Despite all this, IE7 continues to be "flaky", has never run correctly.
> (before and after SP1).
>
> I have 2 meg rated cable, yet downloads (from any source, incl MS) are
> continually hanging, to the point where memories of dial-up come to haunt
> me. Tests on PCPitstop report download/upload within a few % of ISP's
> claims (1.83mb down, 186 kb up being the norm). A "definitions" download
> of 1.2mb took nearly 4 minutes, and the 66mb Vista SP1 took half an hour.
>
> Further - IE7 totally crashes when trying to print a web page. Fault
> report says it's with mshtml.dll, but the only MSN site report I found on
> this is one I read for 10 minutes before realising it was for XP and
> earlier, not Vista. IE7's "online search for solution" does nothing
> except delay the restart of itself.
>
> I'm not a novice - my "old" pc is still running the original installation
> of XP with few problems and no crashes (and I date back to the dark ages
> of Win3.1 in maintaining home pc's for the family).
>
> Rather than waste a further 3 days on another new installation, updates,
> drivers etc ... can I just install IE7 as a "clean" install. Is this
> possible? if so, where is the source file?
>
> If not, will Vista allow a non-MS browser to replace it, without creating
> yet more problems?

I would first make sure the issue really is IE. As stated earlier, download
Mozilla, and do the same download tests as you did with IE. If the
downloads are the same as IE, then something else may be causing
the slowness and IE to crash.

You mention a new system that "crashed" and had to be re-imaged,
you could have a hardware problem that is causing the issues.

TDM