I have this problem also, except I am saving the page as html. Once it hangs,
the only way to get out is to kill IE from the task manager.

"MadAlexMS" wrote:

> Re-post as a Suggestion vice Question ...
>
> Background: I frequently save copies of Web pages for off-line reference,
> and usually save as a .mht file so I don't clutter up my folders with
> sub-folders. This
> worked fine for me in IE6 (except for occasional complaints that it couldn't
> save the page), but has been a frequent problem for me in IE7. If I save
> more than one page during a session, I have found that I can now expect the
> following behavior sometime after the second page (the problem is
> intermiitent, but frequent, it happened so many times on
> http://docwiki.gumstix.org/ last night that I considered violence against the
> IE7 executable files ;):
>
> - Open an IE7 session
> - Start saving Web pages using Page - Save As... *.mht
> - Keep saving pages until the following occurs ...
> - The Save Webpage dialog hangs:
> - The progress bar stays at 0%
> - The Cancel and window close (X) buttons have no effect
> - You can't get back to IE7 (the Save Webpage dialog is modal)
> - Open Task Manager (to kill IE7 after the hang), and the
> dialog closes - almost as if the dialog "knows"
> you're about to kill IE7 ;)
> - After the first save hangs, can't save again in that IE7 session
> - Exit IE7, re-open IE7, start over again with crossed fingers
>
> This has now become veeeeeeeeeery annoying, as I often have several tabs
> open while browsing and saving, and killing IE7 then re-opening the Web
> site(s) and page(s) I was working with is wasting a lot of my time.
>
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