W2k hangs up while using explorer 5.5

Random lock-ups are often the hardest problem to troubleshoot. So without further information, it would be hard to nail it down. But I have seen IE in W2K "appear" to lock up the system. Sometimes I could bring up a task list, and sometimes I could not. But after investigating it, I discovered that the system had not actually locked up, but IE was waiting for a response from the proxy server. Now when it happens, I can often just wait a long time and it comes back. Of course, rebooting would stil be faster, but at least I don't lose my work. In other words, I don't know how to get it to stop other than killing the process (which I can only do some of the time)

This is a known issue: W2K with IE5.5.

There is a service pack that you can download for IE 5.5 and for W2K as well:

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

Hope this helps :)

Thanks,

Greetings,

Install Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.

Also, check out this Microsoft site which will update ALL Microsoft products:

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

I might add that IE 5.5 was initially compatible with these Operating System(s): Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98.

Windows 2000 is not one of them. I.E. 6.0 would probably work much better anyway. That's what I'd do.

Regards,

Maxwell