Internet Explorer

[dunnitall]

Hi, hopefully someone may be able to help me with this one (in non techno advice please lol).

My PC Win 8.1 with "classic start" Win 7 < that was put on because I was used to Win 7. I have Internet Explorer 11. Antivirus is AVG 13 (which I pay for on renewal).

Having lots of problems with IE. Coming up with "Internet Explorer not responding" so can't do anything with it, I have to close from Task Manager. I read on Google, add-ons may be causing the problem, so I just removed BING and had Google as my default search provider. I didn't know what else to do with any of the other things in that window (techno phobe here) and after I removed Bing it seemed to be ok, working quicker and was behaving correctly. Unfortunately that hasn't lasted and the "not responding" message is making IE virtually unusable so I cannot do anything in it now.

Is it possible someone can explain things a bit more about this please and is it easy to fix for someone like me? Thanks in advance for your help.

[TheChair]

There seems to be quite a bit on the AVG support forum regarding problems with AVG and IE 11.
The ALTERNATIVE suggestions are:

Use a different browser - Chrome
http://tinyurl.com/qzydnrf
or Firefox
http://tinyurl.com/pw7thp3

Add IE to the list of exclusions in AVG:
http://tinyurl.com/zn8uvv8

Ensure that you have the very latest edition of AVG.
http://tinyurl.com/q868er2

[Buenchico]

As TheChair suggests, the most likely cause of 'not responding' problems with browsers is a fault with the updating function of your antivirus software.

If you have to use AVG, I suggest uninstalling it completely, restarting your computer and then reinstalling it. (You might need to use AVG Remover to effectively uninstall AVG: https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en_US&urlName=How-to-uninstall-AVG ).

I used to love AVG but I chose to ditch it precisely because of the type of problems which you're currently experiencing. (Microsoft's own products are at least as bad). I now use Avast instead, without any problems.

IE is, and always has been, a total joke. Get yourself a decent browser! (My own choice is Firefox. Avant is just as good and, if you don't mind Google trying to take over everything you do, Chrome is worth considering).

[TTG]

I second Buenchico on both programs. Firefox and Avast are great. Don't use java and have flash set to 'ask to activate' in Firefox and you are good to go.

[dunnitall]

Hi everyone thank you for your response, will try and sort one way and another IF I can get this to work to answer as it keeps "not responding" !! Hoping it will allow me to post this...