After installing VWDE 2008 beta, I started noticing that occasionally IE would fail to make a connection, it would just sit there?the toolbars at the top wouldn?t even appear half the time.
Then, in the last week, I downloaded about a month?s worth of general Microsoft software updates(I?m running XP), and now the problem has become the rule instead of the exception.
IE doesn?t lock up (i.e., require a task manager shutdown), I can close normally. It just doesn?t connect. Sometimes the toolbars don?t appear, other times they do, but in either case IE never connects. I may have to shut it down and restart it 3 ? 4 times before it will finally connect (I have my homepage set to the Google search site).
Once I do have a connection, things work normally.
I was wondering if any of the other VWDE 2008 beta testers had run into something similar. Obviously there?s no proof this problem is related to 2008, but it didn?t begin until I loaded 2008 and that has set me to wondering.
Best regards,
Lar