can't click on links in IE

[D16Civic]

Help. It's my mother in laws laptop. I can open IE but that's as far as it goes. It opens to google, which is set as her homepage, and i can type in a search, but when it pulls the results I can't open the pages, and it won't let me close the search results page after it opens.

Any ideas?

 

[reikoshea]

does pressing the space bar or enter when the link is 'highlighted' (dotted box) allow the link to load?

 

[D16Civic]

no sir. if i type a web address it works fine. It's only if I do an internet search via google/comcast/etc that the links don't click, and at that point you also can't close the browser window, only minimize it.

 

[phyregod]

reinstall IE

 

[Briansol]

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you probably have some malware on it.

 

[phyregod]

Google chrome is much faster than firefox. I've been using it alot lately. Worth a look, anyway.

 

[Briansol]

Google already knows enough about me... they don't need to know my browsing habbits.
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[phyregod]

Meh, I surf porn, hondaswap, and car crap. No one cares.

 

[D16Civic]

thanks guys.

I've tried to talk her into using chrome/firefox in the past so maybe this will help her along.

Some of you probably know how mother-in-laws can be......

 

[reikoshea]

yeah, thats why you just do it and change the icon to be the icon for IE. she'll never know.

 

[|Chaz|]

IE sucks. If she really wants to browse the internet, she'll use Firefox.