IE problems? A quick fix

I’ve had a few problems running Internet Explorer recently (I still use it as most of the people looking at my websites use it).  It would crash for no reason or pages would stop working but there wouldn’t be one thing that I know would cause it.

So I did a quick search and found this link:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949220

Now there is a link on this page to Microsoft’s (fairly) new “Fix it” service.  Look for this logo:

Clicking on this (on the page linked to above, not here) will open a nifty download that runs various checks on IE and will fix any problems it finds.  Considering the alternative is 5 lengthy processes to go through manually, this is a great idea and one Microsoft is starting to roll out for all it’s software.

So if you’re having IE problems, I can thoroughly recommend the “Fix it” route, I’ve not had a crash since.

Note: Incidentally, the problem wasn’t with IE.  The Spybot add-in I had installed didn’t like something so now I know what caused the problem, I’ve installed the update!