Hi everyone,
I have been faithful to an eeePC 1000H WinXP for nearly 5 years and it has worked flawlessly - I am on my work computer now because I have no other way to explain this.
I have all three Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox, but I mostly use Chrome.
Since 1 week, whenever I go on some internet pages, the application just shuts down. I tried visiting the same pages on Internet Explorer and Firefox, and the same happens with those two as well.
When this happens?
- whenever I try to click on a link in the Google search results pages.
- youtube or other video websites
- forums
- other websites that seem to have multiple items loading when visiting the page (e.g. if opening the forum page also opens ads, flash banners etc.)
The only thing I can access with all three browsers without crashing is Gmail. That one stays stable.
I would truly appreciate your help on this. Ideally, I don't want to reinstall anything because that would be a pain. I have so much important data collected over 5 years, including browser history...
FYI I am also very cautious about virus/malware (use avast + malwarebytes) and I have rarely had any such problem. I doubt that my current problem might be virus related because I always keep the scanners active and they block any suspicious items
Please help :-(
I have been faithful to an eeePC 1000H WinXP for nearly 5 years and it has worked flawlessly - I am on my work computer now because I have no other way to explain this.
I have all three Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox, but I mostly use Chrome.
Since 1 week, whenever I go on some internet pages, the application just shuts down. I tried visiting the same pages on Internet Explorer and Firefox, and the same happens with those two as well.
When this happens?
- whenever I try to click on a link in the Google search results pages.
- youtube or other video websites
- forums
- other websites that seem to have multiple items loading when visiting the page (e.g. if opening the forum page also opens ads, flash banners etc.)
The only thing I can access with all three browsers without crashing is Gmail. That one stays stable.
I would truly appreciate your help on this. Ideally, I don't want to reinstall anything because that would be a pain. I have so much important data collected over 5 years, including browser history...
FYI I am also very cautious about virus/malware (use avast + malwarebytes) and I have rarely had any such problem. I doubt that my current problem might be virus related because I always keep the scanners active and they block any suspicious items
Please help :-(