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[bigegg]

No idea what causes it, but a reboot and installing mozilla firefox to use instead of explorer should fix it.

The reboot will. FF wont.

? I'm genuinely interested in the above.
In my experience - six computers in the office, all same-ish spec - the ones which run IE need rebooting to fix this problem about once a month/six weeks. The FF ones, about once every six months

Well, something wrong with your IT manager then, as they should get monthly patch updates, which invariably require a reboot.  Also, I'd like to think that any IT manager knows that FF itself needs updating very regularly, due to suffering all the same security flaws that plagued IE years ago.

That's me 

FF updates automagically.
IE is not set to update.
cos if it works, why mess with it. 

probably why IE doesn't work properly 

Oh dear. I need to find a brick wall, its high time I gave myself another headache...

Please tell me you don't run with Admin privileges. Please. With a cherry on top.

heh heh.
nope, no admins.

[Jusme]

Many thanks for replies....( I think???) I spent half the night on here last night, well, until 4.30 anyway. I don't think I found the solution to the issue, but I do know a bit more about computers now.. I didn't disable any 'add-ons' as when I found them, I had no idea what they were/did, or if I needed/wanted them? At least the issue has not occured again. I did consider downloading FireFox until I read so very many negative reviews from users of the latest program, who incidentally have stated, they are returning to I.E.   

[omega3000]

Yes whats an add on and how do we know if its needed  Just lately my browser has been hacked  Every time i went to search a different browser overtook , took me ages to find the blighter and even then it was hard to get rid of it 

[TheBoy]

Yes whats an add on and how do we know if its needed  Just lately my browser has been hacked  Every time i went to search a different browser overtook , took me ages to find the blighter and even then it was hard to get rid of it 

If you are unsure what plugins to disable, disable them all. Common ones that you may need enabled include:

Adobe Flash - web designers are going away from Flash, due to the number of security flaws in it. Utbue and the like still use it. Vital its updated.
Oracle Java - again, frequent security flaws, but older interactive sites use it. Vital its updated.
Adobe Acrobat - Again keep up to date, but used for pdf files.

Toolbars and the ilk are frequent IE killers. Disable them all.