Win 7 Home Premium x 64

Internet Explorer 8 has trouble opening and I cannot reset it as it says to close all programs first but they already are.
I tried disabling addons but there was no change.
Any ideas?

 

System Restore?

 

MSIE8 is being fickle. This a.m. it opened fine and is functioning. I enabled all addons and still ok.
Thank you for the suggestion. It is allowing me to reset it which wil be my next step if this continues.

 

I use both F.F. and MSIE 8 and read at the Microsoft site that they conflict with each other, but I do not know about that..

 

Thank you for the information.

 

I have not had any problems with MSIE 8 for days now but thank you for the trouble shhoting steps and advice which I'm sure will come in handy.

 

Unfortunately, I am still having problems with MSIE 8.
It functions in that when i click on it, it will open. However, the boxes in the upper right are in reverse.A double box produces a large window while a single box produces a small window. It is backwards.
Firefox responds as it should while both explorers, 32 + 64 do not. I opend 32 in safe mode and it worked ok. I ran the windows tool that supposedly anayzes add ons and repairs them.I looked in the addon section and most are disabled while Adobe and Norton are enabled.
Because this is not a crisis, if someone has time, I would appreciate a suggestion.

 

I went to 'manage addons' and there were none there.
Is this because I reset the explorer?
I also do not have Explorer 32 per se, in startup, just the icon. There is Explorer 64 in writing but not Explorer 32.
When I open explorer, it is a half page. I have tried stretching then holding ctrl + shift while I click 'exit' to no avail.
Only the double box will give the full page.

 

I ran an image recovery with Acronis and updated everything.
All seems to run well so far.
I tried a system restore for two dates but got the error message that is was not successful -0xc0000022.
If you remember I received this machine with system restore turned off and then moved the button to restore all. I also moved the slider to obatin room for points.
Thank you for the continued support.

 

I made an error in reporting that all was well as the boxes are still interchanged.
I disabled all addons and the problem persists.
Is functionally ok to keep it this way or does this indicate a problem?

 

Win 7 premium,MSIE 8
>Could you post a screenshot or attach one with the screen of IE and the messed up boxes so I can see whats happening?

>>When I click on the Explorer, the screen opens in a half screen when the box is single and a full screen when there are two boxes. It is the opposite of what it should be. However, in safe mode, the screen stays the same size whether two boxes or one.

Regarding dvds, I have two I made which Dell said to create for a recovery and I have the original o.s cd. If I use the latter I will lose all my programs. Which dvd or cd are you advising me to use for sfc /scannow?

I hope my startup attachment is ok!

 

Here is a screen shot of the large box with a small window.
I have the Norton security Suite ;it is free to Comcast customers.
I ran disk check and a full virus scan and both are ok.
Btw, Firefox hs a problem in that the window stays full whether i click on the large or double box -ithe screen just jumps.
I will try sfc with the os disc.

 

I ran sfc /scannow and it was fine too.

 

I right clicked the icons for both the Explorer and FireFox, selected properties and kept clicking the normal window with the other selections and now the squares are behaving. Thank you for the help and I'll take you up on the start menu items; you mentioned I had an inordinate amount.