Jack, It wouldn't hurt to try the possible fix under the Resolution section at the link below. Many times registering the referenced dll files corrects the problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281679/EN-US/
Tufenuf
I have XP, 1024 RAM, & IE 6.0.
Within the past week, whenever I click an underlined link - the browser freezes. I have run 3 different ad-aware programs, scanned the disk, defragged, ran antivirus - nothing works.
Any ideas?
Jack

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