HP Add-ons causing problems

A sideways answer of sorts. I can't help you with your IE problem, because I frankly don't trust IE in the least. After the nearly daily security issues that plagued IE6 for 5-6 years, many of which involved total system compromise without ANY user interaction, I refuse to even touch the thing if I can help it. IE7 and IE8 might be better, but they still have a lot to prove. And just when you start to think maybe things have improved, it comes out the latest nasty threat to face IE is something Microsoft has sat on for around a year without bothering to patch. Only AFTER it started being actively exploited do they decide to get off their duff and do something about it.

So for many reasons, but primarily security, you'd be well advised to just dump IE entirely and switch to something else. Some of the major alternatives include Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome. Each one is free, though they each also have their own little quirks. So try each of them, keep the one or ones that you like, dump the rest. Save IE only for those sites that absolutely will not work with anything else, and the content you're after can only be obtained from that specific site. And in those rare cases, be sure to ALWAYS be on your guard. Even trusted sites can be hacked into, and a malicious payload be quietly inserted into the site code without the maintainers knowing it's anything but business as usual.

Thank you for the help you might be able to do. I am going to go to the printer & see JUST what problems I might have, ( can't remember). But my computer says it is HP ADDONS. Would it be safe to delete all add ons ? Thank you again Julie

Go to tools->manage add-ons and disable or enable add-ons as necessary. If this does not work then check the target on your IE shortcut. Right click your IE shortcut, select Properties and in the Target section make sure C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe is entered.

Cheers,
Feran
IE Outreach