I've edited, but never backed up the registery before, and since my wife would kill me if I crashed her machine, how about giving this a try?

Ok, a problem I had was IE 6 was not closing on windows XP. Just happened one day, when you click the X, it wont close, just beeps. Tried uninstalling, and downloading new version.... nothing.

Solution from a different forum, works as such.

Not quite sure that it solve your problem, but I bet that it will. Just be careful because you need to edit the registry. I would strongly recommend backing up your registry before editing it because it is possible to make your computer unusable if you make a mistake. Anyway...to fix the problem you need to delete the following registry entry and then restart you internet explorer.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects

to get there in Run: regedit

good luck,

Invision