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PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS POST WITH 'Use Firefox' OR IE IS WORTHLESS KINDA STUFF!
That said I have come across something I've never seen before. I just set up a new user here in the office and created a profile for them on an old machine (windows 2000 with IE 6).
When they try to submit ANY form (even from google), it doesn't do anything, it just sits on the form page, no status bar flicker, no page change...nothing. I have changed all of the IE settings back to default (security, privacy etc). I have run ad-aware. I have checked for toolbars (there are none), and I have run a virus scan. I'm not fresh out of ideas as to what could be causing this problem.
Is it conceivable the source html is being corrupted by an intervening application? (I had dark thoughts once when I discovered what Norton was doing on Win XP one day...) Maybe too obvious that...
That, or after reading your reply restrictions, use Opera
I used to get this problem.... it would hang for up to a minute after clicking the button and then finally submit. It turned out to be a spyware issue. Running Ad-Aware fixed it.
Burrito wrote:browser is already up to date....and assuming I did need to upgrade it, I can't, I can't submit any form data even at windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Use firefox to download the MSIE6 installer, install it, run windows update, voila.