IE freezes when trying to browse to a file

I'm running IE 6.0 sp1 on XP home sp1 and have recently encountered a problem. When going to a webpage with a form and clicking the browse button on the form to select a file to upload I get the normal display of a partition on my hard drive.

However if I try to change partitions to select a file elsewhere on my drive IE never gets there and I have to kill the app.

This is not an issue with Firefox 1.0, so I suspect it's not my app. Which is under development on my office network and not accessible to the public.

Have very recently gotten rid of a nasty bot from my workstation and wonder if this could be related. Is it possible for me to foa try to uninstall/reinstall IE and see if that fixes it?

FWIW windows explorer is not having this sort of problem at all.

Marty

 

Thanks Pete, I can't do this until I replace my defunct cdrw... so much for Dell's bottom of the line desktop 'quality'.

Anyway turns out it works since rebooting; sorry I should've tried that first before even posting.

A possibly related problem I get is that Eudora will freeze after I click a link on an email. Which also stops happening after a reboot.

HijackThis is currently showing me nothing of concern, and I very recently did a clean os reinstall (before my cdrw totally went on me).

Marty