Resolved IE has stopped working

If you look in Device Manager > Display Adapters > should show what Graphics are used. (You state that your wife's comp is identical to your one.)
One search showed the guy updated his graphics driver and it fixed his StackHash_0a9e problem. An Auto update from MS may have changed his graphics drivers!

Another search brought up this:Internet Explorer 11 crashing due to Identity Protection add-on | Norton Community
This one suggests running the Rkill and TDSSKiller from within Safe Mode: Internet Explorer has stopped Working.

 

Two display adapters are listed: Intel(R) HD Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M. So it's not using ATI/AMD.

I looked into that one. Two issues: First, it refers to the Norton 360 program, while I use just the Norton Anti-Virus program. Second, it cites the Problem Event Name: BEX, while my error message cites APPCRASH.

broni had me run both of those programs, among several others. The end result was that the laptop was deemed clean of malware.

 

BOBBO, did Broni run them in Safe Mode? This seemed to be the significant feature as I hadn't seen that mentioned before.

 

I was afraid you were going to ask that. The cleaning up process lasted 5 or 6 days, and we did a lot of things. I don't remember for sure if it was done in Safe Mode or not. The odds are, it wasn't. * sigh * I may have to go back into the Malware forum and ask him. The problem was never marked Solved, so the thread is still available.

 

It's a system problem then. Download Download HWiNFO32 - MajorGeeks & run it. Check in Video card section if it shows ATI or AMD. If it shows either, there's a good chance that this error is due to video drivers. You should try to update these drivers.

Ok cross that. I see that while I was typing this message, you have already ruled out ATI/AMD video card.
In any case, it wouldn't hurt to update the NVIDIA & Intel HD drivers.

 

Any chance you are using EMET ?

 

I'd never heard of EMET and had to Google it, then typed it into the desktop's Search box. Nothing showed up.

 

Update your video card drivers. It could be some driver related issue (remote chance).

 

Arie: I did that up to the point of saving the Notebook file. I named it Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00.reg and then I clicked on Save as. But then when I right-clicked on that .reg file, the menu that appeared didn't have Merge as an option. Did I do something incorrectly? I wasn't supposed to do the operation in Safe Mode, was I (I was in Normal Mode)?

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2458544/the-enhanced-mitigation-experience-toolkit
BOBBO, when I Google for something oddball - *EMET* seems to work OK.

 

That was already unchecked. I'm having problems, though, setting up Windows to create user-mode dumps. Using Tskmgr, when I click on Processes, which process should I select?

 

I created the C:\CrashDumps folder in C:\. Then I went through the process again of making the registry addition but got this error message in a Registry Editor pop-up: Cannot import C:\Users\Gayle\Windows Registry Editor Version 5.0.reg. The specified file is not a registry script. You can only import binary registry files from within the registry editor.

Below is the registry addition you sent to me yesterday (my time) and it's what I copied and pasted into the .reg file:

Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\iexplore.exe]
"DumpFolder"=hex(2):43,00,3a,00,5c,00,43,00,72,00,61,00,73,00,68,00,44,00,75,\
00,6d,00,70,00,73,00,00,00

Have I done something incorrectly?

 

Did that and it worked. Downloaded SDK for Windows 7 and got as far as doing the Installation Options step OK. Then an SDK window opened informing me "Installation failed." There's a View Log button, and when I clicked on it an enormous log appeared, at the bottom of which is what I've copied and pasted below. Does it tell you anything?

=== Logging stopped: 6/2/2017 11:39:10 ===
MSI (s) (58:10) [11:39:10:989]: Product: Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 (7.1) -- Removal completed successfully.

MSI (s) (58:10) [11:39:10:989]: Windows Installer removed the product. Product Name: Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 (7.1). Product Version: 7.1.30514. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Removal success or error status: 0.

11:39:00 AM Friday, June 02, 2017: [SDKSetup:Info] Successfully downloaded the file http://download.microsoft.com/downl...etup\WinSDKDebuggingTools_amd64\dbg_amd64.msi to C:\Users\Gayle\AppData\Local\Temp\SDKSetup\WinSDKDebuggingTools\WinSDKDebuggingTools_amd64\dbg_amd64.msi
11:39:00 AM Friday, June 02, 2017: [SDKSetup:Info] File succesfully downloaded - source:http://download.microsoft.com/downl...etup/WinSDKDebuggingTools_amd64/dbg_amd64.msi target:file:///C:/Users/Gayle/AppData/Local/Temp/SDKSetup/WinSDKDebuggingTools/WinSDKDebuggingTools_amd64/dbg_amd64.msi size:17529856
11:39:02 AM Friday, June 02, 2017: SFX C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x64.exe installation started with log file C:\Users\Gayle\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7_a16184ac-9397-4073-9933-d8edda675e42_SFX.log
11:39:04 AM Friday, June 02, 2017: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x64.exe installation failed with return code 5100
11:39:11 AM Friday, June 02, 2017: [SDKSetup:Error] Config_Products_Install: Installation of Product Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 (failed): Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information. Stack: at SDKSetup.Product.ConfigureRelatedSfx() at SDKSetup.Product.ConfigureNewProduct(ManualResetEvent CancelEvent)
11:39:11 AM Friday, June 02, 2017: [SDKSetup:Info] Config_Products_InstallNew: End installation of new product: Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7
11:39:11 AM Friday, June 02, 2017: [SDKSetup:Error] Config_Products_Install: Windows SDK Setup (failed): Installation of the "Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7" product has reported the following error: Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information. Stack: at SDKSetup.Product.ConfigureNewProduct(ManualResetEvent CancelEvent) at SDKSetup.Product.SetupProduct(TaskMode taskMode, ManualResetEvent CancelEvent) at SDKSetup.ProductCollection.SetupProducts(TaskMode taskMode, DownloadManager downloadManager, ManualResetEvent cancelEvent) at SDKSetup.ConfigProducts.DoCurrentTask(TaskMode Task)

 

UPDATE: I did a Google search for SDK error 5100 and found that SDK won't run if Windows C+++2100 is found. I found two versions of it (no idea why I have it) in Programs and uninstalled them. Installed SDK again, successfully this time, and got as far as this step:

Download debugwiz.zip from the link at the bottom of this page, extract the EXE from the ZIP file and run the tool (debugwiz.exe). (Note: When running on Windows Vista / Windows 7, right-click the debugwiz.exe, and choose Run as administrator from the menu)

When I right-clicked on debugwiz.exe, Run as administrator doesn't appear in the drop-down menu. What do I do now?

 

I went through the steps again and this time was able to get a little further. When I ran debugwiz, a window opened and in one box is this message: "debugging key not found- please install the tools (button above)". When I click on that button, it tries to open IE and, of course, IE won't run, probably producing another IE crash, and that's as far as I can get and I'm unable to generate a log. Suggestions?