Frozen+Internet

Fix a Frozen Internet Explorer Using the Power of the Command Line

Occasionally you might find that Internet Explorer freezes, and that you need to restart IE before you can actually get it out of the crashed state. Usually the best way to do this is to open the Task Manager and then kill the iexplore process. However, if you have a lot of open IE windows, you may find that there are lots of iexplore processes in the Task Manager, each of which needs to be killed individually. This can be a time consuming process, and there is always the chance that you will miss one of the processes, meaning that Internet Explorer remains stuck. However, using a quick command line tool you can kill all of the running iexplore processes in one go. Here’s how: 1. Click Start > All Programs > Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator. 2. At the command prompt (Chevron) type taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe and press [Enter]. 3. Once the command completes, all of the processes will be killed and you can restart IE.

Of course, this command doesn’t just apply to Internet Explorer. You can kill any running application by substituting its name for iexplore.exe in step 2.  