The situation has got worse! I can open IE then the following happens.
1. I can open a site as this one. But when I click to open a thread as this one it won't do it.
2. Then I close the page and I get 'the programme is not responding and invites 'End Now.' That closes it.
3. I open IE again and it asks if I want to restore session or go to home page (I have tried both) and I use restore session, which immediately opens the page I tried in 2.
4. Then I try to open a thread and the same thing in 3 happens. That is how I got here BUT to get to this posting page I had to go through it all again.
I hope that this not sounding silly but that is what is happening.
I tried Firefox a few days before this but I have since binned as a possible cause but its no better.
In other words I have to 'open' individually each one of the options - I am not sure what is going to happen to this when I hit the submit button.
Now I can tell you. It went straight in but I tried to edit and it froze on the last page. Back to 1.
I also tried a system restore early this morning but that went OK. And I restarted the computer but I got back here by the above. It is beginning to grate.
PPP