Internet Explorer Runtime Error!!*

This application has required the runtime to terminate in an unusual way.

Recent calls from clients has triggered in me a sense of deja-vu. There has again been an unusual number of people who were having their IE web browsing session crash, due to a “Runtime Error”.

Error message: Runtime Error!! Program: c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplorer.exe. This application has required the runtime to terminate in an unusual way.

Tip of the day: You can cure this malfunction by knowing that it is caused by a conflict with a (possibly corrupted) installed Add-on. In each and every of my caller’s instance, it was the Google Toolbar – so that’s the place to start your troubleshooting.
[Note: to be fair to the Google toolbar, the corruption probably occurred during an update, and was caused by these people having the Yahoo! toolbar installed also. One or the other, folks.]

[update: there has now been a few instances of this happening with the Ask toolbar.]

The quick-and-dirty solution is to go into Add/Remove Programs and uninstall/re-install the Google toolbar, but the way to be sure – or, if you’re getting this error and don’t have the Google toolbar – is to disable add ons one at a time until the problem goes away.

1) In IE, click on “Tools”, then select “Manage Add-ons”, and then “Enable or Disable Add-ons”, as shown above.

2) A list of installed Add-ons will appear. Start by looking for “Google Toolbar Helper”. Select it, and then click on the “Disable” button.

3) Close, and restart Internet Explorer, and surf normally for a while. If you no longer get crashes and error messages, you’ve found the culprit. An uninstall/re-install is now in order (if you want to keep the toolbar, that is).
If you continue to get crashes, repeat the Steps and disable one more Add-on.. until you find the right one by process of elimination.

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*Orig pub: 01/02/09

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Cool Science

From Daily Mail–
“A student has built a wind turbine from scrap to help people in the developing world.

Max Robson, 22, constructed a prototype using rubbish collected from skips, tips and bins including an old bike frame and wheel bearings, the magneto from a Vespa, a battery from a Ford Fiesta and bits of wood.

It is so simple, he says, it can be built by unskilled workers in less than a day anywhere in the world.”

To read the entire article, click here.

We here at T4E Headquarters like the idea of taking scrapped junk and turning it into useful and productive gizmos and doodads, and so I tip my geek hat to young Mr. Robson, and others of his ilk.

* Thanks to reader Dawn H for pointing this article out to me.

Today’s free download: Avira’s AntiVir continues to grow in popularity, and the latest major release–a Download.com exclusive–shows why this free security program is at the top of the charts. A brilliantly customizable one-click threat killer, baked-in anti-spyware and anti-adware to compliment the antivirus engine, the ability to scan “locked” files, a rebuilt heuristics engine, and infection protections for its own source files are what’s new and notable in AntiVir 9.

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