so this is my situation...

...when I open internet explorer my computer freezes then when I restart it and I click on my user name to log in and it freezes. over and over again.
the only way then to get into my computer is to go into safe mode, then when I restart from safe mode and try loging in on my user name in normal mode it will work... but then explorer still will freeze it...

-I've used Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to try to remove anything bad, and AVG to look for something that would be attacking me.. but there both clean... at this point I would say to just reinstall windows.. but with this computer I would like to avoid it if at all possible!

any tips or advice would be helpful!!

Have you considered the "system restore" thingy?

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oh yeah... been there... it stopped saving dates and when I click on a date and click next... the last next does not work. at all... it is like the button has been disabled on top of that i cant change the calender back to any month it is just stuck on February with 1 date available.... plus the "last known good configuration" does nothing also... when this stuff happens those two are my first stop.

If I were you, the next thing I would try is to create a NEW user name and see if the problem exists for that profile too. Is this Windows XP?

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Man... you know i tried that too... and it seemed to work better but when it says something like applying user settings or something like that.. it freezes there too... and yes windows XP pro sp3 which is why i don't want to reinstall windows.. I don't have a pro CD

** Its funny too because when i do get loged in Every thing works GREAT but... internet explorer....

I am not sure about this but I think you need the CD to run the Windows XP Recovery Console, which is what I was going to suggest next.

This is Internet Explorer 7? I just looked at my Installed Programs and I see Internet Explorer 7 there. So I must have installed it sometime in the past, somewhere along the way (I use Firefox mostly). If I had installed it once, I suppose I can install it again.

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yeah I'll take a look at that... I to use firefox but there is one site that i need to access that does not work right with firefox

A couple of other things that might be worth checking:

1. Do you have any IE add-ons?

Try to start IE without the add-ons. I don't have IE7 myself, but from what I read, this is simply a right-click of the IE icon, and choose the 'start without addons' option. If this works, without trouble, then one of the addons is the culprit!

2. IE7 does have a built-in reset/repair utility for itself.
These would be the steps:
[I know you said it crashes at step one, but maybe this could be done in safe-mode too? I'm not sure]
After the repair, then it might be necessary to visit update.microsoft.com to re-apply any IE patch(es)/updates.

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Thankiossk Cool!