How To Fix “Internet Explorer Has Stopped Working” Appcrash?

Internet Explorer Has Stopped Working – Explained with Solutions

Tutorial is for – Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10

Internet explorer has stopped working is an appcrash error and its only occurs when your Windows (OS) or Internet Explorer might in bit of problem and whenever you’ve opened your Internet explorer this error will appear and crashes your browser.

Normally this error will shows you some sort of troubleshooting options like this:

“> Check online for a solution and close/restart the problem”

“> Close/Restart the problem”

Or maybe sometimes it will only show you the “Close program” message.

And whatever you’ve choose it will end up like nothing or maybe displaying that Internet explorer appcrash Message again on your computer’s screen.




Actually there are so many reasons why this appcrash showed up on your screen and I can’t blame on any particular reason ‘cos it can be a “.dll” file or may be some toolbar which conflict with your browser and of course there are more that those two reasons.

I’ve written all the possible tips, tricks and solution by categorize the reasons in this article so, you can understand it easily and I’ll suggest you to try that one by one until you’ve gonna fix your problem.

#Let’s Fix – “Internet Explorer Has Stopped Working” Error    

A thing which I loved about this error is that, this appcrash will normally showing you the file name which is creating this problem by just clicking on “View problem details” and it will expand the message and you’ll able to see every single detail about that appcrash and that file name also.

Sometimes this feature isn’t available or maybe your error only shows you options like“close the program” or “restart the program”. In that case you should skip some of paragraphs below about this file name finding topic and continue right after that, below the#Solution hashtag.

After clicking on that option you’ll find the listing named “Fault Module Name:” under some of problem signatures and on the right side you’ll definitely gonna see the name of that file which is creating the problem.

As you can see on the given picture above in my example error which was came because of that “.dll” file and after searching that file name on Google it does let me know something related about that file like, who’s program or software is responsible for that “.dll” which does making some trouble on my computer.

After putting that file name on Google I’ve found that it’s an important windows file which is corrupted by wherever the reason is. I do solved by problem by just doing some windows or iexplore repairing stuffs which I’ll all listed down here in this tutorial.

Beside that it’s possible your error will shows you the different file names which is like“aswWebRepIE.dll” or some xyz.dll etc. and it’s also possible that dll won’t be your Computer’s windows or Internet explorer internal file. If that’s the conditions with you then you’ll need do some research about it and fix that program or software which is creating this problem. I suggest removing the add-on or toolbar can helps you to quickly fix this problem or otherwise continue.

Let’s continue below if you find your dll file is Windows based or maybe if you’ve cant able to find/search about that file:

#Solution

As I said it’s a multi reasoned problem and I can’t rely on one thing, so that’s why I made this tutorial more organized to let things know better & more understandable.

So, let’s start with the different situation what users are suffering:

1. Internet explorer crash while watching or playing media files like picture, songs and video.
2. Internet explorer crash while opening of browser, it’s like having an error message after while clicking on iexplorer icon.

Both situations having their own reasons as you can see below:

Now i’ve mentioned every possible solutions to solve this problem one by one acording to these both situations and if the solutions of first situation wont works for you then you should go with the other one or if you’ve having a second situation on your side and you’ve also done with the given solutions then you can also try the given solution for the first situation vice versa.

#Crash While Watching Or Playing Media Files

If you having a problem like this then maybe it’s possible some of your windows operating systems drivers or some browsers plugins might need to get update and by updating them you can easily fix this problem.

1. Drivers Problem – Corrupted video drivers can be the main reason for this appcrash in this driver’s problem category and if you do update them, it can make things back to normal. Given link below will help’s you to find your graphic card or motherboard video chip drivers.

>>How To Find And Download Drivers?

2. Plugin Problem – Java, Flash Player and Silverlight is the main plugin which your windows internet explorer can use the most and this appcrash can also cause because of these corrupted installed plugins. You can update them by downloading the latest version of these softwares by the given link below and maybe that will fix your problem.

If the problem still stays then continue with this tutorial:

>>Click To Download JAVA

>>Click To Download Flash Player

>>Click To Download Silverlight

If you’ve still having the problem in this situation after trying every steps given above this paragraph, then maybe you should try to do some other step what I’m listed below in the second situation “Crash While Opening Of Browser”.

#Crash While Opening Of Browser

Sometimes this problem does stick with our Computer’s browser and appears right after when we opens or start up our internet explorer and that type of error can having the multiple reasons for the appcrash came into on your computers screen.

Fixing Internet Explorer Problem

Most of this problem came just because of some corrupted or temporary conflicting files of your windows internet explorer and here are some of settings and tricks you can try to repair your iexplorer.

Just like I said I’m gonna mention all the reasons and solution for this problem. So, now it’s on your computer to get fixed by which one of these:

Fixing Add-Ons – Add-ons are browser extensions which our browser uses to improve your user experience on any particular type of webpage who also contains or providing multimedia or interactive stuffs. Sometimes Add-ons do cause our internet explorer to stop responding and showing this “Internet Explorer Has Stopped Working” error on the computer’s screen.

Disabling them is the only way to fix it and it’s easy to do:

1. Open your window run command by pressing Windows + R key and type “inetcpl.cpl”on it and press enter to open internet properties.

1. Now select the program tab and click on “manage add-ons” buttons to open add-ons manager on the screen and after that you’ll able to see the every installed add-ons on your internet explorer.
2. After that disable every enabled Add-ons one by one, by using disable button on the right bottom side of that window.

Make sure you do select any add-ons on that window or otherwise it will don’t show you that disable button:

After disabling every add-ons of your browser, you’ll need to restart your computer and test it right after when it’s get open.

Sometimes it will fix your problem and if it does works for you then you can try to enable those add-ons one by one until you’ve find the faulty one.

Fixing Hardware Acceleration Setting – In the Advanced tab of internet properties you can see the first setting listed as “[_] use software rendering instead of gpu rendering” under the accelerated graphics. This setting is all about on who do the graphic work for media contained webpage, does CPU handles the graphical load or the GPU.

>>If you’ll tick it, that will make your browser to transfer all graphical work on your computer’s CPU.

>>If you’ll leave it unticked, that will makes your browser to transfer all graphical work on your computer’s GPU.

I’ll suggest you to change that setting opposite whatever it was ticked or un-ticked. I mean tick it if it’s unticked.

Make sure to save that setting by clicking Apply button on the bottom of properties window:

Fixing Security Setting – Due to some changes in your internet explorer’s security setting can cause this problem too and by resting them can fix your pc.

Make sure you do “Enable Protected Mode”:

Or you can “Rest all zones to default level”:

Fixing Internet Explorer – This is the last troubleshooting step in this “Fixing Internet Explorer Problem” category and most the time this will 95% works and if it’s wont, then it’s not yours browser fault its only just a corrupted files of your computer’s windows.

In this step we gonna reset our internet explorer and that will make it back to normal:

So, now go to the advanced tab in the internet properties window and click on reset button to make it happen.

Fixing Windows Problem

Windows got corrupted according to their use and if you’ve recently installed some toolbar or may be infected your computer by some viruses then here are some of tricks which can helps you to fix this “Internet Explorer Has Stopped Working” error.

Removing Toolbar – This will helps your Browser to get fixed if a corrupted toolbar is conflicting.

Open the run command and type “appwiz.cpl” and then press enter.

Now uninstall every listed toolbar what you’ve have in your computer.

Resetting IP – Resetting TCP/IP (Internet Protocol) can also resolve this issue.

Open the command prompt first

On the command prompt, type “netsh int ip reset” and then press Enter.

If it will shows you the responses that ends with “OK!” and a request to restart the computer at the end, that means your TCP/IP is reset successfully.

After that type the “netsh winsock reset” command on prompt and then press Enter.

It will Reset you’re your computer’s Winsock Catalog setting:

Now restart your computer to see the difference.

Virus Scan – Virus can also be a reason for this error so, I’ll suggest you to install a good antivirus in your computer and make a Full System Antivirus Scan.

Updates Remove Fix – if you’ve reentry update your computer or may be your computer updated itself, then it can also be a good reason for the internet explorer browser’s files confliction.

Removing/uninstalling the update can fix this:

So, open the Windows Update setting in your windows control panel and in the left pane, click on View update history.

Now select the recent download updates and uninstall it.

Windows Registry Fix – registry is the main target when a virus starts to corrupt your windows and a single Changed value can cause this appcrash.

You can try to fix your windows registry by a registry cleaner and that will fix your problem.

>>>Download (Registry Cleaner)<<