that we don't have an Off Topic section to discuss other worldly matters. ie. politics, restaurants, computers, rants, etc.

This may be intentional, but i'm a member of other subject-specific forums and there is always some place to ask a non-subject related question to the group.

For instance, i am having a problem with my new Toshiba laptop and IE vers. 6 and vers. 7. that i've never had before with the past 10 Toshiba's i've owned since 1990.  So, i thought i could post my question here in some OT section hoping someone else here might have a solution or recommendation other than switching to Mac ;-)  ).

The problem i've been having is when i use IE whichever version, the software frequently hangs every couple of minutes and i can only get it unstuck by using ctrl/alt/del. to bring up the task manager which seems to 'free' the page or sometimes i have to alt/tab to swap through different windows to get IE unstuck.

 Now, the computer came with vers. 6.0 and i had the problem from day one and it still continued after i tried upgrading to vers. 7. Then, to top it all off, the Hard Drive crashed and Toshiba replaced the HD and motherboard and when i got the computer back with fresh hardware and a fresh install, i STILL had problems with IE (vers. 6 again from the factory) and 7 when i tried once again to update it. So, i don't think its a corrupt install of the software since i've been through 2 hard drives and its having issues BEFORE I installed any of my personal software. 

Btw, i've now been on hold for customer relations for 1hr. 30 minutes and still no one has picked up... (Tech support just wanted to wipe out my hard drive and do a clean reinstall again. ... i said, no thank you we've already been through that. Idiots!

Stevo