Skype add-on disabled to prevent IE crashes

Skype hampered me already once in the past, but now they did it again ...

From time to time I was experiencing hanging (not responding) problems with Internet Explorer 7 on my Vista pc and I could not always reproduce this. First I decided to run Internet Explorer without add-ons and that seemed to work fine (go to Start > Programs > Accessoires > System Tools). No crashes anymore!



So, there must have been a problem with one of the add-ons of Internet Explorer. I disabled all loaded add-ons in IE7 (Tools > Manage add-ons) and figured out by trial-and-error (enable one by one again) which one caused the problem. The culprit was the add-on of Skype (v3.6.0.216) : Skype add-on (mastermind).


Disabling the add-on was an option, but I also tried to Upgrade/Update Skype and indeed that solved my problem too. No more IE crashes anymore with Skype v.3.6.0.244 ...