Internet Explorer 10 Won't Open on Windows Server 2012

Question

Seems to have started after installing Windows Update.  You click the IE icon and nothing happens.  Nothing is logged in the event log.
I've tried disabling & re-enabling the feature - no luck.
What else can be done?  

Answer 1

Hi Matt,
Please open a Command Prompt. Change drive and Directory to C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer and enter the command iexplore.exe<CR>.
Can't you see an error message?
If not, do you know how to run the SysInternals 'Process Monitor' Tool 'ProcMon'?
'ProcMon' shows you a lot of important System API calls with Parameters and the results 'success' or 'failed'.
For 32 bit i have a very old tool 'LodPrf32' from Matt Pietrek. Once it was contained in the Windows Platform SDK
'LodPrf32' is much easier to  use than 'ProcMon'. Below you see the output of my version of LodPrf32.
Greetings Marcel
LODPRF32  14:29:49 20.04.2013
C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
Process loaded at: 00D00000
DLL Load: ntdll.dll at address 775A0000
DLL Unload: ntdll.dll at address 00FD0000
DLL Unload: ntdll.dll at address 77210000
DLL Unload: ntdll.dll at address 00FD0000
DLL Unload: ntdll.dll at address 00FD0000
DLL Load: KERNEL32.dll at address 77210000
DLL Load: KERNELBASE.dll at address 76220000
DLL Init: 87248000 ms - KERNELBASE.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\KERNELBASE.dll
DLL Init: 87248001 ms - KERNEL32.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\KERNEL32.DLL
DLL Load: apphelp.dll at address 734B0000
DLL Init: 87248003 ms - apphelp.dll , C:\Windows\system32\apphelp.dll
OutDbgStr 000001: SHIMVIEW: ShimInfo(Complete)
DLL Load: msvcrt.dll at address 77420000
DLL Load: iertutil.dll at address 76F90000
DebugBreak breakpoint hit
DLL Init: 1 ms - msvcrt.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\msvcrt.dll
DLL Init: 1 ms - iertutil.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\iertutil.dll
EXE entry point hit - 2 ms initializing
DLL Load: USER32.dll at address 74C60000
DLL Load: GDI32.dll at address 76AA0000
DLL Init: 82 ms - GDI32.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\GDI32.dll
DLL Init: 83 ms - USER32.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\user32.dll
DLL Load: IMM32.dll at address 76400000
DLL Load: MSCTF.dll at address 76C70000
DLL Init: 118 ms - MSCTF.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\MSCTF.dll
DLL Init: 118 ms - IMM32.dll , C:\Windows\system32\IMM32.DLL
DLL Load: SHCORE.dll at address 74710000
DLL Load: combase.dll at address 76960000
DLL Load: RPCRT4.dll at address 767C0000
DLL Load: SspiCli.dll at address 74BE0000
DLL Load: CRYPTBASE.dll at address 74BD0000
DLL Load: SECHOST.dll at address 773C0000
DLL Load: bcryptPrimitives.dll at address 74B70000
DLL Init: 210 ms - bcryptPrimitives.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\bcryptPrimitives.dll
DLL Init: 215 ms - CRYPTBASE.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\CRYPTBASE.dll
DLL Init: 215 ms - SECHOST.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\sechost.dll
DLL Init: 217 ms - SspiCli.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\SspiCli.dll
DLL Init: 217 ms - RPCRT4.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\RPCRT4.dll
DLL Init: 217 ms - combase.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\combase.dll
DLL Init: 218 ms - SHCORE.dll , C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\shcore.dll
DLL Unload: <unknown> at address 011C0000 , C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
EXIT_PROCESS