I was playing the free games on Pogo when someone sent me a free 5 day guest pass for Pogo's premium service. I added the pass and then found that I could not play games any longer. The following error kept popping up:
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Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error!
Program: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way.
Please contact the applications support team for more information.
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After searching and finding a great deal of wrong advice, and after hours of installing updates, upgrading my browser, doing this and doing that, I finally found the problem: It was Java.
Uninstall Java from your add/remove programs. The JSE and all Java updates you find. Clear it out, then go and install the newest Java from Sun. That should fix the problem.