IE Quirkiness

My 2-year old GW 700X desktop with WinXP Pro is exhibiting
odd behavior with IE6. It doesn't download all the images on a page.
Example: www.nissandriven.com, none of the images show (so it
coule be a java problem?). I've reset the Privacy and Security tabs
to Default. "Show Pictures" is checked under "Advanced", as is
every other relevant option. Also, when I try to access pages that
don't download completely, then Outlook Express won't send or
receive mail. Rebooting doesn't help. Resetting to a restore point
from a day or two ago gets everything working again...until I open IE.
Then, even Netscape 4.8 (my browser of choice) can't open any
pages either. When IE is acting up, some pages, like www.cnn.com,
load images just fine. I'm running 5 computers on an SMC Barricade
wireless router. The 700X connects to the router via a network cable.
All of my other systems access the internet with no problem (using
Charter 1.5 mbps broadband). IE has SP1 installed, as well as
all of the critical updates since then. Does this sound like an IE
problem or something else?

Thanks much!
Scott

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:18:34 -0500, Scott wrote:

Does this sound like an IE problem or something else?

Scott, first thing to try before taking this to another level is to
goto Control Panel and choose "Add/Remove Programs" and click on
"Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1" and then choose the middle option
(Repair Internet Explorer) and see if that fixes the problem.

Lets try that first.....

Regards,
Thomas

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

T.R.,

OK, under Add/Remove Programs, it shows "Windows XP Service
Pack 1". When I click remove, a dialogue box comes up warning
that "certain programs may not run properly..."

Does the "Repair Internet Explorer" option come up after that?

I don't want to actually remove SP1.

Thanks!
Scott

"T.R." wrote:

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:18:34 -0500, Scott wrote:

Does this sound like an IE problem or something else?

Scott, first thing to try before taking this to another level is to
goto Control Panel and choose "Add/Remove Programs" and click on
"Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1" and then choose the middle option
(Repair Internet Explorer) and see if that fixes the problem.

Lets try that first.....

Regards,
Thomas

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Scott wrote:

OK, under Add/Remove Programs, it shows "Windows XP Service
Pack 1". When I click remove, a dialogue box comes up warning
that "certain programs may not run properly..."

Does the "Repair Internet Explorer" option come up after that?

I don't want to actually remove SP1.

No, don't do that. See this page to run it manually:
http://www.xtra.co.nz/help/0,,4130-1292662,00.html

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:04:17 -0500, Scott wrote:

Does the "Repair Internet Explorer" option come up after that?

My bust Scott! That's what you get when you try to write a NG post
and talk to someone in the office at the same time. I totally ignored
the fact that you are running XP and some XP setups don't list IE in
their uninstall utility which means that the repair does have to be
run manually like Fishface told you under (Advanced Users) on the url
given. Sorry about that....

Also, you can get IE6 repair information at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...7/z02ie6rk.asp


Regards,
Thomas

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

T.R.,

I checked the repair info you cited. None of it seemed to apply to my
particular case. I tried the fix from the above post:

"rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE5Maintenance "C:Program
FilesInternet ExplorerSetupSETUP.EXE" /g "C:WINDOWSIE
Uninstall Log.Txt"

....but it said it couldn't find setupwbw.dll or the module. However, this
fix is for Win95-2000...don't know if it applies.

I do know that on some sites, IE6 displays a red Privacy button on the
lower right. Clicking on it shows that site is "Blocked"....even though
Privacy is set to allow all cookies, etc.

Also, I did a Restore to a week ago, just before I installed 5 Microsoft
updates: XP KB823182, Windows Update V4, XP KB826939,
XP KB825119, XP KB828035...but no change.

I'd sure like to try IE repair, if there were some way to bring up the
option box.

Also, is there a reason why Outlook Express won't download mail after
IE hangs up on some pages?

Thanks again!
Scott

T.R." wrote:

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:04:17 -0500, Scott wrote:

Does the "Repair Internet Explorer" option come up after that?

My bust Scott! That's what you get when you try to write a NG post
and talk to someone in the office at the same time. I totally ignored
the fact that you are running XP and some XP setups don't list IE in
their uninstall utility which means that the repair does have to be
run manually like Fishface told you under (Advanced Users) on the url
given. Sorry about that....

Also, you can get IE6 repair information at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...7/z02ie6rk.asp

Regards,
Thomas

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:12:12 -0500, Scott wrote:

I'd sure like to try IE repair, if there were some way to bring up the
option box.

Okay, three more sites for you to check out:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q318378
http://www.theeldergeek.com/repair_r...e_and_oe_6.htm
http://www.theeldergeek.com/repair_ie6.htm

Look at all three before you decide to try one.

Regards,
Thomas

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

T.R.

OK, I tried sfc /scannow, and it didn't find anything wrong.

Next, I tried to repair IE by right-clicking "install" on the file ie.inf.
It's asking for some files on the WinXP SP1 CD. So I ordered
the CD from Microsoft, and we'll see if that helps.

If not, the next step will be to reinstall IE6 (after making the
appropriate registry mod).

I'd sure like to avoid reinstalling XP, as I assume that will wipe
out all programs, and the last two years of tweaking will be lost.

Scott



"T.R." wrote:

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:12:12 -0500, Scott wrote:

I'd sure like to try IE repair, if there were some way to bring up the
option box.

Okay, three more sites for you to check out:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q318378
http://www.theeldergeek.com/repair_r...e_and_oe_6.htm
http://www.theeldergeek.com/repair_ie6.htm

Look at all three before you decide to try one.

Regards,
Thomas

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:40:49 -0500, Scott wrote:

I'd sure like to avoid reinstalling XP, as I assume that will wipe
out all programs, and the last two years of tweaking will be lost.

That's why trying to do all the repairs that you can first. Looking
at that web site you said the graphics don't show in:
www.nissandriven.com
I see that the top "interactive" image is a Macromedia Flash
Interactive which needs the latest Macromedia Flash Player plugin to
run along with JavaScript activated. The images below are just Plain
Jane JPG files.

As far as reinstalling XP..... Never have done an install of XP using
the option to keep old programs and configurations so don't know if it
actually does keep your old configurations and programs unmolested
like doing an install of 98se using the option to keep current
configurations and programs unmolested did.

If this does finally boil down to having to go that far, I would just
go on and do a complete fresh restoration so as to get a clean system
to start out on. You do have a Restoration CD and OS CD for this
computer don't you?

Regards,
Thomas

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
lying in hospitals dying of nothing.