Can't open "secondary" links...?

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Kenneth

Howdy,

This is a very strange one...

I run Win 2000 SP4 and IE V 6.0.2800.1106.

Here is what happens when I launch my browser:

It has the Google toolbar. If I enter something there, and
click to search, the familiar Google list of pages found
appears, but, none of the links can be activated.

If I click on any link, the link name appears at the bottom
of the screen without the word "opening" and IE just sits
there.

Next, I went to http://www.yahoo.com. The Yahoo site opened,
but nothing further happens when I click on any visible
link.

I am completely baffled.

Might you have any thoughts about this?
 
Howdy,

This is a very strange one...

I run Win 2000 SP4 and IE V 6.0.2800.1106.

Here is what happens when I launch my browser:

It has the Google toolbar. If I enter something there, and
click to search, the familiar Google list of pages found
appears, but, none of the links can be activated.

If I click on any link, the link name appears at the bottom
of the screen without the word "opening" and IE just sits
there.

Next, I went to http://www.yahoo.com. The Yahoo site opened,
but nothing further happens when I click on any visible
link.

I am completely baffled.

Might you have any thoughts about this?
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Hi again,

I neglected to mention that I get the same result on that
machine if I right click any visible link and choose "Open"
that is nothing further happens.

I will also add (and I don't know if this is related) that
this machine has other odd network-related problems:

Right now if I go to Network | Computers Near Me | all are
displayed properly, but I can currently browse only one of
six on our lan. When I attempt to browse others, I get the
error SystemName is not accessible. The network path was not
found.

This is a one-way problem. These other machines can browse
"in" but this one cannot browse "out" on our lan.

Thanks for any help on this,
 
Once again, DNS Hijack is the most llikely thing. Run spybot, MS
anti-spyware, Adaware. Then run winsock fixer.

....kurt
 
Once again, DNS Hijack is the most llikely thing. Run spybot, MS
anti-spyware, Adaware. Then run winsock fixer.

...kurt
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Hi Kurt,

I am giving your suggestions a try right now, and will
report back with success (I hope.)

Thanks,
 
Hi Kurt,

I am giving your suggestions a try right now, and will
report back with success (I hope.)

Thanks,
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Hello again,

Well SpyBot and Ad-Aware each found a few things. I removed
'em, ran WinsockFix, and rebooted. Right now, the browsing
is fine, and so I am hopeful.

One odd part of this is that I could always correct the
browsing problems with a re-boot, but then, if I left the
machine running for many hours the browsing problems would
start up again. Weird.

We shall see...

All the best,
 
Hello again,

Well SpyBot and Ad-Aware each found a few things. I removed
'em, ran WinsockFix, and rebooted. Right now, the browsing
is fine, and so I am hopeful.

One odd part of this is that I could always correct the
browsing problems with a re-boot, but then, if I left the
machine running for many hours the browsing problems would
start up again. Weird.

We shall see...

All the best,
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Hello again,

As in the past, when I returned to the system after several
hours, it could not browse...

It can ping successfully, and other systems can browse it,
but it cannot browse out.

Might you have further thoughts about this?

I will also mention that in the NIC's properties under power
management, there are two check boxes:

1: Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby

2: Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power

Long ago, it was suggested to me that #2 could be causing
the problem of the system losing the ability to browse. That
made sense, but that setting was not checked.

Then, recently, a Dell Tech asked that I check #1 so that
the NIC could bring the system out of Standby. That did not
make sense to me because the system was not going into
standby, but I was happy to try it, and I checked box #1.

Soon, as always before, I lost the ability to browse.

I re-booted (because I have found no other way to regain the
ability to browse) and then I thought to review the NIC's
settings. To my surprise, I found both Power Management
checkboxes were UN-checked, even though I had checked #1.

I have repeated that process and am certain that if I check
#1 to "allow the device to bring the computer out of
standby" the check is removed when I re-boot.

I will add finally that I have recently re-installed the NIC
driver.

Might you have any further thoughts?

Sincere thanks,
 
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