Help IE6 not navigating away from homepage

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Hi
I am having problems, my ie loads up fine to the homepage and lets me
navigate around it fine but as soon as I try to type in a different address
in the address bar, it tries to open it in a new window and just comes up as
a blank page which is incredibly hard to close something very strange is
happening to it and it could be a totally simple settings solution but as i
am almost computer illiterate i don't know where to look. All settings look
like they are ok but they have been messed with as my computer went in to a
shop as i had lost a database so god knows what they have done to it but I
need my internet back and running properly so please help!!!!!!!
 
Louise said:
Hi
I am having problems, my ie loads up fine to the homepage and lets me
navigate around it fine but as soon as I try to type in a different
address
in the address bar, it tries to open it in a new window and just comes up
as
a blank page which is incredibly hard to close something very strange is
happening to it and it could be a totally simple settings solution but as
i
am almost computer illiterate i don't know where to look. All settings
look
like they are ok but they have been messed with as my computer went in to
a
shop as i had lost a database so god knows what they have done to it but I
need my internet back and running properly so please help!!!!!!!
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I don't think you'll see a fix from Microsoft any time soon. My current
theory, and it's only a theory, is that an anti-virus is causing the problem
by deleting messages as they are saved to the hard drive even though email
scanning is turned off. My problem appears to have gone away after
switching to Avast.

Have you tried marking the message as read and then deleting it? That's
what I've been doing and so far it has always worked. Other things:

Try repairing the database with WMUtil from www.oehelp.com

There are two copies of WindowsMail.MSMessageStore, One in
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Microsoft\Windows Mail
and one in
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Backup\New
If you delete both of these the database will be rebuilt. However, while no
messages should be lost, some may be downloaded again and you may lose some
record of which have been read. I recommend that you only do this when they
are causing you trouble, like when they are in the Outbox. Otherwise I now
just mark them as read and ignore them.

If none of those fixes work for you or you're afraid to try them, use a
different program like Thunderbird, which is free.
 
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