IE6 shuts down on running video?

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Honor

Looking for some help here, wondering if anyone has heard of the
following situation:

I have a training CD that uses IE as it's program to run. When you
start the CD, it uses IE to play a video while simutaneously showing a
PPT type presentation. Actually it even says near the bottom "created
with Microsoft Producers for PowerPoint; 2003".

When you start the video, (playing within IE) it starts up and plays for
about 40 seconds, before the entire program shuts down w/out warning.
There is no error message before or after, and the computer itself does
not shut down.

The CD requires IE5, Windows Media Player 7, AdobeAcrobat 5.0, of which
I have above the required versions (except Acrobat, which I have in 5.0
so it's still within the version).

I have tried the other CD's in the library, and they all do the same thing.
Has anyone else heard of this happening/had this happen and know what I
can do to fix it?
I REALLY need to use these CDs..

Also, FWIW, I'm running Windows XP and FireFox is my default brower, but
I was copying the CD's destination into the IE browser manually.
 
Hi Honor,
I can only guess at this one. Try reseting IE as your default browser.
Start>Set Program access and defaults.

Reload the CD into the drive and let it autorun to start the video or open
windows explorer and find the autorun file in the root directory of the cd
and select it.

I am thinking that there must be links on the CD that are tying to open new
windows to display the power point presentations and since FF is your
default browser FF does not load the file and leave IE hung.
I assume also that you have Office with PowerPoint installed on your
machine.

Regards.
 
Rob,
Hah! I feel so silly now for not thinking about that! Thankfully, as of
now, it seems as you were right.
Although strangely, even after setting my default browser to IE the CD
still decided to open up in Firefox. But I remembered that you can
right click "Open As" and using that to open the program in IE seems to
have stopped the problem.
Many many thanks! You have no idea how important the CD is. :)

~A very grateful Honor.
 
NP.
Honor said:
Rob,
Hah! I feel so silly now for not thinking about that! Thankfully, as of
now, it seems as you were right.
Although strangely, even after setting my default browser to IE the CD
still decided to open up in Firefox. But I remembered that you can right
click "Open As" and using that to open the program in IE seems to have
stopped the problem.
Many many thanks! You have no idea how important the CD is. :)

~A very grateful Honor.
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