Javascriot wont open

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Philip Jones

I am using IE6 on XP home.

Whenever i click on a page link that has 'Javascript' prefixing the url i
just get 'error on page' and nothing happens. I have javascript enabled and
sun java installed.. There are no popups disabled and just about everything
else i can think of is enabled. This only effects IE as i am having no
problems with Netscape.. Unfortunately i prefer to use IE so would like to
solve this

Philip Jones
 
Hi,

Some possibilities:
Go to Internet Options> Security> Internet Zone, set it to Default.

Clear the IE cache. IE> Tools> Internet Options> General> Delete
files (and delete offline content when that dialog pops up) It's often
recommended that the TIF folder be kept at about 50 MB (Settings.)

Go To Internet Options> Advanced> Browsing> uncheck "Enable third-party
browser extensions" (as a test) Restart. If the problem has gone away you'll
have to find the BHO, toolbar, pop-up blocker, etc that caused the problem.

Check all third-party security programs to see if one of them is blocking
scripts, scripting, active content. Norton Internet Security and a number of
other programs can be configured to block scripts.

Try these two commands from Start> Run> cmd [enter]
regsvr32 vbscript.dll [enter]
regsvr32 jscript.dll [enter]

Reinstall the scripting engine. Go to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/webdev.asp
for the appropriate download of Windows Script 5.6

Re-registering the DLLs listed in this article may help:
281679 - You Cannot Open New Internet Explorer Window or Nothing Happens
After You Click a Link: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]
 
Don

Thanks
Clearing the cache offline content did the trick...but i sure like to know
why
Philip Jones

Don Varnau said:
Hi,

Some possibilities:
Go to Internet Options> Security> Internet Zone, set it to Default.

Clear the IE cache. IE> Tools> Internet Options> General> Delete
files (and delete offline content when that dialog pops up) It's often
recommended that the TIF folder be kept at about 50 MB (Settings.)

Go To Internet Options> Advanced> Browsing> uncheck "Enable third-party
browser extensions" (as a test) Restart. If the problem has gone away
you'll
have to find the BHO, toolbar, pop-up blocker, etc that caused the
problem.

Check all third-party security programs to see if one of them is blocking
scripts, scripting, active content. Norton Internet Security and a number
of
other programs can be configured to block scripts.

Try these two commands from Start> Run> cmd [enter]
regsvr32 vbscript.dll [enter]
regsvr32 jscript.dll [enter]

Reinstall the scripting engine. Go to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/webdev.asp
for the appropriate download of Windows Script 5.6

Re-registering the DLLs listed in this article may help:
281679 - You Cannot Open New Internet Explorer Window or Nothing Happens
After You Click a Link: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Philip Jones said:
I am using IE6 on XP home.

Whenever i click on a page link that has 'Javascript' prefixing the url i
just get 'error on page' and nothing happens. I have javascript enabled
and
sun java installed.. There are no popups disabled and just about
everything
else i can think of is enabled. This only effects IE as i am having no
problems with Netscape.. Unfortunately i prefer to use IE so would like
to
solve this
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Hi,
I don't know why it works, but it sometimes does. Thanks for reporting back.

Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Philip Jones said:
Don

Thanks
Clearing the cache offline content did the trick...but i sure like to know
why
Philip Jones
Click to expand...
Don Varnau said:
Hi,
Some possibilities:
Go to Internet Options> Security> Internet Zone, set it to Default.

Clear the IE cache. IE> Tools> Internet Options> General> Delete
files (and delete offline content when that dialog pops up) It's often
recommended that the TIF folder be kept at about 50 MB (Settings.)

Go To Internet Options> Advanced> Browsing> uncheck "Enable third-party
browser extensions" (as a test) Restart. If the problem has gone away
you'll
have to find the BHO, toolbar, pop-up blocker, etc that caused the
problem.

Check all third-party security programs to see if one of them is blocking
scripts, scripting, active content. Norton Internet Security and a number
of
other programs can be configured to block scripts.

Try these two commands from Start> Run> cmd [enter]
regsvr32 vbscript.dll [enter]
regsvr32 jscript.dll [enter]

Reinstall the scripting engine. Go to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/webdev.asp
for the appropriate download of Windows Script 5.6

Re-registering the DLLs listed in this article may help:
281679 - You Cannot Open New Internet Explorer Window or Nothing Happens
After You Click a Link: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679
Philip Jones said:
I am using IE6 on XP home.

Whenever i click on a page link that has 'Javascript' prefixing the url i
just get 'error on page' and nothing happens. I have javascript enabled
and
sun java installed.. There are no popups disabled and just about
everything
else i can think of is enabled. This only effects IE as i am having no
problems with Netscape.. Unfortunately i prefer to use IE so would like
to solve this
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Philip Jones said:
Don

Thanks
Clearing the cache offline content did the trick...but i sure like to know why
Philip Jones
Click to expand...


I suspect it would be because there is an intermediate cache in your
path which is not completely up-to-date but which is trying to satisfy
cache-checking requests. Hence, if an old version of the script was
cached IE would have sent a request to check it for currency.
The intermediate cache would have replied that IE's version matched
the cache's copy. Meanwhile the web application may be referring
to newer function names which are supposed to be found in that script
file but aren't because of the cache-checking error. Etc.

I suppose there doesn't even have to be an intermediate cache causing
the problem. E.g., the host server's cache could be broken too.
In any case, all such uncertainty caused by cache-checking can be
avoided by clearing the cache or sometimes by using Ctrl-F5
to request IE not to do cache-checking on that page. I always try Ctrl-F5
first because it is so easy and because then if it worked it wouldn't affect
the performance of any of your other cached pages.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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