Problem accessing View Source

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kristin p

I cannot seem to get Explorer to show me the html of any
web pages when I use the View Source. Any suggestions???

Kristin P
 
Clear out your Temporary Internet files. If it still
doesn't work, look to see if you have a shortcut on your
desktop called Notepad. If you do, rename it to something
else and give that a try.

Hope that helps!
 
OMG! I've been fighting this for a week and a half. The notepad idea did the
trick. What could possibly have changed in IE that screwed it up? One too
many "HotFixes" I supposed.

Thanks again
 
Unfortunately, I tried both of those and neither were
there. There was no shortcut on my desktop called Notepad
and I didn't have a temporary internet file.

Any other suggestions????
Kris
 
Have you tried this?

Clear the IE cache. I.E./Tools/Options/General/Delete files (and delete
offline content.) It's often recommended that the Temporary Internet Files
(folder) be kept at
40-50 MB. Bigger isn't necessarily better.
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Source Code Is Not Displayed When You Click Source on the View Menu in
Internet Explorer
This behavior can occur if there are too many files in the Temporary
Internet Files folder.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306907 (i. e. 5, 6.
W95/98/se/NT4/W2000/ME/XP 6/4/2003)

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Kristin,
Some of the responses speak of clearing cache, temporary files, etc., but that is something I do regularly, and NotePad always opened with the desired HTML code. Suddenly, NotePad opened with nothing in the page.

For your problem: Make sure that "notepad.exe" is present in your PC. I did a search for all occurances of "notepad" and came up with two 65K versions in the c:\windows and c:\program files\internet explorer\connection wizard. There was a third file in c:\windows\system32, but it was only 3K. I opened it with an editor and found an "MZ" file identifier (which means nothing to me). But, renaming this file to "Xnotepad.exe" made the HTML code suddenly reappear when I click on View Source. This anomaly just seemed to happen, and I have no idea how it got there.

I hope this helps.
 
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