Hi Jan - Well, the single common element you describe is core IE exclusive
of SP1 or 2. Here's my full "fix IE" post - maybe something in it will
suggest something:
There is no direct Repair function for IE6 in XP. Here are some
alternatives:
First try this courtesy of MVP Ramesh Srinivasan:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm
Then try each of the following:
1. If you're on XP SP2, try the following suggestions from KB 870700,
here:
How to troubleshoot problems accessing secure Web pages with Internet
Explorer 6 Service Pack 2,
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870700#9
first. Don't worry that your problem isn't specifically secure-page
related - these extracted below are general fix steps for the most part.
Check to see if your problem remains after each:
a. Turn off the pop-up blocker
Internet Explorer SP2 includes the ability to block pop-up windows. This
new
feature may block some Web pages. To turn off the Pop-Up Blocker, follow
these steps:
1) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, and
then
click the General tab.
2) Click the Privacy tab.
3) In the Pop-Up Blocker section, click to clear the Block pop-ups check
box.
4) Click Apply.
5) Click OK.
b. Delete the contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder
If a copy of the Web page is in the Temporary Internet Files folder, the
page may not display as expected. To resolve this problem, you must delete
the contents of this folder. To do this, follow these steps:
1) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, and
then
click the General tab.
2) Click Delete Cookies, and then click OK.
3) Click Delete Files, and then click OK.
4) Click Clear History, and then click Yes.
5) Click OK.
c. Third-party browser extensions
Some third-party browser extensions and add-ons may interfere with how
Internet Explorer views certain Web pages. To turn off these extensions,
follow these steps:
1) Click Start, right-click Internet Explorer, and then click Internet
Properties.
2) Click the Advanced tab.
3) Click to clear the Enable third-party browser extensions (requires
restart) check box.
4) Click Apply.
5) Click Ok.
6) Start Internet Explorer, and then try to reproduce the issue.
d. Reset the Security Zones to the default settings:
1) On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, and
then
click the Security tab.
2) Click Internet, and then click Default Level.
3) Click Local Intranet, and then click Default Level.
4) Click Trusted sites, and then click Default Level.
5) Click Restricted sites, and then click Default Level.
6) Click Apply.
7) On the Privacy tab, click Default, and then click Apply.
2. Then you need to go (as an Administrator) to Start|Run and type "sfc
/scannow" (without the quotes and notice the space between the c and the
/.)
Have your XP CD handy and be prepared to go get a cup of coffee - it takes
a
while. This will do the same thing as Repair IE6 for XP but a lot more,
that is find any corrupt system files and replace them. It does NOT,
however, re-register the various software components, and you will need to
do this manually using regsvr32.exe if any are shown as replaced in
Event Viewer|System.
Be aware that under certain circumstances (Win2k before SP4 - see mskb
814510,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q814510)
sfc
can erroneously overwrite (restore over) previously installed files from
certain "hotfixes" which will then need to be re-installed. This may also
apply to XP. To check for this, after running sfc, open a Cmd window and
enter "qfecheck /v /l:c:\" (without the quotes). If you don't have
qfecheck
installed, it can be obtained for XP here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=35468 and for
Win2k
here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=35470 A
version stated to be common to both is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=155C7C58-102E-47B0-A12A-BFAB8CFCCC03
Further information about qfecheck is
available here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282784/EN/
3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6 listed
in
Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter
"rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"
without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select the
appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description of
the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You may
have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards, BTW.)
4. If you find that you need to do a re-install of IE6 then you can
consider the following:
1) Insert the Windows installation CD in your CD-ROM drive.
2) Click Start, and click Run.
3) Copy the command prompt below in the Open box (exactly as shown - it's
case sensitive), and click OK. (Assumes %System% is installed in Windows
on
your C:\ partition. Change as appropriate for your particular situation.)
rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132
c:\windows\inf\ie.inf
4) It will display a "File Needed" screen, click "Browse.." and browse to
<CD-ROM drive>\i386, (where <CD-ROM drive> is the drive letter of the
CD-ROM, For example, D
.
5) Click Open, click Ok, it should begin reinstalling Internet Explorer.
(NOTE: It has been reported, courtesy of Steve Wechsler, that if you're
on
Windows XP Pro SP2, it may prompt you for some files that it cannot find
in
the WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder, which you'll then need to
browse
to. It's thought that this may apply to XP Home also. The specific files
are iexplore.exe which actually IS in the i386 folder,
mswrd632.wpc
, which is located in the Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\TextConv folder, AND, INSTALL.IN_ , which will be located
on
a slipstreamed XP Pro CD in the i386 folder and also located in the i386
folder on an XP Pro SP1 disk. So, copying the 2 files above to the
WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder should allow you to be able to
repair/reinstall IE on an SP2 system by right clicking ie.inf in the
WINDOWS\inf folder and selecting Install or using the rundll32.exe line
given above.)
5. Lastly, here is a link to a MSKB article about re-installing IE6/OE6:
How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in
Windows
XP (Q318378)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;Q318378
--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/
|| ||| Yeah, I agree Bear - looking at the rest of the thread something's
clearly
||| out of kilter beyond a normal .reg reset. I wonder if a
Tools|Internet
||| Options|Programs| "Reset Web Settings" or a Repair IE:
||
|| The one thing that gets me is that is it not limited to one type of OS,
it
|| seems to be affecting them all across the board, and yet, not all
Users.
And
|| it comes and goes. So....how the heck do you nail it down? It does
seem
to
|| be Internet generated, but, why not all Users?
||
|||
||| "3. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6
listed
||| in
||| Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter
|||
||| "rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"
|||
||| without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select
the
||| appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description
of
||| the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
|||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177 (You
may
||| have to re-install Sun Java JRE if you had it installed afterwards,
BTW.)"
|||
|||
||| would work, or has this already been tried somewhere along the way?
||
|| IIRC, somewhere along the way in one of the threads here or the AumHa
forum,
|| I or someone else did recommend doing a repair, and AIRC it did not
resolve
|| the problem. I am really pretty sure at this point, given that I am
|| experiencing the same situation as the OPs that is it not a problem
with
the
|| PC's, program or update. We are not all using the same OS, firewall, AV
or
|| other such programs, the only link is IE. However, there too, is a
|| difference, as some only have IE6 SP1, and some of us have IE SP2.
????
||
|| Jan
|| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa
|||
|||
||| --
||| Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
||| My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
|||
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/
|||
|||
|||
||| ||||| It didn't do what "Anna" wanted it to do when she tried it from my
post in her
||||| thread at Aumha Forums, Jim. I think "something" definitely has
changed. --
||||| ~PA Bear
|||||
||||| Jim Byrd wrote:
|||||| Hi Jan - Did you try my .reg file on this?
||||||
||||||
|||||| Download and run:
||||||
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG to
restore
|||||| your default Search functionality and reset your prefixes. You'll
||| have
||| to
|||||| manually re-select any Search Customizations you may have had,
however.
||||||
||||||
|||||| ||||||| As of this time, the Search has changed back to it was earlier
this
||||||| morning. None of the Customize settings will work, and everything
just
||||||| hangs up again.
|||||||
||||||| Hope this helps.
|||||||
||||||| Jan
||||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
||||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
||||||| that's why they're so contagious.
|||||||
||||||| Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other
readers.
||||||| How to make a good newsgroup post:
|||||||
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
|||||||
|||||||
||||||| |||||||| They just now changed here, or at least within the last hour. I
see the
|||||||| same search list I did a few days ago when I first checked it due
to
|||||||| Anna's post. It then changed the Customize to only two
selections,
Search
|||||||| Assistant and Use one search service. No list boxes, and when I
||| tried
||| to
|||||||| select one of the choices, they would not work. When I clicked
OK,
it
|||||||| just brought the search list up again, and all that was in it was
the
|||||||| search window and the GO button.
||||||||
|||||||| Now, I see the same Search window in the panel, but, the
Customize
||| is
||| as
|||||||| it was before.
||||||||
|||||||| Hope this helps.
||||||||
|||||||| Jan
|||||||| MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
|||||||| Smiles are meant to be shared,
|||||||| that's why they're so contagious.
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||| ||||||||| Check again today and see if things have changed at all. They
have here.
||||||||| Why? I have no idea.
||||||||| --
||||||||| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
||||||||| MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
|||||||||
||||||||| PA Bear wrote:
|||||||||| See these recent threads:
http://snipurl.com/f05w
||||||||||
|||||||||| Yes, Search Assistant has changed. No, we don't know how or
why.
(This
|||||||||| may
|||||||||| have something to do with it:
||||||||||
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260821_msftads25.html.)
No,
|||||||||| there
|||||||||| doesn't seem to be a way of getting the old Search Assistant
back.
||||||||||
|||||||||| Steve Horrillo wrote:
||||||||||| I notice the Search Assistant isn't working right anymore.
"Next" is
||||||||||| now
||||||||||| greyed out and will only let me use one chosen search engine.
||| This
||| has
||||||||||| happened on my XP as well as my Win 2000 machine. What's
wrong?
