View Source problem

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Mike

When I try to view source on a web page nothing happens.
This includes my own page. I have tried deleting the
files in the Temporary files folder but i dosen't help. I
am using XP.
 
There are a number of reasons that the Internet Explorer View Source feature
may not function correctly, below is a list of the most common causes. Hope
this helps.
1.. Temporary Files Full
When the Internet Explorer disk cache becomes full it may stop the View
Source function from working. To resolve, open Internet Explorer and click
"Tools" > "Internet Options" > "Delete Files".

2.. Cookie Folder Location
This issue can also occur if your Cookies folder is located on an NTFS
partition and you do not have at least Change permissions for the Cookies
folder. To resolve, make sure your account has sufficient permissions on the
Cookies folder.

3.. Missing Notepad.exe
The View Source function uses Notepad to display the HTML, if
"notepad.exe" is missing from the Windows directory then it will not work.
To resolve, ensure a copy of Notepad.exe is in the Windows directory.

4.. Invalid Temporary Directory
You may also receive this error if the path specified for the TMP
environment variable is invalid. To resolve, make sure that the TEMP
directory is a valid directory and that there is sufficient space on the
drive.

5.. Invalid View Source Program
If you have specified an alternate program to view the source code (see
Use an Alternate Source Viewer with Internet Explorer). To resolve, make
sure that the alternate viewer is valid and operational.
You may need to restart Internet Explorer for most of these changes to take
effect.
 
-----Original Message-----
When I try to view source on a web page nothing happens.
This includes my own page. I have tried deleting the
files in the Temporary files folder but i dosen't help. I
am using XP.
.
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I encountered this problem and a suggestion on this group
said to look for a shortcut to Notepad (with the
name "Notepad") on my desktop. Sure enough, renaming the
shortcut fixed the IE View Source problem.
 
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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Mike,
Some of the newsgroup replies speak of clearing cache, temporary files, messing with the Registry, etc., to fix this problem, but I do most of that regularly, and NotePad always opened with the desired HTML code. Suddenly, NotePad opened with nothing in the page.

Try this: 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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