IE 6

[Shawn Keene]

Okay I'm not exactly sure what I did... but somehow I inadvertantly caused my
IE (version 6) to quit working properly.

_________________
The Problem: When I open IE, it sits patiently at my homepage
(about:blank). But if I type a URL into the address bar, as soon as I click
GO or press ENTER, it opens a new window of IE, and goes to the page I
wanted. What gives? I'm using FireFox to post this now, by the way.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
How I broke it and what I've tried so far:
Okay here's what I did: I'm at a coffee shop working on a project with a
friend. He discovers I have a folder in my My Docs folder called Downloads,
and I explained I kept a lot of the programs or at least install executables
of what I downloaded. Within that folder was also a copy of the download
from a few months back of the first IE 7 beta. It didn't even have an
install program -- it was just a folder with lots of files. One of which
was, of course, iexplore.exe.

I said "It was really quite similar to the Beta 2 you have now. Here,
look:" and I doubleclick on that executable.

It didn't open. I got an error about a bad pointer or something, and it
closed.

Whatever, I didn't care. Later though I realize that my IE (6) hangs when
it opens. Have to end the process with Task Manager. I thought maybe it
just needed a reboot.

Didn't help.

Well I tried to fix it by running System File Checker (prompted for Windows
XP SP2 disc, and I popped in my OS CD). It finished, I rebooted, and now it
has the problem described above.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Any ideas?

___________________
Shawn

[Shawn Keene]

Oh and I'd like to try not to use System Restore... the only available date
is three days ago, and it was after that that I finally got Office Beta 2007
working to my liking, and I don't want to undo all that work (or make a mess
of files that get disassociated and all kinds of querks that I know will
happen if I use Restore.


Shawn




"Shawn Keene" wrote:

> Okay I'm not exactly sure what I did... but somehow I inadvertantly caused my
> IE (version 6) to quit working properly.
>
> _________________
> The Problem: When I open IE, it sits patiently at my homepage
> (about:blank). But if I type a URL into the address bar, as soon as I click
> GO or press ENTER, it opens a new window of IE, and goes to the page I
> wanted. What gives? I'm using FireFox to post this now, by the way.
>
> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
> How I broke it and what I've tried so far:
> Okay here's what I did: I'm at a coffee shop working on a project with a
> friend. He discovers I have a folder in my My Docs folder called Downloads,
> and I explained I kept a lot of the programs or at least install executables
> of what I downloaded. Within that folder was also a copy of the download
> from a few months back of the first IE 7 beta. It didn't even have an
> install program -- it was just a folder with lots of files. One of which
> was, of course, iexplore.exe.
>
> I said "It was really quite similar to the Beta 2 you have now. Here,
> look:" and I doubleclick on that executable.
>
> It didn't open. I got an error about a bad pointer or something, and it
> closed.
>
> Whatever, I didn't care. Later though I realize that my IE (6) hangs when
> it opens. Have to end the process with Task Manager. I thought maybe it
> just needed a reboot.
>
> Didn't help.
>
> Well I tried to fix it by running System File Checker (prompted for Windows
> XP SP2 disc, and I popped in my OS CD). It finished, I rebooted, and now it
> has the problem described above.
> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
>
> Any ideas?
>
> ___________________
> Shawn

[steam3801]

On Wed, 24 May 2006 23:11:02 -0700, Shawn Keene
> - in a blinding flash of
brilliance - wrote:

>... Office Beta 2007
>...IE 7 beta

You love flirtin' with danger, don't you?
--
steam3801
ASCII a silly question, get a silly ANSI

[Shawn Keene]

Grrrr... Okay now FireFox is my default browser, and when I type a URL into
IE's address bar and hit enter, it opens a FireFox window to load the URL i
typed.

And I tried getting IE to set itself as the default but it won't ask when it
starts (even though that option is on). Also, the "Reset Web Settings..."
button in the IE Options dialog doesn't do anything except press down and up
when I click it.


Grrrr help....


Shawn




"Shawn Keene" wrote:

> Okay I'm not exactly sure what I did... but somehow I inadvertantly caused my
> IE (version 6) to quit working properly.
>
> _________________
> The Problem: When I open IE, it sits patiently at my homepage
> (about:blank). But if I type a URL into the address bar, as soon as I click
> GO or press ENTER, it opens a new window of IE, and goes to the page I
> wanted. What gives? I'm using FireFox to post this now, by the way.
>
> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
> How I broke it and what I've tried so far:
> Okay here's what I did: I'm at a coffee shop working on a project with a
> friend. He discovers I have a folder in my My Docs folder called Downloads,
> and I explained I kept a lot of the programs or at least install executables
> of what I downloaded. Within that folder was also a copy of the download
> from a few months back of the first IE 7 beta. It didn't even have an
> install program -- it was just a folder with lots of files. One of which
> was, of course, iexplore.exe.
>
> I said "It was really quite similar to the Beta 2 you have now. Here,
> look:" and I doubleclick on that executable.
>
> It didn't open. I got an error about a bad pointer or something, and it
> closed.
>
> Whatever, I didn't care. Later though I realize that my IE (6) hangs when
> it opens. Have to end the process with Task Manager. I thought maybe it
> just needed a reboot.
>
> Didn't help.
>
> Well I tried to fix it by running System File Checker (prompted for Windows
> XP SP2 disc, and I popped in my OS CD). It finished, I rebooted, and now it
> has the problem described above.
> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
>
> Any ideas?
>
> ___________________
> Shawn

[John]

"Shawn Keene" > wrote in message
...
> Grrrr... Okay now FireFox is my default browser, and when I type a URL
> into
> IE's address bar and hit enter, it opens a FireFox window to load the URL
> i
> typed.
>
> And I tried getting IE to set itself as the default but it won't ask when
> it
> starts (even though that option is on). Also, the "Reset Web Settings..."
> button in the IE Options dialog doesn't do anything except press down and
> up
> when I click it.
>
>
> Grrrr help....
>
>
> Shawn
>
>
>
>
> "Shawn Keene" wrote:
>
>> Okay I'm not exactly sure what I did... but somehow I inadvertantly
>> caused my
>> IE (version 6) to quit working properly.
>>
>> _________________
>> The Problem: When I open IE, it sits patiently at my homepage
>> (about:blank). But if I type a URL into the address bar, as soon as I
>> click
>> GO or press ENTER, it opens a new window of IE, and goes to the page I
>> wanted. What gives? I'm using FireFox to post this now, by the way.
>>
>> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
>> How I broke it and what I've tried so far:
>> Okay here's what I did: I'm at a coffee shop working on a project with a
>> friend. He discovers I have a folder in my My Docs folder called
>> Downloads,
>> and I explained I kept a lot of the programs or at least install
>> executables
>> of what I downloaded. Within that folder was also a copy of the download
>> from a few months back of the first IE 7 beta. It didn't even have an
>> install program -- it was just a folder with lots of files. One of which
>> was, of course, iexplore.exe.
>>
>> I said "It was really quite similar to the Beta 2 you have now. Here,
>> look:" and I doubleclick on that executable.
>>
>> It didn't open. I got an error about a bad pointer or something, and it
>> closed.
>>
>> Whatever, I didn't care. Later though I realize that my IE (6) hangs
>> when
>> it opens. Have to end the process with Task Manager. I thought maybe it
>> just needed a reboot.
>>
>> Didn't help.
>>
>> Well I tried to fix it by running System File Checker (prompted for
>> Windows
>> XP SP2 disc, and I popped in my OS CD). It finished, I rebooted, and now
>> it
>> has the problem described above.
>> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> ___________________
>> Shawn

Shawn, not help - but similar to my problem posted a few days ago - but as
yet no fix:


"I was using IE7 - I reloaded XP and that started the problem. Trying to
reload IE7 and I get the message that it is already loaded. If I try to load
IE6 I get a message that a later version is installed.
In the meantime I have had to load Firefox to enable me to get on the web.

Other symptoms include - on startup. RUNDLL:
Error loading msfeed.dll The specified procedure cannot be found.

IE 6 or 7 is not in the Add/ Remove list in Control Panel"


John