XP IE and WiFi Problems

Dug out an old Acer Aspire One notebook.
Has IE8.00 and a dead battery.
wifi Atheros AD5007EG


1) tried to open internet options but was not allowed.
---------------------------
Restrictions
---------------------------
This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this
computer. Please contact your system administrator.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

What might have I installed to do this?

2) trying to go to most any website I get this message and IE shows in
red background
x Certificate Error

What causes that?

3) Ethernet hardwire(Realtek RTL8102E) works OK but wireless is wierd.
WiFi Shows my router and a printer wifi that is new so this notebook
did not know about that until this latest power up.
It occassionally gets a brief download. e,g, showed win updates but
would not download over wifi. hardwire ethernet downloads ok.
Any suggestions?



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| 1) tried to open internet options but was not allowed.
| ---------------------------
| Restrictions
| ---------------------------
| This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this
| computer. Please contact your system administrator.

Malware or corporate IT people might do something
like that. You can look it up online. Alternatively,
check he

http://www.jsware.net/jsware/iemd.php5

It's an HTA utility to provide one-stop shopping for
solutions to various obscure and annoying IE
shortcomings, mostly controlled by Registry entries.

You really should avoid IE if you can. XP can't
run anything later than IE8. IE is high risk to begin
with, and you're running a version that's *very*
old. Even if you get it working OK, many sites are
going to refuse to work with it.

Mayayana wrote:
| 1) tried to open internet options but was not allowed.
| ---------------------------
| Restrictions
| ---------------------------
| This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this
| computer. Please contact your system administrator.

Malware or corporate IT people might do something
like that. You can look it up online. Alternatively,
check he

http://www.jsware.net/jsware/iemd.php5

It's an HTA utility to provide one-stop shopping for
solutions to various obscure and annoying IE
shortcomings, mostly controlled by Registry entries.

You really should avoid IE if you can. XP can't
run anything later than IE8. IE is high risk to begin
with, and you're running a version that's *very*
old. Even if you get it working OK, many sites are
going to refuse to work with it.



If you want to test web pages, you can use virtual machines
available for free. These are OSes where the license is not
activated, and you might get a month out of them. Simply unpack
the download again, for another month of usage. This way, you
can keep copies of the various IE browsers, for test against
a site. If your current IE is busted, you can run an IE in
a VM. For example, my host OS is WinXP, and I have a WinXP
guest OS. And I can run the copy of IE in there, with nothing
"busted". you can use file sharing, if materials need to go back
and forth, or depending on the setup, drag and drop.

https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtuali...ools#downloads

Paul

| If you want to test web pages, you can use virtual machines
| available for free. These are OSes where the license is not
| activated, and you might get a month out of them. Simply unpack
| the download again, for another month of usage. This way, you
| can keep copies of the various IE browsers, for test against
| a site. If your current IE is busted, you can run an IE in
| a VM. For example, my host OS is WinXP, and I have a WinXP
| guest OS. And I can run the copy of IE in there, with nothing
| "busted". you can use file sharing, if materials need to go back
| and forth, or depending on the setup, drag and drop.
|
| https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtuali...ools#downloads
|

OldGuy was just dealing with trying to get things
working on an old XP system, unless I misunderstood.

Maybe you were addressing your comment to me?
In that case, I have no use for VMs. I write all pages
targetted to IE in "quirks mode". Write once, run
always. I'm not about to spend time tweaking pages
to work properly with numerous versions of IE that are
all incompatible *with each other*. By leaving the
DOCTYPE tag out of the webpage all pages in IE
display as they would in IE6.

Mayayana wrote:
| If you want to test web pages, you can use virtual machines
| available for free. These are OSes where the license is not
| activated, and you might get a month out of them. Simply unpack
| the download again, for another month of usage. This way, you
| can keep copies of the various IE browsers, for test against
| a site. If your current IE is busted, you can run an IE in
| a VM. For example, my host OS is WinXP, and I have a WinXP
| guest OS. And I can run the copy of IE in there, with nothing
| "busted". you can use file sharing, if materials need to go back
| and forth, or depending on the setup, drag and drop.
|
| https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtuali...ools#downloads
|

OldGuy was just dealing with trying to get things
working on an old XP system, unless I misunderstood.

Maybe you were addressing your comment to me?
In that case, I have no use for VMs. I write all pages
targetted to IE in "quirks mode". Write once, run
always. I'm not about to spend time tweaking pages
to work properly with numerous versions of IE that are
all incompatible *with each other*. By leaving the
DOCTYPE tag out of the webpage all pages in IE
display as they would in IE6.

You can use a VM to bypass a problem, but it isn't very
practical.

Paul

"OldGuy" wrote in message ...
Dug out an old Acer Aspire One notebook.
Has IE8.00 and a dead battery.
wifi Atheros AD5007EG
1) tried to open internet options but was not allowed.
---------------------------
Restrictions
---------------------------
This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this
computer. Please contact your system administrator.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------
What might have I installed to do this?

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216583/en-us

2) trying to go to most any website I get this message and IE shows in
red background
x Certificate Error
What causes that?

Make sure the date is set correctly on the computer. Also see
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/i...s-faq#ie=ie-11

3) Ethernet hardwire(Realtek RTL8102E) works OK but wireless is wierd.
WiFi Shows my router and a printer wifi that is new so this notebook
did not know about that until this latest power up.
It occassionally gets a brief download. e,g, showed win updates but
would not download over wifi. hardwire ethernet downloads ok.
Any suggestions?

You might try disabling the Ethernet connection while using the wireless one. Type
"control netconnections" into the "Run" box.

Ben