Recently I had some issues with IE and font size. It was getting all screwed
up for no apparent reason. Too small, too big, failure to wrap properly. I
played with the font settings and that seems to have been all fixed now.
It's working fine.

But since that experience, the font in many applications' *.chm Help files
is now much too large. The letters are almost a quarter inch tall, and
nothing I do, even fiddling with IE options again, affects the size at all.
Anyone know how to fix this?

On Apr 12, 10:13*am, "Paul Pedersen" <nos...@no.spam> wrote:
> Recently I had some issues with IE and font size. It was getting all screwed
> up for no apparent reason. Too small, too big, failure to wrap properly. I
> played with the font settings and that seems to have been all fixed now.
> It's working fine.
>
> But since that experience, the font in many applications' *.chm Help files
> is now much too large. The letters are almost a quarter inch tall, and
> nothing I do, even fiddling with IE options again, affects the size at all.
> Anyone know how to fix this?

I'm having the same problems. I didn't pay attention at first so I'm
not sure of the timing, but I recently installed IE8.

Regedt32.exe/Regedit.exe no longer displays the Type and Data columns
in the Value pane. You have to double click on the value name to bring
up the edit dialogue to see what if anything is stored.

One app stopped working at all displaying a cryptic message box saying
something like "Cannot continue because an unnamed file contains an
invalid path". Other programs fail silently when executed.

Google produced only 3 hits that vaguely hinted at a dll issue.
Depends.exe (Dependency Walker) indicates three dlls (EFSADU.DLL
IESHIMS.DLL and WER.DLL) have gone missing (actually, cannot be found)
which isn't necessarily a problem.

Based on the linkages displayed in the dependency tree, of the 3
IESHIMS.DLL appears to be most significant. It is linked IEFRAME.DLL
It seems reasonable to speculate that compiled help and MS HTML based
apps could use Frames functionality and IE has migrated to the .NET
framework.

Oh what a tangled web.

Thanks for your post. I'm wasting a lot of time tracking this down
without chasing ghosts that are specific to my system. I'm going to
run dependency traces on other programs having episodes to see if
there is any pattern.

In the mean time is there any kind soul knows where all or any of the
dlls above can be downloaded. I'm currently running XP SP3 fully up to
date (as per a visit to Microsoft Update last night ... hmmm, maybe
the night before).

I'm going to run

On Apr 12, 10:13*am, "Paul Pedersen" <nos...@no.spam> wrote:
> Recently I had some issues with IE and font size. It was getting all screwed
> up for no apparent reason. Too small, too big, failure to wrap properly. I
> played with the font settings and that seems to have been all fixed now.
> It's working fine.
>
> But since that experience, the font in many applications' *.chm Help files
> is now much too large. The letters are almost a quarter inch tall, and
> nothing I do, even fiddling with IE options again, affects the size at all.
> Anyone know how to fix this?

I found that on my system the module with unresolved function symbols
is IEFRAME.DLL file/link date 03.08.2009 4:39a version:
8.0.6001.18702. MSVCRT.DLL (Visual C/C++ runtime) file/link date is
04.13.2008 8:12p version (file) 7.0.2600.5512 (product) 6.1.8638.5512.

When I installed IE8 there was a click notice requesting confirmation
that I wanted to help test IE8 beta. I guess it's earlier in the beta
phase then I can afford. IE8 is not the least bit important to me.
I'll try uninstalling it, see if IE7 is rolled back automatically and
pray that resolves the problems I'm aware of and a lot more I haven't
discovered.

"News at 11", metaphorically speaking.

OBTW. I did find copies of the 3 dlls mention in my previous post.
They or at least the versions I download probably made things worse.
It was actually a good thing. It filed in enough of the blanks (links)
that I noticed the difference in versions.

I don't remember for sure, but I think the problem predated my installation
of IE8, so I wouldn't be quick to blame that. In any case, I like IE8.



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On Apr 12, 10:13 am, "Paul Pedersen" <nos...@no.spam> wrote:
> Recently I had some issues with IE and font size. It was getting all
> screwed
> up for no apparent reason. Too small, too big, failure to wrap properly. I
> played with the font settings and that seems to have been all fixed now.
> It's working fine.
>
> But since that experience, the font in many applications' *.chm Help files
> is now much too large. The letters are almost a quarter inch tall, and
> nothing I do, even fiddling with IE options again, affects the size at
> all.
> Anyone know how to fix this?

I found that on my system the module with unresolved function symbols
is IEFRAME.DLL file/link date 03.08.2009 4:39a version:
8.0.6001.18702. MSVCRT.DLL (Visual C/C++ runtime) file/link date is
04.13.2008 8:12p version (file) 7.0.2600.5512 (product) 6.1.8638.5512.

When I installed IE8 there was a click notice requesting confirmation
that I wanted to help test IE8 beta. I guess it's earlier in the beta
phase then I can afford. IE8 is not the least bit important to me.
I'll try uninstalling it, see if IE7 is rolled back automatically and
pray that resolves the problems I'm aware of and a lot more I haven't
discovered.

"News at 11", metaphorically speaking.

OBTW. I did find copies of the 3 dlls mention in my previous post.
They or at least the versions I download probably made things worse.
It was actually a good thing. It filed in enough of the blanks (links)
that I noticed the difference in versions.