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HiMan
Hello group,
Installing the 822925 (newest cumulative IE6 Patch) causes some weird
behavior on my XP Pro system installed on a FAT partition.
It causes the built in (renamed) Admin account to be unusable. It seems to
put all drives in restricted zone, thus each try to run anything from a
shortcut or a program folder causes the MSG "Windows cannot access the
specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permission
to access the item."
I can run explorer from the run command and see in the status bar, that My
Computer shows up as being in the My Computer zone, but all drive letters
(including floppy) show up as being in Restricted sites zone.
Running MMC and opening services gives an error MSG for expanded view AKA
"will not be displayed properly, because ActiveX controls are not allowed to
run."
Services run, but no programs (e.g. Zonealarm's True Vector loads, but ZA
GUI does not run, as it would need to be started from All Users Autostart.)
Very much looks as if all and everything is in Restricted zone.
I have seen at least two others posting with this problem.
They have not gotten any replies though so far. So I try as well ;-).
Another existing admin account can be used just fine, as well as a normal
user account.
Trying to troubleshoot this problem, I imported the Current User IE
zone settings from the working admin account to the not working one before
installing the patch. Rebooted several times between several tries of
installing the patch to a repeatedly restored and changed original. No Luck.
Event log is no help (can't see any possibly related errors, as far as I can
tell).
Tried install with a re-downloaded patch --> makes no difference.
Tried online install from Windows Update --> makes no difference.
If the weird behavior was occurring in another admin account, I would just
create a new one (a new one created with the patch already installed works
just fine). But as it's causing the built in admin account to work no more
...?
Further testing showed, that my problem seems to be caused by the new
URLMON.DLL. If I replace just this dll with the old one, the built in admin
account is working again.
So at the moment it looks, as if I can choose between a functional built in
admin account or using the updated urlmon.dll.
I would appreciate any pointers, that could help me troubleshoot. Thanks!
Installing the 822925 (newest cumulative IE6 Patch) causes some weird
behavior on my XP Pro system installed on a FAT partition.
It causes the built in (renamed) Admin account to be unusable. It seems to
put all drives in restricted zone, thus each try to run anything from a
shortcut or a program folder causes the MSG "Windows cannot access the
specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permission
to access the item."
I can run explorer from the run command and see in the status bar, that My
Computer shows up as being in the My Computer zone, but all drive letters
(including floppy) show up as being in Restricted sites zone.
Running MMC and opening services gives an error MSG for expanded view AKA
"will not be displayed properly, because ActiveX controls are not allowed to
run."
Services run, but no programs (e.g. Zonealarm's True Vector loads, but ZA
GUI does not run, as it would need to be started from All Users Autostart.)
Very much looks as if all and everything is in Restricted zone.
I have seen at least two others posting with this problem.
They have not gotten any replies though so far. So I try as well ;-).
Another existing admin account can be used just fine, as well as a normal
user account.
Trying to troubleshoot this problem, I imported the Current User IE
zone settings from the working admin account to the not working one before
installing the patch. Rebooted several times between several tries of
installing the patch to a repeatedly restored and changed original. No Luck.
Event log is no help (can't see any possibly related errors, as far as I can
tell).
Tried install with a re-downloaded patch --> makes no difference.
Tried online install from Windows Update --> makes no difference.
If the weird behavior was occurring in another admin account, I would just
create a new one (a new one created with the patch already installed works
just fine). But as it's causing the built in admin account to work no more
...?
Further testing showed, that my problem seems to be caused by the new
URLMON.DLL. If I replace just this dll with the old one, the built in admin
account is working again.
So at the moment it looks, as if I can choose between a functional built in
admin account or using the updated urlmon.dll.
I would appreciate any pointers, that could help me troubleshoot. Thanks!