ERROR: There was a program sending the command to the program.

[Bloke at the pennine puddle]

Got an interesting problem with Internet Explorer 6 within WIndows XP,
and yes, I have gone through the motions to re-install IE6 SP-1 by
applying the small registry tweak to allow reinstallation, and have
ran WindowsUpdate to re-patch Explorer.

The following used to work....

I clicked `Start`, then `Run...`, typed in the URL instead of a file
name, Internet Explorer would open and call up the web page.

Now, I click `Start`, then `Run...`, typed in the URL instead of a
file name, Internet Explorer starts and a dialogue appears in the
middle of the screen, the UTL being the title and the message being
`There was a program sending the command to the program.`.

Problem is 100% reproducible. Internet Explorer in itself works fine.
It's more of an annoyance. Still, if I click a URL from my e-mail
client (Eudora 6) or news client (Forté Agent), or double click a URL
shortcut, it seems to work fine.

Anyone got any clues?

 

[Ed]

Got an interesting problem with Internet Explorer 6 within WIndows XP,
and yes, I have gone through the motions to re-install IE6 SP-1 by
applying the small registry tweak to allow reinstallation, and have
ran WindowsUpdate to re-patch Explorer.

The following used to work....

I clicked `Start`, then `Run...`, typed in the URL instead of a file
name, Internet Explorer would open and call up the web page.

Now, I click `Start`, then `Run...`, typed in the URL instead of a
file name, Internet Explorer starts and a dialogue appears in the
middle of the screen, the UTL being the title and the message being
`There was a problem sending the command to the program.`.

Problem is 100% reproducible Internet Explorer in itself works fine.
It's more of an annoyance. Still, if I click a URL from my e-mail
client (Eudora 6) or news client (Forté Agent), or double click a URL
shortcut, it seems to work fine.

Anyone got any clues?

(Reposted with the correct subject. I would kill the original post if
I knews how to do that from Forté.)

Try entering iexplore followed by the URL. ie iexplore msn.com

 

[Malke]

Try entering iexplore followed by the URL. ie iexplore msn.com

You've probably got some spyware causing trouble. Remove with tools like
Spybot S&D and/or Ad-aware.

Malke

 

[Bloke at the pennine puddle (Replace n.a.v.d with]

You've probably got some spyware causing trouble. Remove with tools like
Spybot S&D and/or Ad-aware.

Malke

Well, I'll check for spy-ware, but I very much doubt what I've got any
installed because I specifically do not use any programs that rely on
spy-ware, and this is right from the start. I did a spy-ware check
not that long ago and the check came out clean.

Any spy-ware I've got is on a old notebook computer that runs
automated tasks like P2P and the likes and the spy-ware stuff won't
get any jucy bits from that machine.

Anyone got any other clues?