IE Address Bar Missing for .MHT files

[Vickie]

WinXP IE SP1

The other day I noticed that the address bar had disappeared from the
IE browser when I was online. I did a little searching and found how
to get it back, which worked fine for everything but .mht documents.

(I went to View--Toolbars, Unlocked the toolbar, unchecked "Address",
rechecked "Address", dragged the "Address" word from the right side of
the screen downwards and the bar appeared. I relocked the toolbar
again.)

The address bar is now there for regular browsing but when I open saved
files in .mht format I can not get the Address toolbar option to stay
checked. I can get it to show an address bar by going through the
above process, but once I close the browser and try again, it's back to
being missing again and the Address selection is unchecked again.
Other file types show the address bar fine.

I also tried deleting the WebBrowser registry entry, but it made no
difference.

I tried System Restore, going back about 2 weeks, but no difference.

Thanks for any tips!

Vickie

 

[Vickie]

Still hoping for a reply...

 

[Vickie]

Well, I am getting discouraged.

I tried a little utility that resets the toolbars called
XP_Toolbarfix.exe, but things remain as before...no address toolbar
when I open a .mht document.

The settings are not being saved. If I adjust the settings and get the
address bar back it disappears again as soon as I close IE and reopen
it again. The setting will revert to Address unchecked.

Also, if I open a .mht document and there's no address bar, if I click
on any link within that document to access the web, there will also be
no address bar for that entire web session, unless I close the browser
and reopen it not accessing the .mht file first.

Regular browsing and viewing of htm and html files shows the addres bar
OK.

I'm really hoping for some help.

Thank you-
Vickie

 

[Rick Chauvin]

Hi Vickie,

I always use mht files too and so with interest I've been watching your
thread. I've never seen that happen before, and I've even tried a number of
things on my own computer to see if could reproduce your problem but I can't,
and no matter what I do I always have the address bar in my mht files. Your
issue is not one that happens often. Since you've tried System Restore one
would of thought that would of taken care of all reg changes that were made
since the time you had the mishap but it didn't, but I would think that this
is a registry issue.
I imagine you have cleared out via Internet Options all of your TIF files
just to make sure you don't have anything in there influencing old to new.
Control Panel> Internet Options> and on the first General tab go ahead and
click the middle Delete Files button under the Temporary Internet file
heading, might as well Clear History and Delete cookies too if you want.
It's all a long shot but nothing to lose here.

I don't have an answer for you, but just wanted to let you know someone is
thinking about it...

Rick

 

[Vickie]

Thanks, Rick. I guess it does make me feel a little better that at
least the thread was read, if not replied to. Clearing the cache
didn't help, unfortunately.

How about those very helpful MS MVP people. No suggestions?? I can't
believe this one is so complicated it's never been heard of before.

I'd love some ideas as to way the system is not retaining the Address
toolbar settings for .mht files only. It wouldn't even be so bad if,
when I clicked links inside those files, the address bar would at least
appear, but it's missing the whole time that browser is open unless I
do the whole Unlock, Recheck, Drag Address, Re-Lock process every time
I open up one of these files.

(Again, Address bar is fine through normal browsing and opening htm and
html files.)

Thank you-
Vickie

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Thanks, Rick. I guess it does make me feel a little better that at
least the thread was read, if not replied to. Clearing the cache
didn't help, unfortunately.

How about those very helpful MS MVP people. No suggestions?? I can't
believe this one is so complicated it's never been heard of before.

I'd love some ideas as to way the system is not retaining the Address
toolbar settings for .mht files only. It wouldn't even be so bad if,
when I clicked links inside those files, the address bar would at least
appear, but it's missing the whole time that browser is open unless I
do the whole Unlock, Recheck, Drag Address, Re-Lock process every time
I open up one of these files.

What happens if you clone that window by pressing Ctrl-N?

Is it *any* .mht file or just some of them that this happens with?
E.g. what happens if you save an E-mail in OE as .mht and then
get IE to open it? Otherwise perhaps it is scripts which are
controlling whether or not you get to see an Address bar with
that page? Etc.


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[Vickie]

Thank you for the reply.

Honestly, I do not use Outlook for email so I have no email to save in
any format through Outlook except for the initial "Welcome to Outlook
Express" ones that were there for ages that I never read. (I am one of
the few that actually likes AOL's email.) I tried to follow your
suggestion, but I see no means of saving in .mht format at all. All I
saw was .eml and .htm as options when selecting Save As from one of
those two emails in my Inbox.

So far any page I have previously saved in .mht format opens with a
browser now missing the Address bar. Some of these files are older and
certainly had the Address toolbar showing when viewed in the past. If
I copy one of these files and have our laptop open it, the same file
opens with IE having an Address toolbar, as it should.

Key thing seems to be that I can manually make the adjustments to see
the Address bar for .mht files, but it just doesn't save those
settings. (Only for .mht files.)

I tried a System Restore for 1 1/2 months ago, to the beginning of Feb
2005, and still the same problem.

Thanks again-
Vickie

 

[Vickie]

Rob - I tried that Ctl-N thing while IE had open an .mht file and no
Address toolbar, and the new screen showed the Address toolbar just as
it used to be. What does that mean??
What does CtL + N do?

Thank you-
Vickie

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Rob - I tried that Ctl-N thing while IE had open an .mht file and no
Address toolbar, and the new screen showed the Address toolbar just as
it used to be. What does that mean??
What does CtL + N do?

Ctrl-N is just the keyboard shortcut for File menu item, New, Window.
I call that cloning the window for short.

It means that the first window you are getting is the way that the
web site designers wanted it to appear (or perhaps you previously
opened a window like that and then closed it and now all .mht
windows have that attribute.) The cloned window is the way you want
it to appear. Closing the original window first and then closing your
clone last might help change that behaviour.

Thank you-
Vickie

You're welcome, happy to help.

Robert
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[Robert Aldwinckle]

I tried to follow your suggestion, but I see no means of saving in
.mht format at all. All I saw was .eml and .htm as options when
selecting Save As from one of those two emails in my Inbox.

That's right but it seems to accept .mht as an override to the filename.
BTW I think that that Welcome E-mail would be a good one to test
with since I think that it really is a self-contained HTML document.


Good luck

Robert
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[Vickie]

Thanks, Rob. I tried closing the browser screen with no Address Bar
first, and then closing the one that had the Address bar after doing
CTRL-N. Made no difference. Still opens with no Address Bar.

I tried saving the Welcome to Outlook Express as .mht, but IE still had
no Address bar.

I think the fact that CTRL+N brings up the page with the Address bar
showing is a big clue...to someone...unfortunately not me.

Any ideas?

Thanks again-
Vickie