IE6 locks up when opening links

[Robert Bidwell]

After installing updated video/audio drivers and
WinDVR/Sonic MyDVD and Adaptec USB2 card, there seemed to
be a knock-on effect within IE. Now, whenever I try to
open a HTTP-type link within a website, IE just opens an
outline frame of a new, smaller IE window and freezes
itself at that point. Running XP Pro with IE6/SP1. Basic
websites open, but any links within them are
inaccessible. I even had to use MSN Explorer to access
this support group. When trying to re-install IE from the
downloaded IE6 setup program, it just tells me I have the
most up to date version. Resetting web settings has no
effect. I tried to repair IE6 by going: Start/Run
rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance, but got the message
Error loading setupwbv.dll. The specified module could
not be found. Don't know if this is relevant, or if this
fix relates only to earlier versions of Windows. Aaaagh !!

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I tried to repair IE6 by going: Start/Run

rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance, but got the message
Error loading setupwbv.dll. The specified module could
not be found.

Robert, unfortunately most XP users no longer have that module
so they can no longer do an IE Repair.

For an inferior alternative here is an excerpt from a previous reply:

<excerpt>
FWIW this is a list of commands created by extracting from fixie.inf
what an IE Repair would do for Windows 2000 users:

regsvr32 /i browseui.dll
regsvr32 /i shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 /i mshtml.dll
regsvr32 mshtmled.dll
regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 /i urlmon.dll

What that represents is the set of re-registrations which
FixIE.inf indicates would be done for Base.W2K.AddReg

N.B. that neither mshtmled.dll nor actxprxy.dll have an entry point
called DllInstall and hence the /i option can not be used for them.

Neither msjava.dll nor shell32.dll are referred to by FixIE.inf
but those are two other modules which are often suggested to XP users
as needing re-registration for repairing in various circumstances.

Note that such re-registrations are normally done by an IE Repair
during a boot while nothing is running so at the very least I think
that it would be best to ensure that iexplore.exe is not active in your
task list. (Close all visible IE windows and then check that the
iexplore.exe is not in the list of Processes in Task Manager.
Ctrl-Shift-Esc,Ctrl-Tab,i,i,...)
</excerpt>


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle