IE6 no longer loads any pages

[Guest]

Hi Jim,
We also have the same problem. But the typical thing is that it does load
https sites. All the rest not. And also no pictures in Outlook 2003 (emails).
And Windows Live Messenger also is not working, and Weather Watcher...

For windows update though we have a solution. We use Maxthon
(www.maxthon.com) as a default browser, and windows update accepts it.
Maxthon uses the IE engine, that's why.

It really is a strange problem. We have three computers at home, and only
one has this problem. It's the one with XP Pro...

We have decided to live with it, for time being. Hopefully sometime there
will be a fix available.

Mormeltje, the Netherlands

The same symptoms as me including working with https. This info should help
a Microsoft professional isolate the problem.

 

[Guest]

I have passed this information on the the Microsoft Windows
Support Professional that is helping me to seek a solution to this problem.
Maybe I will share the news that my IE-6 is also fixed one day - hope, hope,
hope!

I'm glad you are corresponding with a MS professional as I haven't had the
time. Any common symptoms will help them isolate a possible cause. I look
forward (hopefully) to hearing of a solution if you can post it to this
thread.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

It is a strange one isn't it, Jim? For me, IE6 actually started working
again for about two weeks and then back to not working. I had done nothing
that I was aware of to make it work or not work. As I have never had this
problem with Windows XP and rarely install anything but stuff I need for work
(very stable software) I can only assume that a Windows Update is
responsible. I have no idea which, though. (This is the biggest argument, in
my opinion, for not embedding browsers in the operating system). The way I
know to definitely resolve it is to do a complete re-install of the OS as
none of the other suggestions have worked in my case.

IE6 started working again today for some reason. I haven't done anything to
fix it but now it is loading pages normally. This has happened before but I
expect that in a few days/a week or so it will go back to not loading them as
before also. I hope it doesn't.