Trouble with HyperText Transfer Protocol file associations

[alba1290]

Whenever I view a webpage containing a HyperText Transfer Protocol
file link attached to an image, I cannot follow/access the link.
Instead of the link/image, I have a wee black square surrounding a red
.X’.

Having done some detective work, I find the problem is most likely to
be HyperText Transfer Protocol file type association and I found some
excellent advice at
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/archiv....htm#hyperlinks
where the advice given was >Go to my computer, view/folder
options/file types (or control panel,

folder options depending on your operating system.

Scroll down to the URL:Hypertext Transfer Protocols, click edit twice
and make sure the following is in the application used to perform
action box:

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER\iexplore.exe" -nohome

The same applies for URL:Gopher

DDE should be set to: "%1",,-1,0,,,,
Application should say: IExplore
DDE application not running should be blank
Topic should be: WWW_OpenURL

I tried this reassociation and even deleted the old actions (of
"open") and created new actions bearing the same instructions, but
to no avail. I still cannot access the links or see the images where
the red ’X’ is.

This is most disconcerting as, on my own website, I am unable to view
my counter or my guestbook.

I am running XPSP2 and when I downloaded IE6setup and tried to run it,
I was told that I have a newer version installed and installation
cannot continue. I assume this is because my IE is updated and all
appropriate patches are in place to keep it up to date.

Can anyone please advise on how I can perhaps run a repair on IE6 and
get my HyperText Transfer Protocol file type association back to
normal.

:roll: 8O

N.B.
I’m not sure if this helps matters or not? But I did have Firefox
installed a while ago and it was set as the default browser. I removed
this browser from my PC when it was discovered to have major security
flaws.

 

[Jon Kennedy]

Seeing as you had another browser installed, in IE go to Tools...Internet
Options...Programs tab, click the Reset Web Settings button.

If no joy, here are some image-related troubleshooting sites:

Pictures Are Not Displayed on Web Sites in Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283807

If no joy, see this site for possible help:
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/archive/answers.htm#jpg_gif

If still no joy....

How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in Windows
XP (Q318378)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q318378

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

....

Can anyone please advise on how I can perhaps run a repair on IE6 and
get my HyperText Transfer Protocol file type association back to
normal.

You can only repair IE6 under XP in the standard KB194177 way
*if* you have setupwbv.dll from IE6sp1 which would have to have
been installed before XP was upgraded to XPsp1 or XPsp2.

Otherwise the only thing close for an XPsp2 user would be uninstalling
XPsp2 (thereby losing also all its maintenance) and then reinstalling
XPsp2 and all subsequent updates.

The biggest subset of the old repair (implied by its fixie.inf) in one
official place is the list of regsvr32 commands listed in KB831429.
(Ignore the article title and the section that you find the commands
listed under and if you don't have msjava.dll don't worry if that one
fails.) Non-NT5x lurkers should also note that the same commands
could be used by them for a partial repair too (if for some reason they
didn't want to use their setupwbv.dll) except for the one with shell32.dll
Note that neither msjava.dll nor shell32.dll are referred to by fixie.inf.

BTW I do not believe that sfc /scannow does anything useful
unless perhaps when modules need replacing, in which case perhaps
something equivalent to a regsvr32 /i command would then be done.
I do not recommend deleting modules just in order to try this feature
but that conceivably might work better. Fortunately sfc pulls modules
from other sources than just the dllcache so deleting one and making
sfc restore it wouldn't necessarily regress its version all the way to the
base module on the CD.

XPsp2 has a (now undocumented) command-line option which is
demonstrably inadequate but which is still available in case somebody
wants to try it FWIW:

iexplore.exe /rereg


BTW I think you get another subset of the the above subset with the
Reset Web Settings command that Jon suggested.
The way to check exactly what it does would be to Run... RegMon
filtering on SetValue while the various repair options were tried.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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