URGENT - Can't save web pages after running April Windows updates

V

Valery

I need to save web pages to disk as part of my consulting job. I need
to be able to save as .mht and as complete web pages.

After running the windows update for April, I have lost my ability to
do this. The progress meter goes all the way across, then I receive a
critical stop error, "The web page could not be saved to the selected
location".

This worked great with no issues before running the April Windows
updates.

I need to get this back up and running ASAP. It must work in IE. I
particularly need the ability to save .mht files back. I need ANYTHING
that will work... a hack, crack, ANYTHING, I am desperate...
 
K

Kevin

Valery said:
I need to save web pages to disk as part of my consulting job. I need
to be able to save as .mht and as complete web pages.

After running the windows update for April, I have lost my ability to
do this. The progress meter goes all the way across, then I receive a
critical stop error, "The web page could not be saved to the selected
location".

This worked great with no issues before running the April Windows
updates.

I need to get this back up and running ASAP. It must work in IE. I
particularly need the ability to save .mht files back. I need ANYTHING
that will work... a hack, crack, ANYTHING, I am desperate...
Click to expand...

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Item 222, right side. Hope this works for you. If not, try the Microsoft
website.
 
G

Gary Smith

For what it's worth, I can't save those pages either, and it's not because
of the April update. I haven't installed any of the April updates yet.
IE6 SP1 on Win2000.
 
P

PA Bear

To keep track of things, it helps immensely if you include all of previous
message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup. I have no idea what you stated
in your original post, including your Windows version.

Thank you.

See if anything in these archived threads help at all:
http://tinyurl.com/l57nz
 
G

Gary Smith

Your posting style makes this difficult to do in some cases. Many news
readers will stop quoting the message being replied to when they encounter
a signature separator, which is a line containing precisely "-- " (hyphen,
hyphen, space). When that separator appears in the middle of a message,
everthing that follows is dropped. It's a fairly tedious operation to go
back to the previous message, copy everything, and paste it into the
response.


PA Bear said:
To keep track of things, it helps immensely if you include all of previous
message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup. I have no idea what you stated
in your original post, including your Windows version.
Click to expand...
 
G

Gary Smith

I did some further testing on my system and discovered that the problem is
apparently related to the security settings. Adding the site to the
Trusted Zone enabled me to save the page successfully. Try doing that and
see whether it works for you. If it does, there's probably a setting that
can be changed to make it work in the Internet Zone.


Previous conversation partially reconstructed:
For what it's worth, I can't save those pages either, and it's not
because of the April update. I haven't installed any of the April
updates yet. IE6 SP1 on Win2000.
Click to expand...

Before that said:
I need to save web pages to disk as part of my consulting job. I need
to be able to save as .mht and as complete web pages.
Click to expand...
After running the windows update for April, I have lost my ability to
do this. The progress meter goes all the way across, then I receive a
critical stop error, "The web page could not be saved to the selected
location".
Click to expand...
 
L

Larry

Gary, when I tried to put http://www.cnet.com in my trusted sites, I got a
message saying that only https sites could be added. How do I handle that? I
tried just adding the s to the address, but that didn't work.
Larry
 
V

Valery

Thanks for doing further testing.

I actually already tried this. Adding sites which can not be saved to
the trusted sites zone does not solve the problem.

I am running:

Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2980.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519
Cipher Strength: 128-bit
Update Versions:; SP2;

Windows XP Professional 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 (Service Pack 2)

I suspect you are getting different results because you are running
Windows 2000.
 
V

Valery

Gary Smith said:
For what it's worth, I can't save those pages either, and it's not because
of the April update. I haven't installed any of the April updates yet.
IE6 SP1 on Win2000.
Click to expand...

I am running:

Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2980.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519
Cipher Strength: 128-bit
Update Versions:; SP2;

Windows XP Professional 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 (Service Pack 2)
 
L

Larry

OK, I unchecked it and was able to add cnet.com, but I still couldn't save a
webpage.Note, I had been saving web pages from this site regularly up til a
couple of weeks ago.
Larry
 
V

Valery

Larry said:
OK, I unchecked it and was able to add cnet.com, but I still couldn't save a
webpage.Note, I had been saving web pages from this site regularly up til a
couple of weeks ago.
Larry
Click to expand...

Looks like this is unfixable. Microsoft screwed us. In my case
bigtime.

-------------------------

from 4-26-06 reply:
where i'm at now:
i installed the 912812 update on my machine. the other machines already had
it. i checked various web sites on all machines to see if they'd save.
i NOW realize, that after 912812 was installed, on all machines, only some
web pages can't be saved in the complete & archive format. [...]
msn.com is one that can't be saved.
Click to expand...

Aha, I can repro that for msn.com - hm, me thinks, that's some kind of
bug
which happens on sites which don't use relative but absoulte paths for
CSS
style sheet. We've seen that in previous versions of IE too, depending
on
the Windows version.

Looking at the source code of that site, you'll find
<style type="text/css">@import
url("http://stc.msn.com/br/ushp/css/2/USHP.css")
and so on. That would support the theory above.

I'm sorry to say, that you're stuck with that for the time beeing -
until
this may be fixed "by accident" in an future update.
 
V

Valery

After reading one of the other posts, it looks like this is unfixable.
Microsoft screwed us. In my case bigtime.

-------------------------

from 4-26-06 reply:
where i'm at now:
i installed the 912812 update on my machine. the other machines already had
it. i checked various web sites on all machines to see if they'd save.
i NOW realize, that after 912812 was installed, on all machines, only some
web pages can't be saved in the complete & archive format. [...]
msn.com is one that can't be saved.
Click to expand...

Aha, I can repro that for msn.com - hm, me thinks, that's some kind of
bug
which happens on sites which don't use relative but absoulte paths for
CSS
style sheet. We've seen that in previous versions of IE too, depending
on
the Windows version.

Looking at the source code of that site, you'll find
<style type="text/css">@import
url("http://stc.msn.com/br/ushp/css/2/USHP.css")
and so on. That would support the theory above.

I'm sorry to say, that you're stuck with that for the time beeing -
until
this may be fixed "by accident" in an future update.
 
G

Gary Smith

Evidently the cause of the problem is differnet in your case than in mine.
Given the timing of the change in behavior, I suspect that one of the
security updates is at fault. Have you tried removing the recent ones to
see if that makes a difference? I think I probably won't put any more
updates on this system, although the latest changes do seem to be hitting
XP harder than 2K.


Larry said:
OK, I unchecked it and was able to add cnet.com, but I still couldn't save a
webpage.Note, I had been saving web pages from this site regularly up til a
couple of weeks ago.
Larry
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