Can't View Source on web pages anymore

[Scot]

When I right mouse click on a web page, almost all pages,
and then pick "View Source", nothing happens. I'm doing
it on pages that formerly worked fine.

I recently changed some security settings but don't
remember all of them. Any suggestions how to be able to
view source code again?

Thanks,

Scot

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

When I right mouse click on a web page, almost all pages,
and then pick "View Source", nothing happens. I'm doing
it on pages that formerly worked fine.

I recently changed some security settings but don't
remember all of them. Any suggestions how to be able to
view source code again?

Thanks,

Scot

This is usually fixed by emptying the Temporary Internet Files.

Also, if you have a shortcut to Notepad on your desktop rename it to Npad.

Some people have reported that Quick View Plus can cause this.

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[Guest]

Scot,
Reading your post reminded me that this also happened to me right after I did a bunch of updates for Windows, IE, etc. (Security? Ha!).

Some of the newsgroup replies speak of clearing cache, temporary files, messing with the Registry, etc., to fix this problem, but I do most of that regularly, and NotePad always opened with the desired HTML code. Suddenly, NotePad opened with nothing in the page. (Thanks, Bill Gates, for all those "updates")

Try this: Make sure that "notepad.exe" is present in your PC. I did a search for all occurances of "notepad" and came up with two 65K versions in the c:\windows and c:\program files\internet explorer\connection wizard. There was a third file in c:\windows\system32, but it was only 3K. I opened it with an editor and found an "MZ" file identifier (which means nothing to me). But, renaming this file to "Xnotepad.exe" made the HTML code suddenly reappear when I click on View Source. This anomaly just seemed to happen, and I have no idea how it got there.

I hope this helps.