Dialog boxes close automatically.

[Branden Wolner]

Hi,

I've been having this problem for a while. For example, when I get a "Done
but with errors on page" message in the IE status bar and click it, the
error dialog box opens and closes immediately, preventing me from clicking
the "more information" button. Same thing happens any time a dialog box
pops up in IE. This did not used to happen. The only change that I can
think of is that I switched from FAT32 to NTFS (win2k sp3, IE6.0 sp1). I
have spybot-s&d installed but I had that before the file system switch and
this didn't happen. Also I have pop-up-stopper pro but I've had that for a
long time too and even when I turn it off (or allow a particular site) the
IE dialog boxes still close automatically. I searched the KB and couldn't
turn anything up. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Ray at]

Perhaps the item you're clicking on does not require a double click and you
also have Snap To enabled for your mouse. So, while it seems that you're
just double clicking on the error indicator, you're actually clicking once
on that, the dialog appears, your mouse cursor snaps to the default button
in the dialog, and then your second click is recognized.

Ray at work

 

[Branden Wolner]

Perhaps the item you're clicking on does not require a double click
and you also have Snap To enabled for your mouse. So, while it seems
that you're just double clicking on the error indicator, you're
actually clicking once on that, the dialog appears, your mouse cursor
snaps to the default button in the dialog, and then your second click
is recognized.

Ray at work

A good thought but I don't have snap-to set and a single click does not
even open the dialog box at all. Thanks though.

 

[Branden Wolner]

A good thought but I don't have snap-to set and a single click does not
even open the dialog box at all. Thanks though.

After grappling with this for the past several weeks, I decided to do an
in-place upgrade of win2k. That seems to have cured it.