Help! Discuss button in IE6 issue

[NNichols]

I have a user with Windows 2000 Professional with IE6 SP1 who clicked
the icon on the tool bar
that said 'discuss'. They haven't been able to do anything with IE
since. It will load
their default page but after that all they get when trying to do
anything on the IE window is a 'bell'
sound. This includes right click functions as well. Just above the task
bar,
another bar has appeared which presumably is part of this 'discuss'
function.
The bar, reading from left to right has an 'X', which is presumably for

closing it, then the word 'Discussions' and then six icons which I have

never seen before.
Is there anyone in the group that has come across this before and if so
can
they still remember the fix. I can't even access the IE Help, Tools or
anything in the IE window. My Task Bar and Start menu are still
functioning
but in order to shutdown IE I have to invoke the Ctrl-Alt-Delete
function. I
have tried rebooting via the Restart and also Shutdown routines but
with no
luck. Help urgently requested as I cannot access the Internet at all.
I am unable to use the view option in the toolbar to uncheck
discuss.... so I'm stuck.
Any help would be appreciated.

Najla Nichols

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi Nichols,

Start Internet Options from the Control Panel...
Start>Settings>Control Panel>Internet Options
On the Advanced tab uncheck 'Enable third-party browser extensions'..

Save your changes.

You should now be able to start IE without it freezing up.

Removing the Discussion bar from you computer

1. There is a setting in gpedit to hide the discussion bar option... (not
sure where it is ... have a look)

2. Registry removal.
(a) Find the CLSID entry for the bar under HKCR\CLSID.... either search for
'Discuss' or a CLSID value like 'BDEADE7F' (full clsid omitted here)

Note the CLSID value, you will use it to find the button extensions in IE.

Delete the CLSID entry for the discussion bar. (no need to unregister any
dll's)

(b) Now continue searching through the registry for instances of the CLSID
value of the discussion bar in all fields of the registry......
This should take you to the button entries for the toolbar under either
HKCU\Software.....\Internet Explorer\Extensions
or
HKLM\.........

Delete those entries from the registry to remove the buttons from the
buttons toolbar and the IE menus.

(c) Reboot the computer..... (the discussion bar will still appear in the
Explorer Bars menu until reboot.)

(d) You can go back now to the Advanced tab of Internet Options and enable
your 'Third-party browser extensions.'

That should save your a....

Next time pay someone who knows what they are doing.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

I have a user with Windows 2000 Professional with IE6 SP1 who clicked
the icon on the tool bar
that said 'discuss'. They haven't been able to do anything with IE
since. It will load
their default page but after that all they get when trying to do
anything on the IE window is a 'bell'
sound. This includes right click functions as well. Just above the task
bar,
another bar has appeared which presumably is part of this 'discuss'
function.
The bar, reading from left to right has an 'X', which is presumably for

closing it, then the word 'Discussions' and then six icons which I have

never seen before.
Is there anyone in the group that has come across this before and if so
can
they still remember the fix. I can't even access the IE Help, Tools or
anything in the IE window. My Task Bar and Start menu are still
functioning
but in order to shutdown IE I have to invoke the Ctrl-Alt-Delete
function. I
have tried rebooting via the Restart and also Shutdown routines but
with no
luck. Help urgently requested as I cannot access the Internet at all.
I am unable to use the view option in the toolbar to uncheck
discuss.... so I'm stuck.
Any help would be appreciated.

Najla Nichols

The Discuss button is put there by Microsoft Office. See help in Office.