How Fix Minor Corruption in IE6?

[Joseph Carrier]

I'm running Win XP(home) with the SP2 patch. I recently configured a
NetGear router on my desktop and the process seems to have resulted in the
corruption of a couple of URL's that I can no longer access using the
desktop.

Here's what happened: Installing and configuring the router involved using a
Net Gear CD, the Net Gear Web site. Once the initial installation changed
the Router's factory settings, it was then necessary to "log in" to the CD
to make any further changes in settings. when trying to access the
settings, a login window popped up, and simply typing "admin" in the user
line and "password" in password line. returned me to the settings pages. The
process also involved activating the web site for testing purposes and I
clicked on the Google News Icon on my Google tool bar for that purpose.

It took many resettings to achieve the configuration I wanted and match up
the Router and my laptop's PC wireless adapter. In that process, something
got corrupted on the desktop. Now, I have a well functioning LAN, but
whenever I try to go to Google News on my desktop machine, that NetGear
"log in" box pops up and I can't get to the Google News page -- only back to
the Router settings. Furthermore, that same "log in" box pops up whenever I
visit the NetGear web site. So I cannot use my desktop for those two sites;
instead, I have to boot up my laptop to access them.

It appears to me that something in IE6 was corrupted in my hours of
experimenting to get the router configured and the wireless LAN installed
and working. The only obvious symptom is the inappropriate pop up of the
NetGear log in window when I try to access Google News and the NetGear
website on my desktop. There may be others, but they haven't shown up yet.
If any reader has a different idea about what's going on, I would like to
hear it.

I wary about trying to un- and re-install IE6 -- especially now that I have
SP2 installed and I've heard that it makes the reinstallation procedure very
tricky, if not impossible.

Does anyone have any ideas of things I might try to get rid of this
annoyance, short of a reinstallation of IE6? Would a reinstallation even be
possible on a WinXP SP2 machine?

 

[Dave Senior]

This should be easy. What seems to have happened is that “TARGET” of the shortcut has changed. This is, you guessed it, in the SHORTCUT tab if it doesn’t open automatically when you follow action 1 given below. I suggest do this:

On the Google’s shortcut on the desktop, right-click on it. In the target box enter:

http:/www.google.com

Click OK

Now do the same with Netgear’s shortcut. I don’t know the website of Netgear but it might be something like this:

http://www.netgear.com

If it is not the one you want then please free to change it as you feel necessary.

Hope this resolves the problem. If not comeback again and somebody may suggest something else.

Best regards,

I'm running Win XP(home) with the SP2 patch. I recently configured a
NetGear router on my desktop and the process seems to have resulted in the
corruption of a couple of URL's that I can no longer access using the
desktop.

Here's what happened: Installing and configuring the router involved using a
Net Gear CD, the Net Gear Web site. Once the initial installation changed
the Router's factory settings, it was then necessary to "log in" to the CD
to make any further changes in settings. when trying to access the
settings, a login window popped up, and simply typing "admin" in the user
line and "password" in password line. returned me to the settings pages. The
process also involved activating the web site for testing purposes and I
clicked on the Google News Icon on my Google tool bar for that purpose.

It took many resettings to achieve the configuration I wanted and match up
the Router and my laptop's PC wireless adapter. In that process, something
got corrupted on the desktop. Now, I have a well functioning LAN, but
whenever I try to go to Google News on my desktop machine, that NetGear
"log in" box pops up and I can't get to the Google News page -- only back to
the Router settings. Furthermore, that same "log in" box pops up whenever I
visit the NetGear web site. So I cannot use my desktop for those two sites;
instead, I have to boot up my laptop to access them.

It appears to me that something in IE6 was corrupted in my hours of
experimenting to get the router configured and the wireless LAN installed
and working. The only obvious symptom is the inappropriate pop up of the
NetGear log in window when I try to access Google News and the NetGear
website on my desktop. There may be others, but they haven't shown up yet.
If any reader has a different idea about what's going on, I would like to
hear it.

I wary about trying to un- and re-install IE6 -- especially now that I have
SP2 installed and I've heard that it makes the reinstallation procedure very
tricky, if not impossible.

Does anyone have any ideas of things I might try to get rid of this
annoyance, short of a reinstallation of IE6? Would a reinstallation even be
possible on a WinXP SP2 machine?

--
I use non Microsoft products wherever possible which requires no activation.

I use Netscape 7.2 as my default browser which has everything I need for my work.

I believe in good Financial Management!! I do not believe in enriching rich jerks!

 

[Joseph Carrier]

Thanks for responding Dave.

What you suggest would most likely have worked. I'm almost embarrassed to
admit that the problem cleared itself up. Last night, I did my once-a-week
shut down of the computer. When I booted up this morning, I discovered that
pesky NetGear pop-up window was gone.

I had forgotten that Step One in trying to resolve odd computer problems is
to reboot the machine.

Best regards,
Joe