IE 6 and the proverbial, 'This page cannot be displayed'

[Teflon]

Win 98FE with IE6. Still fighting what seems to a DNS problem in IE 6.
Click on website name, URL makes it to the address line, but page won't
open. Firefox on same machine works fine.

I can't find the thread again, but I tried the following suggestion I
saw here, that was in reference to this problem.

Re-register several dll's via the Run function:

Copy and paste the commands into the RUN window, hit OK.

Regsvr32 SOFTPUB.DLL
Regsvr32 Wintrust.dll
Regsvr32 Initpki.dll
Regsvr32 Dssenh.dll
Regsvr32 Rsaenh.dll
Regsvr32 Gpkcsp.dll
Regsvr32 Sccbase.dll
Regsvr32 Slbcsp.dll
Regsvr32 Mssip32.dll
Regsvr32 Cryptdlg.dll

I did that, but several of these re-registrations failed, specifically;
Dssenh.dll, Gpkcsp.dll, Sccbase.dll and Slbcsp.dll

First question, could these missing dll's be the cause of the 'DNS'
problem?

Second question, do I use SFC to extract and repopulate
c:\Windows\System with these dll's?

While I'm here, several questions about SFC. (I know if you know the
answer to the above, you know the answers to the following.)

Several months ago, I reinstalled Win98FE with the OEM Recovery CD's,
installed all the Win98 updates, got all the apps installed, and took
off some frivelous stuff the vendor had on the Recovery CD. After IE
had its 'problem', I ran SFC and there were a whole lot of files with
new version #'s (some with dates older that the previous version)
asking to have the CRC updated. Any harm in approving all of those
updates?

There were also a fair number of files listed as Corrupted or Missing.
How does one go about determining if a file is really corrupt AND/OR
missing and needs to be replace via an SFC extraction?

Thanks again for all you folks helping me.

 

[Gman]

Win 98FE with IE6. Still fighting what seems to a DNS problem in IE 6.
Click on website name, URL makes it to the address line, but page won't
open. Firefox on same machine works fine.

So, your basically saying that IE is dead in the water? Can't be used?
Kaput?

I thought you said you had a problem.

Thank your lucky stars for whatever caused this good fortune, accept
the small favor and move on.

Since MSFT doesn't support Win98 now, there's no reason to go to the
MSFT Windows Update website, therefore you won't be needing to have IE
running on this machine, now or never, plus, it may be a whole lot more
secure with IE deep-sixed.

Then again, if you're running Win98FE, you probably just like to
tinker, so someone will inevitably drop by to give you some fix
suggestions. Just remember how to undo them, if you actually get them
to work.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Tools | Internet Optios | Settings in the LAN section.
Toggle the setting for Use a proxy.

 

[Teflon]

Tools | Internet Optios | Settings in the LAN section.
Toggle the setting for Use a proxy.

Frank, you are frigging brilliant. That did it. I have no idea how
that box, 'Use a proxy server for your LAN' got checked, cause I have a
cable connection, but after I unchecked it, IE6 worked.

You truly are an MVP, but from being a regular reader of your posts, I
never doubted it fro a minute. You made my day.

Thank you very much.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

YW. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Teflon]

YW. Thanks for the feedback.

OK Frank, next challange for you. When I rebooted, same IE problem
appeared. Checked, and that 'proxy' box was checked, again. Unchecked
it and IE worked.

What could be causing that box to get rechecked on reboot?

I've scanned the bejabbers out of that system in Safe Mode with
everything available. Took off several Alexis irritants, but nothing
major.

Hope you still have that brilliant cap handy.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

In my case it's an update to the software for my satellite connection that
does it. Are you running any software supplied by your ISP?

 

[Guest]

Hi Frank,

I too have the same problem.

I have dial-up, XPsp2, with Norton SystemWorks and on my connections tab the
"dial whenever a network is not present" and LAN proxy server box is checked.
I change them but it always goes back to these settings.

I have run norton and check every entry in task manager and found nothing
unusual.

Dragondust

 

[Teflon]

In my case it's an update to the software for my satellite connection that
does it. Are you running any software supplied by your ISP?

No. However, after I got IE back in operation, I went to the Windows
Update website and scanned my system to see if there were any Critical
Updates for Win98 (old habits die slowly). I was surprised that there
were three. One was the ever popular 823559 (have installed it at
least a dozen times), one was simply called Security Update, March
7,2002 )referred to MS02-014), and one was Cumulative Security Update
for Outlook Express Sp1 KB837009. They had all been installed when I
reinstalled Win98, but I assumed something got screwed up with
something in these on my system and went ahead and applied them again,
then rebooted. Afterward, IE didn't work again, checked the Proxy
setting and the box was checked. Could it have been one of the Windows
updates that put the checkmark back in that box?

I just went to the Windows Update website and did the scan again, and
it came up with the same three 'critical' updates, plus one to install
the Critical Update Notification 4.0. Like anyone needs that anymore
with Win98. Is that what everyone sees now?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

I don't know. I can't think of what it might be, but I don't believe any
Windows Updates did it. They didn't do anything like that here.

 

[Teflon]

Hi Frank,

I too have the same problem.

I have dial-up, XPsp2, with Norton SystemWorks and on my connections tab the
"dial whenever a network is not present" and LAN proxy server box is checked.
I change them but it always goes back to these settings.

I have run norton and check every entry in task manager and found nothing
unusual.

Dustbuster,

Not that I'm anywhere close to being an expert, but I would suspect
that you have another Internet-enabling app that is resetting that
check mark.

I had a similar 'resetting' problem. In my case, IE's Home Page kept
changing after a re-start. After much searching and knashing of teeth,
I finally saw a post on one of these NG's that discussed my
're-setting' problem exactly. The poster had discovered that the Think
Vantage Access Connections utility, installed on IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads,
was the culprit. I checked on the Settings of that utility, saw what
the poster had discovered, changed it, and all worked great after that.
Wish I could tell you what app to look at. Hope you find the problem.

 

[Guest]

Teflon,

I believe you are right. Mine changes every night. I now make a habit of
checking internet options settings every day before I connect to the
internet. My pc is 3 years old and I know it's time for a new one. I think it
might be Norton, but I haven't found it yet.

dragondust

 

[Teflon]

Teflon,

I believe you are right. Mine changes every night.

If you aren't shutting your system down every night, then It could be
one of the apps that is scheduled to regularly perform an automatic
update. Check your Task Scheduler. Turn off the automatic stuff and
do all custom (manual) updating for several days. Did that fix the
problem? If so, it's one of those auto-update apps.

No? If you do turn your system off each night, then it could be one of
the apps that gets run during start-up. Check msconfig for any
Internet-enabled apps that run during start-up. Take them out of the
auto-start, one-by-one, until you find the culprit.

Didn't find one? You're right, time for a new computer.