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Okay I'm not exactly sure what I did... but somehow I inadvertantly caused my
IE (version 6) to quit working properly.
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The Problem: When I open IE, it sits patiently at my homepage
(about:blank). But if I type a URL into the address bar, as soon as I click
GO or press ENTER, it opens a new window of IE, and goes to the page I
wanted. What gives? I'm using FireFox to post this now, by the way.
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How I broke it and what I've tried so far:
Okay here's what I did: I'm at a coffee shop working on a project with a
friend. He discovers I have a folder in my My Docs folder called Downloads,
and I explained I kept a lot of the programs or at least install executables
of what I downloaded. Within that folder was also a copy of the download
from a few months back of the first IE 7 beta. It didn't even have an
install program -- it was just a folder with lots of files. One of which
was, of course, iexplore.exe.
I said "It was really quite similar to the Beta 2 you have now. Here,
look:" and I doubleclick on that executable.
It didn't open. I got an error about a bad pointer or something, and it
closed.
Whatever, I didn't care. Later though I realize that my IE (6) hangs when
it opens. Have to end the process with Task Manager. I thought maybe it
just needed a reboot.
Didn't help.
Well I tried to fix it by running System File Checker (prompted for Windows
XP SP2 disc, and I popped in my OS CD). It finished, I rebooted, and now it
has the problem described above.
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Any ideas?
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Shawn
IE (version 6) to quit working properly.
_________________
The Problem: When I open IE, it sits patiently at my homepage
(about:blank). But if I type a URL into the address bar, as soon as I click
GO or press ENTER, it opens a new window of IE, and goes to the page I
wanted. What gives? I'm using FireFox to post this now, by the way.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
How I broke it and what I've tried so far:
Okay here's what I did: I'm at a coffee shop working on a project with a
friend. He discovers I have a folder in my My Docs folder called Downloads,
and I explained I kept a lot of the programs or at least install executables
of what I downloaded. Within that folder was also a copy of the download
from a few months back of the first IE 7 beta. It didn't even have an
install program -- it was just a folder with lots of files. One of which
was, of course, iexplore.exe.
I said "It was really quite similar to the Beta 2 you have now. Here,
look:" and I doubleclick on that executable.
It didn't open. I got an error about a bad pointer or something, and it
closed.
Whatever, I didn't care. Later though I realize that my IE (6) hangs when
it opens. Have to end the process with Task Manager. I thought maybe it
just needed a reboot.
Didn't help.
Well I tried to fix it by running System File Checker (prompted for Windows
XP SP2 disc, and I popped in my OS CD). It finished, I rebooted, and now it
has the problem described above.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Any ideas?
___________________
Shawn