IE Won't connect, Firefox works, Tried Reinstalling

[Alcetic]

Hi guys, I have a problem with the embedded players in firefox,
everytime it loads it goes opening media...connecting...and then Ready.
But it just stops there, and won't play. If I click on the play button,
it'll just say ready but still won't play. I have checked to see if it
was a problem with the embeded firefox player but its not, since I am
not missing any of the .dll files. I read somewhere that it has
something to do with not being able to connect to the internet with
Internet Explorer, and indeed when I loaded up my IE, it would not
connect to any site and just stays blank. I've tried everything to try
and get IE connecting to the internet, (reinstalling) but it still
won't connect. Has anyone encountered a similar problem and would like
to help me out please?? Thanks so much!

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

Hi guys, I have a problem with the embedded players in firefox,
everytime it loads it goes opening media...connecting...and then Ready.
But it just stops there, and won't play. If I click on the play button,
it'll just say ready but still won't play. I have checked to see if it
was a problem with the embeded firefox player but its not, since I am
not missing any of the .dll files. I read somewhere that it has
something to do with not being able to connect to the internet with
Internet Explorer, and indeed when I loaded up my IE, it would not
connect to any site and just stays blank. I've tried everything to try
and get IE connecting to the internet, (reinstalling) but it still
won't connect. Has anyone encountered a similar problem and would like
to help me out please?? Thanks so much!

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm

1. Click Start, and then click Run.

2. In the Open box, type:

regsvr32 urlmon.dll

3. Click OK, and then click OK again when you receive the following message:

DllRegisterServer in urlmon.dll succeeded.


4. If that doesn't fix it, see this article:

http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/26.html

5. If you are using WinXP try this:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/reg/IE_Default_Browser.reg

6. See Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 may display a blank Web page
after you select Auto-Select encoding
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/870863

You can also try this:

Go to Start/run, and type SFC (msconfig for WinXP).
Choose 'Extract One File From Installation Disk' ("Expand File" for WinXP).
Type oleaut32.dll, not worrying about its location. Then, click Start.

Next to 'Restore From', type in or browse for the file's location, which is
probably in the Win98 (i386 for WinXP) folder of your installation CD-ROM
(typically D:\Win98), or in your Windows\Options\Cabs (Windows\i386 for
WinXP) folder, as the case may be.

Then, next to 'Save File In', enter C:\Windows\System (C:\Windows\System32
for WinXP), and click OK. System File Checker (or msconfig) looks for the
file, saves it as you requested, and then tells you that 'the file has been
successfully extracted'.

You may need to reboot.