IE6 does nothing

[Manuel Robles]

I'll appreciate any help. Two weeks ago I re-formatted my HD. Everything was
OK un til today: I noticed that IE does nothing when it's launched. I use
Firefox for surfing the Internet, so I was unaware of this situation.
Outlook, Outlook Express, Firefox and other programs that access Internet
work just fine, but IE. When the IE window is open, only the flag on the
upper right corner moves. The loading progress bar, the security zone icon,
any possible message on the status bar, my home page address, and somer
other thins are missing, and only are shown when i cancel the trasnfer. No
page can be loaded. After I cancel the initial trasnfer, any internet
address i try to go to gives similar results: nothings happens, no trasnfer
progress shown, no messages, no moving flag.

I'm running XP SP2 and IE6 ver 6.0.29.0.2180.xpsp.050301.-1521. My firewall
is confgured to grant full access to IE. As I told you, everything else,
regarding Internet, have no problems, just IE.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Manuel Robles.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

I'll appreciate any help. Two weeks ago I re-formatted my HD. Everything
was OK un til today: I noticed that IE does nothing when it's launched. I
use Firefox for surfing the Internet, so I was unaware of this situation.
Outlook, Outlook Express, Firefox and other programs that access Internet
work just fine, but IE. When the IE window is open, only the flag on the
upper right corner moves. The loading progress bar, the security zone
icon, any possible message on the status bar, my home page address, and
somer other thins are missing, and only are shown when i cancel the
trasnfer. No page can be loaded. After I cancel the initial trasnfer, any
internet address i try to go to gives similar results: nothings happens,
no trasnfer progress shown, no messages, no moving flag.

I'm running XP SP2 and IE6 ver 6.0.29.0.2180.xpsp.050301.-1521. My
firewall is confgured to grant full access to IE. As I told you,
everything else, regarding Internet, have no problems, just IE.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Manuel Robles.

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.