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I've just come back from a week away, and have been told by the wife that the computer "went funny" while I was gone (Yeah, I know, try uninstalling wife).

Anyway, I'm running 98SE and IE6. when I fire up IE everything is alright. However when I try to open a link in a separate window the window opens but nothing loads into that window. I have run Spybot, which found a bit of alexia, and AdAware which found more alexia.
I ran AVG which found nothing, ALTHOUGH for shell32.dll it says CHANGE in the result/infection column.
I tried to run windows update which says I now have 3 critical updates to download but when I try to do this the download window pops up but nothing downloads. if I close the download box I am then asked to send an error report to Microsoft.
I tried reinstalling IE6 which seems to go ok but still end up with the problem.
As I said I've been away so am not sure what's going on the web (bugs, viruses etc).
So if anyone could point me in the direction of some diagnostic software, or some advice from personal experience I would be grateful (very very very grateful).

TIA
Dave
 
Anyway, I'm running 98SE and IE6. when I fire up IE everything is alright.
However when I try to open a link in a separate window the window opens but
nothing loads into that window. I have run Spybot, which found a bit of
alexia, and AdAware which found more alexia. I ran AVG which found nothing,
ALTHOUGH for shell32.dll it says CHANGE in the result/infection column.
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Try to open a link in the second window again. This time, in the
second window, click the STOP button, then the REFRESH button. If the
page now displays in the second window you can use this as a
workaround until you repair the problem.
The most common repair for a blank second window is to download a
file called MCREPAIR.EXE, run it and reboot. Before running it back
up these 4 files (just in case):

C:\Windows\System\Asycfilt.dll
C:\Windows\System\Oleaut32.dll
C:\Windows\System\Olepro32.dll
C:\Windows\System\Stdole2.tlb

<http://download.microsoft.com/download/msninvestor/patch/1.0/win98/en-us/mcrepair.exe>
 
I've just come back from a week away, and have been told by the wife that the computer "went funny" while I was gone (Yeah, I know, try uninstalling wife).
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Anyway, I'm running 98SE
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Run your System File Checker and see if that helps.

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I've just come back from a week away, and have been told by the wife
that the computer "went funny" while I was gone (Yeah, I know, try
uninstalling wife).
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Maybe better to upgrade from Wife 1.0 to Wife 2.0
Worked well for me ;)
 
It may well be you have some lingering adware/spyware/malware. Boot up in
safe mode and try running your anti-spyware programs then.


I've just come back from a week away, and have been told by the wife that
the computer "went funny" while I was gone (Yeah, I know, try uninstalling
wife).

Anyway, I'm running 98SE and IE6. when I fire up IE everything is alright.
However when I try to open a link in a separate window the window opens but
nothing loads into that window. I have run Spybot, which found a bit of
alexia, and AdAware which found more alexia.
I ran AVG which found nothing, ALTHOUGH for shell32.dll it says CHANGE in
the result/infection column.
I tried to run windows update which says I now have 3 critical updates to
download but when I try to do this the download window pops up but nothing
downloads. if I close the download box I am then asked to send an error
report to Microsoft.
I tried reinstalling IE6 which seems to go ok but still end up with the
problem.
As I said I've been away so am not sure what's going on the web (bugs,
viruses etc).
So if anyone could point me in the direction of some diagnostic software, or
some advice from personal experience I would be grateful (very very very
grateful).

TIA
Dave
 
Doc said:
Maybe better to upgrade from Wife 1.0 to Wife 2.0
Worked well for me ;)
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Not for me. I went from 1.0, uninstalled, and then wife 2.0. Re-formatted
and went back to 1.45.
 
dak said:
Try to open a link in the second window again. This time, in the
second window, click the STOP button, then the REFRESH button. If the
page now displays in the second window you can use this as a
workaround until you repair the problem.
The most common repair for a blank second window is to download a
file called MCREPAIR.EXE, run it and reboot. Before running it back
up these 4 files (just in case):

C:\Windows\System\Asycfilt.dll
C:\Windows\System\Oleaut32.dll
C:\Windows\System\Olepro32.dll
C:\Windows\System\Stdole2.tlb

<http://download.microsoft.com/download/msninvestor/patch/1.0/win98/en-us/mcrepair.exe>
Click to expand...


Thanks Dak thats done the trick just fine, much appreciated.
Dave.
 
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