Think I have a javascript problem....

[balemsass]

I had a perfectly working IE6 on XP-Pro system until I
decided to replace my Visual Studio 97 with VS6
yesterday. Since then many links and objects no longer
work. I have noticed that very often these non-
functioning items display "javascript: blah-blah-blah" on
the IE6 status bar. In fact, the buttons on this very
message panel don't work. (Had to move to my kids PC to
send this.) Also, pop-ups on pages I expect to get pop-
ups on don't pop-up anymore. (I don't use a pop-up
blocker. - Don't get out much, I guess.) Any idea of
what's going on here? I've searched the Knowledgebase
without much success and been over my options and security
settings more than once. Thanks. -jpw

 

[Michael Gipters]

I have the same problem. Does anyone have an answer? If you get one
pleaese send on.

thanks,
Michael

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

I had a perfectly working IE6 on XP-Pro system until I
decided to replace my Visual Studio 97 with VS6
yesterday. Since then many links and objects no longer
work. I have noticed that very often these non-
functioning items display "javascript: blah-blah-blah" on
the IE6 status bar. In fact, the buttons on this very
message panel don't work. (Had to move to my kids PC to
send this.) Also, pop-ups on pages I expect to get pop-
ups on don't pop-up anymore. (I don't use a pop-up
blocker. - Don't get out much, I guess.) Any idea of
what's going on here? I've searched the Knowledgebase
without much success and been over my options and security
settings more than once. Thanks. -jpw

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/IE/scriptdb.htm

Go to Tools | Internet Options | Advanced.
Check the box to Disable script debugging.
Uncheck the box to Display a notification about every script error.

You might want to refresh your scripting engine:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28001169
or
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/webdev.asp
Windows Script 5.6 for Windows 2000 and XP
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...43-7e4b-4622-86eb-95a22b832caa&DisplayLang=en

Sometimes there's a corrupt file in the cache and one must go to Tools |
Internet Options and click Delete Files.

If that doesn't fix it try renaming MDM.EXE

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[A2Tech]

Reinstalling the scripting engine worked for me!

This should be in a KnowledgeBase article if it isn;t
already (I didn't find one).

Thank You!
A2Tech

 

[Guest]

No resolution possibilities discussed here (and some
others I've tried since) helped with this problem, until
I saw this on the support site and tried it. It was a
total fix:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679

Thanks for everyone's help, though. -jpw