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Guest
I should be very grateful if anyone could help me resolve an annoying set
of problems that I have recently encountered while using Internet Explorer
6.0. Although I have always used it to my great satisfaction and without
any inconvenience, I now constantly face what can best be described in
these terms:
1. Although most sites I visit are regularly available and open without
any problems (e.g. Microsoft, Macromedia, Adobe, etc.), a number of quite
important websites such as Google, Yahoo and the like are constantly out
of reach, the usual result of my attempts to open those Internet links in
my browser being the title bar which reads "Invalid syntax error" and the
page contents which run as follows:
The page cannot be displayed.
The page you are looking for might have been removed or had its name
changed. [Quite unlikely in this case, I dare say.]
Please try the following:
Open the www.google.com home page, and then look for links to the
information you want.
If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is
spelled correctly. (etc.)
I need not describe in particular how incapacitating it is for me not to
be able to perform any search on Google when in need of a certain piece of
information.
2. When I try to open any Internet link in a new browser window by way of
the context menu, it pops up as it should, but neither does it perform any
action nor is there any text in the address bar; the page remains
completely unresponsive. The situation with the JavaScript generated
pop-up windows is even worse since there is no address bar in them in
which it would at leat be possible to drag and drop a URL and somehow
browse its contents.
3. When I try to download any file by way of the context menu Save Target
As... command, instead of showing the usual dialog box that would offer me
to save or open a file, there appears an alert to this effect: "Your
current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded." I
hardly need mention that my security settings are set to their default
values, and that I have never before encountered a similar problem. It is,
of course, possible to download many files by using any of the download
managers available, but in some cases certain files can only be downloaded
through Internet Explorer, a solution denied me in this case, turning the
whole matter into a true nightmare.
4. A relatively mild annoyance would be the sporadic occurence of the
dialog box that warns me when I am going from one website to another;
although the "Don't show this message again" check-box is ticked, it still
appears sometimes, as if I were using the Internet Explorer for the very
first time.
Perhaps I should mention that no virus or trojan horse was found on my
computer by the antivirus software I use; I also went to the Symantec
website and performed an on-line virus scan to the same effect - no
viruses were found at all. Besides, I regularly take measures to remove
any spyware that might download on my computer while browsing and possibly
alter any settings - nothing of any relevance was found during the hard
drive scan.
I am utterly baffled by this erratic behaviour of my browser and, do what
I may, cannot find any means of restoring its former functionality. I
would rather not format my hard disk as it would entail to much hard work
installing all the software I use, although, if the problem persists, I
must consider it as my last resort. I do hope there might be someone
proficient in these matters who would be willing to offer me a word of
advice so as to resolve this unpleasant situation.
Best Regards
Danijel Stanisic
of problems that I have recently encountered while using Internet Explorer
6.0. Although I have always used it to my great satisfaction and without
any inconvenience, I now constantly face what can best be described in
these terms:
1. Although most sites I visit are regularly available and open without
any problems (e.g. Microsoft, Macromedia, Adobe, etc.), a number of quite
important websites such as Google, Yahoo and the like are constantly out
of reach, the usual result of my attempts to open those Internet links in
my browser being the title bar which reads "Invalid syntax error" and the
page contents which run as follows:
The page cannot be displayed.
The page you are looking for might have been removed or had its name
changed. [Quite unlikely in this case, I dare say.]
Please try the following:
Open the www.google.com home page, and then look for links to the
information you want.
If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is
spelled correctly. (etc.)
I need not describe in particular how incapacitating it is for me not to
be able to perform any search on Google when in need of a certain piece of
information.
2. When I try to open any Internet link in a new browser window by way of
the context menu, it pops up as it should, but neither does it perform any
action nor is there any text in the address bar; the page remains
completely unresponsive. The situation with the JavaScript generated
pop-up windows is even worse since there is no address bar in them in
which it would at leat be possible to drag and drop a URL and somehow
browse its contents.
3. When I try to download any file by way of the context menu Save Target
As... command, instead of showing the usual dialog box that would offer me
to save or open a file, there appears an alert to this effect: "Your
current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded." I
hardly need mention that my security settings are set to their default
values, and that I have never before encountered a similar problem. It is,
of course, possible to download many files by using any of the download
managers available, but in some cases certain files can only be downloaded
through Internet Explorer, a solution denied me in this case, turning the
whole matter into a true nightmare.
4. A relatively mild annoyance would be the sporadic occurence of the
dialog box that warns me when I am going from one website to another;
although the "Don't show this message again" check-box is ticked, it still
appears sometimes, as if I were using the Internet Explorer for the very
first time.
Perhaps I should mention that no virus or trojan horse was found on my
computer by the antivirus software I use; I also went to the Symantec
website and performed an on-line virus scan to the same effect - no
viruses were found at all. Besides, I regularly take measures to remove
any spyware that might download on my computer while browsing and possibly
alter any settings - nothing of any relevance was found during the hard
drive scan.
I am utterly baffled by this erratic behaviour of my browser and, do what
I may, cannot find any means of restoring its former functionality. I
would rather not format my hard disk as it would entail to much hard work
installing all the software I use, although, if the problem persists, I
must consider it as my last resort. I do hope there might be someone
proficient in these matters who would be willing to offer me a word of
advice so as to resolve this unpleasant situation.
Best Regards
Danijel Stanisic
