view source

[DM]

My 4 month old computer will not do anything when you
choose view source online. No notepad opens, nothing.
reinstalled ie

Please help

 

[Guest]

Did you do a global search for "notepad.exe" to determine if the utility is in your PC? My problem was NotePad opened, but had nothing in it. I did a search for all occurances of "notepad" and came up with two 65K versions in the c:\windows and c:\program files\internet explorer\connection wizard. There was a third file in c:\windows\system32, but it was only 3K. I opened it with an editor and found an "MZ" file identifier (which means nothing to me). But, renaming this file to "Xnotepad.exe" made the HTML code suddenly reappear when I click on View Source. I have no idea how it got there. I hope this helps.

 

[H Leboeuf]

Just in case this is caused by a virus, check this out. Scan your system for
any other variant.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]
--

If you have created a shortcut on you Desktop named Notepad, rename it
MyNotepad.

Clear the IE cache. I.E./Tools/Options/General/Delete files (and delete
offline content.) It's often recommended that the Temporary Internet Files
(folder) be kept at
40-50 MB. Bigger isn't necessarily better.

Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm
===