viewing source

[R. Tyler]

Along with my previous post of not able to download excel
or pdf files or IE 6 or any programs.... around the same
time (this issue developed)... I can no longer right click
a webpage & select "view source". I never had any problems
seeing the html before.

I don't know if the 2 issues are somehow related to a
configuration change (I did not make any changes), but I
would be grateful to a solution. Please e-mail me:
(e-mail address removed)

If you have had technical problems before then, you know
how frustrated I feel.

Thank you,
R. Tyler

 

[Charlie Tame]

Given the combination I'd say clear temporary files.... IE tool>internet
options>general tab and use the buttons provided there.

Also remove any shortcut to notepad on your desktop, or rename it to
something other than "Notepad" like Npad or whatever.

Charlie

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Along with my previous post of not able to download excel
or pdf files or IE 6 or any programs.... around the same
time (this issue developed)... I can no longer right click
a webpage & select "view source". I never had any problems
seeing the html before.

I don't know if the 2 issues are somehow related to a
configuration change (I did not make any changes), but I
would be grateful to a solution. Please e-mail me:
(e-mail address removed)

If you have had technical problems before then, you know
how frustrated I feel.

Thank you,
R. Tyler

This is usually fixed by emptying the Temporary Internet Files.

Also, if you have a shortcut to Notepad on your desktop rename it to Npad.

Some people have reported that Quick View Plus can cause this.

 

[Guest]

Dear Frank,

Is Quick View Plus a file from Quicktime?

I found a file with a recent modified date by searching
files with the text containing Quick View Plus. It found a
user.dat file located in Windows folder. The date shows
that it was modified today, however I didn't make any
changes. I am not familiar with the .dat extension, but it
is in the windows folder. It was the only file that was
found when I did a search for text in drive C.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Rick

Some people have reported that Quick View Plus can cause

this.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Dear Frank,

Is Quick View Plus a file from Quicktime?
No.


I found a file with a recent modified date by searching
files with the text containing Quick View Plus. It found a
user.dat file located in Windows folder. The date shows
that it was modified today, however I didn't make any
changes. I am not familiar with the .dat extension, but it
is in the windows folder. It was the only file that was
found when I did a search for text in drive C.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Rick

 

[TJ]

My solution was to right-click the web-page and choose
the "Encoding" item on the context-menu. This opens a
sub-menu that allows you to selet a specific encoding.
Mine was set to "Auto-Select" which is the default I'm
assuming. I changed this specifcally to Windows-1252 or
UTF-16 (or even UTF-8 for that matter) and the "View
Source" command worked again.