Win2k SBS and IE6 / MSHTA.EXE issue

[Steve]

Dear All,

I have "inherited" support of a Windows 2K SBS Domain Controller, with
IE6 installed. It appears stable enough, however it does appear to have
an issue with IE6 and possibly MSHTA.EXE.

The Add/Remove applet in Control Panel won't launch, IE hangs when
displaying any web pages - it displays the title of the page in the
title bar, but nothing in the main window, although interestingly it
will open a local "test" HTML file fine.

Each problem appears to result in a hung instance of MSHTA.EXE.

The version/date of MSHTA.EXE in \WINNT\System32 is 6.0.2800.1106/29th
Aug 02, although there is another version in
\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386 of 5.0.3700.6699/17th Jul 03. (Interesting
version/date combination I thought!)

I've puzzled over this on-and-off now for some weeks, now. I've
reinstalled IE6 and the problem continues....

....I'd be interested to hear any other opinions on the subject.

Thanks,

Steve B.

 

[Guest]

We all know that you must be careful when changing the registry in any way
but this is what I would try. First do a back up then go to Start/Run/ type
in Regedit
then find
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace
In the left pane find: {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} Value and
delete it. reboot and see if that works, if not just restore it back.

MAKE A BACK UP COPY FIRST PLEASE.