XML display problem

[Jeff]

I'm running win2000 sp3. With IE SP1 with the following
patches Q324929, Q818529, Q330994

At one time I was able to display an XML file in IE. Now
whenever I want to display an XML file, (with drag and
drop to the browser, "open file with IE") a file download
process is spawned continously until my computer locks up
due to many processes being spawned. If I right click on
an XML file and use the "send to" feature, the file never
gets displayed. It's as if the process just quits. It's
only when I double click on an XML file. My file system is
set up to "open" an XML file with IE. As I mentioned, when
I double click on an XML file this download file process
goes into a continous loop and never stops until all my
system resources are used up, and the computer hangs or
freezes making it totaly useless.

The XML is fine, I mean I've written the simplest files as
possible, such as for example:

<animal> <dog> </dog> </animal>

I've thought about removing the "Q" hotfix patches for IE.
Just wondering if anybody has experienced or heard of this
and or a possible solution. Thanks in advance.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

My file system is set up to "open" an XML file with IE.

To be clear about what this means try entering the following
commands in a command window and capturing their output:

assoc | find /i "xml"

ftype | find /i "xml"


Since the association is linked to IE an IE Repair might help.
E.g. Run... (press Win-R and enter
rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance

The actual repair phase is only done during the reboot it causes
so best to start it with everything else shutdown and to avoid the
possibility of any of your security programs interfering with its
repair phase during the boot temporarily disable those too.