xp home: links dont open

[Ahmad]

hi
i have xp home and when i go to the internet it works, but
when i click on links and some sites like hotmail either
nothing happens or a blank window is open.
i can go on any other sites but the links and hotmail is
my big priblem.
so if any one has any idea ca u please help me out

thank

Ahmad
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

hi
i have xp home and when i go to the internet it works, but
when i click on links and some sites like hotmail either
nothing happens or a blank window is open.
i can go on any other sites but the links and hotmail is
my big priblem.
so if any one has any idea ca u please help me out

thank

Ahmad
(e-mail address removed)

Disable email scanning in your antivirus product, then test and see if it's
fixed.

If not, there has been a problem with web surfers visiting
www.webforhumans.com and not having a popup blocker installed or clicking on
various links at that page which changes their home page in Internet
Explorer to www.about-blank.biz and to remove the bugs it installs requires
the use of HijackThis which can be found at:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/HijackThis.exe
or you can try:
How to remove Coolwebsearch and affiliates
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm#Coolwebsearch

A lot of Comcast users have been reporting such problems.
From Robert Aldwinckle:
[Type these commands, one at a time, in the IE Address Bar]

javascript:navigator.browserLanguage
javascript:navigator.systemLanguage
javascript:navigator.userLanguage

[and report the results back here.]

Here is a related discussion where the user was prepared to experiment
along that tack:

<
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]#link6 >

That particular case was perhaps unusual because browserLanguage
turned out to be EN-US, implying that the platform was a US version
of Windows!

Previously I had done a similar attempt at diagnosis/repair with a Dutch
(NL) user. That one somehow didn't turn out so benignly. I tried to
simulate the analogous changes e.g. from EN-US to NL and back on
my test partition though with no such ill effect; so suspect the fresh
symptoms that user had may have been (hopefully <g>) caused
by something else.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

hi
i have xp home and when i go to the internet it works, but
when i click on links and some sites like hotmail either
nothing happens or a blank window is open.
i can go on any other sites but the links and hotmail is
my big priblem.
so if any one has any idea ca u please help me out

thank

Ahmad
(e-mail address removed)

Sorry for the wrong answer.
From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm

1. Click Start, and then click Run.

2. In the Open box, type:

regsvr32 urlmon.dll

3. Click OK, and then click OK again when you receive the following message:

DllRegisterServer in urlmon.dll succeeded.


4. If that doesn't fix it, see this article:

http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers.htm#new_window

5. If you are using WinXP try this:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/reg/IE_Default_Browser.reg


You can also try this:

Go to Start/run, and type SFC (msconfig for WinXP).
Choose 'Extract One File From Installation Disk'.
Type oleaut32.dll, not worrying about its location. Then, click Start.

Next to 'Restore From', type in or browse for the file's location, which is
probably in the Win98 folder of your installation CD-ROM (typically
D:\Win98), or in your Windows\Options\Cabs folder, as the case may be.

Then, next to 'Save File In', enter C:\Windows\System, and click OK. System
File Checker looks for the file, saves it as you requested, and then tells
you that 'the file has been successfully extracted'.

You may need to reboot.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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