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DaveInRedmond
Hi!
I upgraded my wife's machine from Win98SE (retail full) to XPPro (retail
full) the other day and there seems to be a rather serious "display" issue.
While the vast majority of applications seem to work fine, IE has problems
displaying all of the contents of certain websites, e.g. the Windows update
site worked fine for a while and I applied all of the patches, but when I go
back now all I get is a totally blank screen and IE says "Done". When I use
Yahoo maps on IE, I get the majority of the contents of the page, but the
map itself does not appear (although the "printable version" control
generates the appropriate map). Finally I tried to add a new user to the
system and went thru the Control Panel to do so - all I got was the title
and task bar at the top of the screen. I have verified the correct action of
the web pages on my own system and everything works OK there. Bottom line is
that some graphic content is not being displayed in at least a couple of
applications.
I had posted this in several other windowsxp.general and
windowsxp.help_and_support and the suggestions were to replace the video
drivers with manufacturer supplied ones. I tried this, but was unsuccessful.
The latest tests involved using SlimBrowser (which uses IE's rendering
engine and other facilities) and Opera to try the same web sites. The sites
showed the same problems in SlimBrowser but came through OK in Opera. So now
I expect that it is an IE issue - either code or setting. I'm a touch
cautious about doing a reinstall of Pro as I may still revert this box to
Win98 (I haven't even activated it yet) and I don't want to do anything that
may complicate the reversion.
Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers for further troubleshooting?
TIA, Dave
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I upgraded my wife's machine from Win98SE (retail full) to XPPro (retail
full) the other day and there seems to be a rather serious "display" issue.
While the vast majority of applications seem to work fine, IE has problems
displaying all of the contents of certain websites, e.g. the Windows update
site worked fine for a while and I applied all of the patches, but when I go
back now all I get is a totally blank screen and IE says "Done". When I use
Yahoo maps on IE, I get the majority of the contents of the page, but the
map itself does not appear (although the "printable version" control
generates the appropriate map). Finally I tried to add a new user to the
system and went thru the Control Panel to do so - all I got was the title
and task bar at the top of the screen. I have verified the correct action of
the web pages on my own system and everything works OK there. Bottom line is
that some graphic content is not being displayed in at least a couple of
applications.
I had posted this in several other windowsxp.general and
windowsxp.help_and_support and the suggestions were to replace the video
drivers with manufacturer supplied ones. I tried this, but was unsuccessful.
The latest tests involved using SlimBrowser (which uses IE's rendering
engine and other facilities) and Opera to try the same web sites. The sites
showed the same problems in SlimBrowser but came through OK in Opera. So now
I expect that it is an IE issue - either code or setting. I'm a touch
cautious about doing a reinstall of Pro as I may still revert this box to
Win98 (I haven't even activated it yet) and I don't want to do anything that
may complicate the reversion.
Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers for further troubleshooting?
TIA, Dave
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