My 98 refuses to load IC Wizard. Message is "failed to load Internet Connection Wizard (!) Has it been permanently disabled? I'd like it back.

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|I'd like it back.
| frustrated

It sounds like you are using an ancient version
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232118[1]
of  the 
world's  WORST 
browser.

In the distant past (before people became informed
and realized they didn't HAVE to use Internet Exploder),
most folks found ICW annoying and killed it off.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-005


http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
and
http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=windows
are MODERN browsers.
Either is more secure than any version of Internet Exploder.  Both are free.

I use SeaMonkey--Firefox's big brother.
After using its native tabbed browsing and pop-up killer
as well as the AdBlock, FlashBlock, and NukeAnything extensions,
you couldn't convince me to go back to M$'s obsolete, bug-riddled browser.


[1] Applies to IE4.

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On Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 5:33 pm, frustrated wrote:
|My 98 refuses to load IC Wizard.   Message is "failed
|to load Internet Connection Wizard (!)
|Has it been permanently disabled?  I'd like it back.

This is one Windows process that I've never needed to use. My ISP CD sets everything 
up as I want it too.

So you don't have C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Connection Wizard\ICWCONN1.EXE 
on your comp? or it doesn't work. 

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That sounds intriguing. Does it get the "Pop Unders" that somehow elude the Popup Blocker?

.

Kiwi

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On Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 7:32 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>|
>
>I use SeaMonkey--Firefox's big brother.
>After using its native tabbed browsing and pop-up killer
>as well as the AdBlock, FlashBlock, and NukeAnything extensions,
>you couldn't convince me to go back to M$'s obsolete, bug-riddled browser.
>
>
>[1] Applies to IE4.

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|That sounds intriguing.
|Does it get the "Pop Unders" that somehow elude the Popup Blocker?
| Kiwi

Nah. It's a whole different thing.

Pretty much anything that appears on your screen can be zapped away.
There's  Right-click; Remove this object  for actual objects
and for pretty much anything (or a whole bunch of things) that can be *marked*
there's  Highlight; Right-click; Remove selection.

I was reminded how useful this is when I was using the library's computer
(Internet Exploder).  When you get a columnar page
where some dolt hasn't left any spaces in a long line of text
--usually a spamming idiot or someone with an over-obfuscated email address,
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.equipment/topics
the right-hand column gets shoved under another frame
and, in this case, you can't read the timestamps of the posts.

With my box, it's no big deal: Mark; zap (stuff shifts back over); read everything.

When you want to *print* a CONCISE page, this can be VERY useful.
(SeaMonkey's built-in HTML editor makes it easy to get what you want as well.)


You're going to love this.
This DON'T SHOW ME CRAP thing can even be *automated* for sites you visit often.
Mark it once and you never have to deal with that annoying "content" again. 
cache of http://platypus.mozdev.org/
++"Active.Browsing"

The Platypus extension uses "GreaseMonkey" scripts: 
cache of http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/index2.html
++control-any-aspect-of-a-web-page++*.change.its.behavior++website.bugs

...and once someone in the Open Source community solves a problem,
he usually shares his script: 
http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:userscripts.org/scripts/show

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