Here's another weird one for y'allz.  My Network Places (FKA Network Neighborhood) 
is acting up on me.  Whenever I have the "Enable Web Content in Folders" option, 
under the "General" tab, on the "Folder Options" properties page, I get an error 
accessing My Network Places.

Whenever, under these conditions, I try to access My Network Places, it pops up a 
Script Error dialog box, with the following information:

Line: 206
Char: 21
Error: Unspecified error.
Code: 0
file://C:\WINDOWS\Web\nethood.htt

It also asks me whether I want to continue running scripts on this page.  Whether 
I tell it yes or no makes no difference, as I am presented with another, identical 
prompt.  After clicking either yes or no on the second prompt, the prompt disappears, 
and I am left with a blank folder.  The status bar shows that there are four objects 
in the folder, but none are displayed.

Does anyone know how to fix this one?  Anyone wanna take a look at the script, and 
debug it for me?  If you want to see the script, I'll e-mail you the file.  Just 
give me your address, or send an e-mail to me.

For the time being, I've disabled the in-folder web content, but I would like to 
be able to re-enable it.  So I belive the only way to do this would be to replace 
the buggy file with a working copy.  Would it maybe be possible to copy the file 
from another working computer?  (Memo to me:  I'll have to try getting the copy off 
my stepdad's machine.)

If you have a possible answer to this problem, please respond ASAP.  Thank you.

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Didn't Work Tuesday, August 14, 2001 at 8:52 pm Posted by Coby Wan Kenobi (41 messages posted) Just FYI (For Y'allz's Information): I just tried copying the file from my stepdad's machine, and it didn't work. I still got the same error. In fact, I've now found that my stepdad's machine is doing it, too! Would the installation of TweakUI have anything to do with this, by chance? Just a thought. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Friday, August 17, 2001 at 9:36 pm Posted by Barbara-Ann (16 messages posted) On Tuesday, August 14, 2001 at 8:39 pm, Coby Wan Kenobi wrote: >Here's another weird one for y'allz. My Network Places (FKA Network Neighborhood) >is acting up on me. Whenever I have the "Enable Web Content in Folders" option, >under the "General" tab, on the "Folder Options" properties page, I get an error >accessing My Network Places. > >Whenever, under these conditions, I try to access My Network Places, it pops up a >Script Error dialog box, with the following information: > >Line: 206 >Char: 21 >Error: Unspecified error. >Code: 0 >file://C:\WINDOWS\Web\nethood.htt > >It also asks me whether I want to continue running scripts on this page. Whether >I tell it yes or no makes no difference, as I am presented with another, identical >prompt. After clicking either yes or no on the second prompt, the prompt disappears, >and I am left with a blank folder. The status bar shows that there are four objects >in the folder, but none are displayed. > >Does anyone know how to fix this one? Anyone wanna take a look at the script, and >debug it for me? If you want to see the script, I'll e-mail you the file. Just >give me your address, or send an e-mail to me. > >For the time being, I've disabled the in-folder web content, but I would like to >be able to re-enable it. So I belive the only way to do this would be to replace >the buggy file with a working copy. Would it maybe be possible to copy the file >from another working computer? (Memo to me: I'll have to try getting the copy off >my stepdad's machine.) > >If you have a possible answer to this problem, please respond ASAP. Thank you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 1:07 pm Posted by Barbara-Ann (16 messages posted) see if this article helps...http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/tweakui2000.shtml [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Thursday, October 18, 2001 at 4:09 pm Posted by bob (1 messages posted) Here is microsoft's fix: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q300/4/23.asp On Tuesday, August 14, 2001 at 8:39 pm, Coby Wan Kenobi wrote: >Here's another weird one for y'allz. My Network Places (FKA Network Neighborhood) >is acting up on me. Whenever I have the "Enable Web Content in Folders" option, >under the "General" tab, on the "Folder Options" properties page, I get an error >accessing My Network Places. > >Whenever, under these conditions, I try to access My Network Places, it pops up a >Script Error dialog box, with the following information: > >Line: 206 >Char: 21 >Error: Unspecified error. >Code: 0 >file://C:\WINDOWS\Web\nethood.htt > >It also asks me whether I want to continue running scripts on this page. Whether >I tell it yes or no makes no difference, as I am presented with another, identical >prompt. After clicking either yes or no on the second prompt, the prompt disappears, >and I am left with a blank folder. The status bar shows that there are four objects >in the folder, but none are displayed. > >Does anyone know how to fix this one? Anyone wanna take a look at the script, and >debug it for me? If you want to see the script, I'll e-mail you the file. Just >give me your address, or send an e-mail to me. > >For the time being, I've disabled the in-folder web content, but I would like to >be able to re-enable it. So I belive the only way to do this would be to replace >the buggy file with a working copy. Would it maybe be possible to copy the file >from another working computer? (Memo to me: I'll have to try getting the copy off >my stepdad's machine.) > >If you have a possible answer to this problem, please respond ASAP. Thank you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Friday, March 22, 2002 at 12:48 pm Posted by Ivo Lacle (1 messages posted) See if this helps you out. If you are using TweakUI, it's possible that this utility is causing the problem. Open your control panel, double click on tweakUI, click on the desktop tab and at the bottom where you see "first icon on Desktop", make sure it says My Documents. It should fix the problem. On Thursday, October 18, 2001 at 4:09 pm, bob wrote: >Here is microsoft's fix: > > >http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q300/4/23.asp > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 8:18 am Posted by J Yates (3 messages posted) Ok I had tried what Microsoft said to do (extracting the files again) and that didn't fix the problem for me. Appearently there are only two ways to fix this that I have been able to find. 1) Use TweakUI and have "My Documents" listed first - which I personally don't want to do because I like having "My Computer" up first. or 2) Going into nethood.htt (and also imgview.htt to fix the problem with the My Pictures folder) and comment out all lines that have anything to do with "shell.NameSpace" Actually will require commenting out an entire section, but for those of us who know what we're doing, do we really need to see links to "My Documents" / "My Computer" / "Printers" or the "Networking Troubleshooter"? Ok then, just comment out the entire section and the problem is gone, along with those links. From what I have deduced, the problem is caused when a reference is made to shell.NameSpace and you have used TweakUI to make "My Computer" come before "My Documents". So the fault I would think isn't in TweakUI, but in the process that is supposed to handle "shell.NameSpace" So then does anyone know how to fix the NameSpace bug so that it wont be necessary to comment out those lines? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 8:33 am Posted by J Yates (3 messages posted) ok I probably should have waited a few more minutes before posting, because I have a solution that works regardless of which you have listed first. Get out notepad folks, this will take a couple of minutes, but will fix the problem. Go to the Windows\WEB directory to open/edit/save two files. File: nethood.htt ------------------ Look for a link that has "shell.namespace" AND "shell:personal" in it. Change "personal" to "personalfolder" Next, a few lines down, look for "mydocsfolder.Title" and change that to "L_MyDocuments_Text" Now save, and you shouldn't have anymore problems with it. File: imgview.htt ------------------ Look for the same line ("shell.namespace" and "shell:personal" in it). Yep, change it to have say "personalfolder" instead of just "personal". Save, and that should fix the problems. It did on my system at least. Will others please post and let me know if it works on their system too? Thanks in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Sunday, August 4, 2002 at 7:59 pm Posted by David Brierley (1 messages posted) I just upgraded one of my Win98 machines to Me and I very quickly ran into this problem. I read through all the messages in this thread and came up with a slightly different solution that seems to work just fine. I had been playing with TweakUI and since I had "My Computer" first on the display, I set it to first with TweakUI. After reading this thread I went back into TweakUI and changed it so "My Documents" was listed as first. However, what I then discovered was that the value of that option appears to have no relationship to the way the icons are arranged on the display. Simply turn off "auto arrange", set up the icons however you want them to appear, and everything works just fine! The thing I like best about this solution is that it doesn't require editting any files. My concern in that regard was that at some point in time they would decide that nethood.htt needed to be modified and the next critical update would undo all the edits you have so carefully made. On Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 8:33 am, J Yates wrote: >ok I probably should have waited a few more minutes before posting, because I have >a solution that works regardless of which you have listed first. > >Get out notepad folks, this will take a couple of minutes, but will fix the problem. > >Go to the Windows\WEB directory to open/edit/save two files. > >File: nethood.htt >------------------ >Look for a link that has "shell.namespace" AND "shell:personal" in it. >Change "personal" to "personalfolder" > >Next, a few lines down, look for "mydocsfolder.Title" and change that to "L_MyDocuments_Text" > >Now save, and you shouldn't have anymore problems with it. > >File: imgview.htt >------------------ >Look for the same line ("shell.namespace" and "shell:personal" in it). Yep, change >it to have say "personalfolder" instead of just "personal". > >Save, and that should fix the problems. It did on my system at least. Will others >please post and let me know if it works on their system too? Thanks in advance. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Monday, August 5, 2002 at 9:40 am Posted by J Yates (3 messages posted) It's a nice fix except for one thing - if you use Windows Explorer (like I use it) with the left pane showing all the folders, and files on the right, then your fix doesn't work. I tend to use auto arrange for anything that shows icons, since to me, it keeps everything neat. It would be nice if Microsoft were to fix the internal bug that causes this error to begin with. On Sunday, August 4, 2002 at 7:59 pm, David Brierley wrote: >I just upgraded one of my Win98 machines to Me and I very quickly ran >into this problem. I read through all the messages in this thread and >came up with a slightly different solution that seems to work just fine. >I had been playing with TweakUI and since I had "My Computer" first >on the display, I set it to first with TweakUI. After reading this thread >I went back into TweakUI and changed it so "My Documents" was >listed as first. However, what I then discovered was that the value of >that option appears to have no relationship to the way the icons are >arranged on the display. Simply turn off "auto arrange", set up the >icons however you want them to appear, and everything works just >fine! > >The thing I like best about this solution is that it doesn't require editting >any files. My concern in that regard was that at some point in time >they would decide that nethood.htt needed to be modified and the next >critical update would undo all the edits you have so carefully made. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Monday, August 12, 2002 at 4:18 am Posted by Beach Brummett (1 messages posted) I too had this problem with nethood.htt and imgview.htt. I wasn't quite sure what caused the problem though, I was editting the file a few weeks before b/c I wanted a link to a folder I use often in every folder that uses image view. It worked so I deleted the backup. Then I also like to hav my computers the first on the desktop so i tweaked it up w/ tweakui. I fixed the annoyance by your advice adding "folder" to the end and now everything is working fine with my link and all. No more script errors! -thnx again On Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 8:33 am, J Yates wrote: >ok I probably should have waited a few more minutes before posting, because I have >a solution that works regardless of which you have listed first. > >Get out notepad folks, this will take a couple of minutes, but will fix the problem. > >Go to the Windows\WEB directory to open/edit/save two files. > >File: nethood.htt >------------------ >Look for a link that has "shell.namespace" AND "shell:personal" in it. >Change "personal" to "personalfolder" > >Next, a few lines down, look for "mydocsfolder.Title" and change that to "L_MyDocuments_Text" > >Now save, and you shouldn't have anymore problems with it. > >File: imgview.htt >------------------ >Look for the same line ("shell.namespace" and "shell:personal" in it). Yep, change >it to have say "personalfolder" instead of just "personal". > >Save, and that should fix the problems. It did on my system at least. Will others >please post and let me know if it works on their system too? Thanks in advance. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Sunday, September 22, 2002 at 11:05 am Posted by Frank (2 messages posted) This method worked all right, but it has created some unfortunate side effects. Check your Start Menu, and check Documents. There is no icon for "My Pictures", the wrong icon for "My Documents" and when you expand them they will not expand and when you click on them they will not open. Any solution? On Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 8:33 am, J Yates wrote: >ok I probably should have waited a few more minutes before posting, because I have >a solution that works regardless of which you have listed first. > >Get out notepad folks, this will take a couple of minutes, but will fix the problem. > >Go to the Windows\WEB directory to open/edit/save two files. > >File: nethood.htt >------------------ >Look for a link that has "shell.namespace" AND "shell:personal" in it. >Change "personal" to "personalfolder" > >Next, a few lines down, look for "mydocsfolder.Title" and change that to "L_MyDocuments_Text" > >Now save, and you shouldn't have anymore problems with it. > >File: imgview.htt >------------------ >Look for the same line ("shell.namespace" and "shell:personal" in it). Yep, change >it to have say "personalfolder" instead of just "personal". > >Save, and that should fix the problems. It did on my system at least. Will others >please post and let me know if it works on their system too? Thanks in advance. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Monday, October 7, 2002 at 10:09 am Posted by Peter Ludwig (1 messages posted) Thank you for your information. I had the same problems after installing twaek-it, but your tip spolved the problem. Best regards Peter On Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 1:07 pm, Barbara-Ann wrote: >see if this article helps...http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/tweakui2000.shtml > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Friday, April 25, 2003 at 12:00 pm Posted by Bill (2 messages posted) I would appreciate any help you can give me on this: I am having the same problem with a repeated message of "An error has occurred in the script on this page" followed by a line number, Character number, the error, a Code, and the URL. This is followed by a question "Do you want to continue running scripts on this page?" I tried to find nethood.htt and imgview.htt on my computer and couldn't find it. I am running Windows Me on a 1Gig Athalon with 640 MG of DDR Ram. An help would be greatly appreciated.... Bill Braun On Monday, August 12, 2002 at 4:18 am, Beach Brummett wrote: >I too had this problem with nethood.htt and imgview.htt. I wasn't quite sure what >caused the problem though, I was editting the file a few weeks before b/c I wanted >a link to a folder I use often in every folder that uses image view. It worked so >I deleted the backup. Then I also like to hav my computers the first on the desktop >so i tweaked it up w/ tweakui. I fixed the annoyance by your advice adding "folder" >to the end and now everything is working fine with my link and all. No more script >errors! > -thnx again > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Monday, September 29, 2003 at 8:27 pm Posted by RitaL (1 messages posted) Thanks a bunch... Had the same trouble and it fixed for me... On Friday, March 22, 2002 at 12:48 pm, Ivo Lacle wrote: >See if this helps you out. >If you are using TweakUI, it's possible that this utility is causing the problem. >Open your control panel, double click on tweakUI, click on the desktop tab and at >the bottom where you see "first icon on Desktop", make sure it says My Documents. >It should fix the problem. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Friday, October 31, 2003 at 5:08 am Posted by dydx (1 messages posted) thank you.I did as you said and solved my problem! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Friday, March 12, 2004 at 9:25 am Posted by Forrest Compton (1 messages posted) Thank you! Your fix for this problem has solved all the problems that I was experiencing. This fix should be forwarded to Microsoft. Forrest On Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 8:33 am, J Yates wrote: >ok I probably should have waited a few more minutes before posting, because I have >a solution that works regardless of which you have listed first. > >Get out notepad folks, this will take a couple of minutes, but will fix the problem. > >Go to the Windows\WEB directory to open/edit/save two files. > >File: nethood.htt >------------------ >Look for a link that has "shell.namespace" AND "shell:personal" in it. >Change "personal" to "personalfolder" > >Next, a few lines down, look for "mydocsfolder.Title" and change that to "L_MyDocuments_Text" > >Now save, and you shouldn't have anymore problems with it. > >File: imgview.htt >------------------ >Look for the same line ("shell.namespace" and "shell:personal" in it). Yep, change >it to have say "personalfolder" instead of just "personal". > >Save, and that should fix the problems. It did on my system at least. Will others >please post and let me know if it works on their system too? Thanks in advance. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Friday, May 14, 2004 at 1:08 am Posted by drizzle (1 messages posted) I had difficulty tracking this thread and am wondering did someone reply specifically to the Bill Braun post .. where nethood.htt was not on his hard drive .. My Docs won't open from the start menu .. no icon on My Pictures .. and My Network Places has the script error .. what would WE do to fix that... we can't edit nethood.htt ? On Friday, March 12, 2004 at 9:25 am, Forrest Compton wrote: >Thank you! Your fix for this problem has solved all the problems that I was experiencing. > This fix should be forwarded to Microsoft. >Forrest > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Network Places Error Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at 5:36 pm Posted by David (1 messages posted) Thanks, J Yates! Your suggestion solved my problem with the script error issue with Windows Explorer on my Windows ME computer, Thank you!!!! Since the error dialog box only mentioned "imgview.htt", not both "imgview.htt" and "nethood.htt", I concerned myself with ONLY "imgview.htt" by opening a Notepad version of the file and making the required changes to it. It immediately solved the script error for me. There was one outstanding issue, which is not related to the above script error problem. The My Documents and My Pictures tree under the Start Menu wouldn't branch out when I selected either, and it was solved by going into my TweakIU program, selecting the "Desktop" tab and then putting "My Documents" before "My Computer" at the bottom. Once again, thanks, J Yates!!!! David On Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 8:33 am, J Yates wrote: > >ok I probably should have waited a few more minutes before posting, because I have >a solution that works regardless of which you have listed first. > >Get out notepad folks, this will take a couple of minutes, but will fix the problem. > >Go to the Windows\WEB directory to open/edit/save two files. > >File: nethood.htt >------------------ >Look for a link that has "shell.namespace" AND "shell:personal" in it. >Change "personal" to "personalfolder" > >Next, a few lines down, look for "mydocsfolder.Title" and change that to "L_MyDocuments_Text" > >Now save, and you shouldn't have anymore problems with it. > >File: imgview.htt >------------------ >Look for the same line ("shell.namespace" and "shell:personal" in it). Yep, change >it to have say "personalfolder" instead of just "personal". > >Save, and that should fix the problems. It did on my system at least. 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