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re: IE not working right
Monday, August 21, 2006 at 10:29 am
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Posted by Special-K (582 messages posted)


Tried reinstalling Internet Explorer?





On Monday, August 21, 2006 at 9:42 am, Arthur wrote:
>
>Yesterday when I went out to my cousins house to give hime somthing, he asked me
>a question about his computer. I can usually figure these problems out when I look
>at the computer for a while, but neither him nor myself could get it figured out
>the whole time we were working on it.
>

>The problem: his Internet Explorer doesn't load any pages, it just says this page
>cannot be displayed. We cleared out the history, content.ie5, temp, temporary internet
>files, and prefetch folders, as well as looked through the registry a little bit.
>It still didn't work. Mozilla firefox works fine on his computer and we were connected
>to the internet. We reset the web settings and restored default operations in the
>internet explorer internet settings. I tried to run and sfc /scannow but the command
>prompt told us he needed admistrative privlages at the console level (he is the administrator
>on the WinXP home machine , so this made no sense at all).
>

>Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, when trying to run msconfig from the
>run box or command line, it say s the application cannot be found. I did a file search
>and it opened just fine, so somhow it isn't in the windows system folder anymore
>and it used to run just fine.
>


>much Thanks in advance,
>
Arthur




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