Removing the update made no difference.

One thing I've seen is that IE isn't getting as far as requesting a page-
the firewall doesnt ask for permission to allow connection when trying to
connect to a page.

I wonder if I can just get an IE download to install a new copy of it. I'll
have a look round the MS site in a day or so.




"ed" <M@sk.ed> wrote in message news:dlioq7$i8m$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> That update is applied to my version of OE on the 12th November so it is a
> possibility I will investigate further- however this is a day before the
> problem showed.
>
> I can't recall the PC rebooting at that point but it did following the
> NVidia update. So it is possible that is the cause in my case. I won't get
> the chance to uninstall that update tonight but I will report back as soon
> as I have done it- hopefully tomorrow night.
>
> Thanks very much for the info, I will let you know what happens.
>
>
> btw does anyone have a link to IE6 on its own? If the solution isn't found
> it shouldn't be too long until OE7 is out, apparently its out to the beta
> testers as part of a larger package.
>
>
>
>
> "Charlie Tame" <charlie@tames.net> wrote in message
> news:eVU5mHz6FHA.1032@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> You said Outlook without pics... .
>>
>> Well, if these are pics that come from websites I can understand that,
>> pics in an html email could be links to graphics on the web and OE would
>> use IE components to get them, so that may not be much of a clue, only
>> confirmation (as is FireFox) that the fault is in part of IE rather than
>> network connectivity in general. Is that what you mean or is there some
>> other oddity going on with OE and pictures? (Or are you actually using
>> Outlook the program?)
>>
>> Now, I've been playing with a number of older machines and have installed
>> everal versions of 2000, XP, XP Pro and 2003 just to see how they
>> compare,
>> and looking at this one (2003) the most recent update for IE on about
>> 12th
>> October was KB896688 which leads to here....
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS05-052.mspx
>>
>> The FAQ explains the update, it does diable some functionality in some
>> familiar looking .dlls.
>>
>> Now, I have a number of other updates for that date also which show in my
>> add/remove programs (including updates checkmark) list but that's the
>> only
>> one to which I saw specific reference to IE, the others did not show up
>> that way.
>>
>> What do you think about trying to uninstall that and then check the
>> registry entries listed in the FAQ again to see if they change back? I
>> wouldn't suggest you change them if not unless you are sure what you are
>> doing, but it seems to me this might just be a possibility. I can't test
>> this because none of the systems I've run through the updates etc have
>> failed.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "ImStumped" <ImStumped@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:622F77AF-68A5-4048-B3DF-E708A5C26FA1@microsoft.com...
>>> I'm having the same problem with IE 6. Firefox works, outlook without
>>> pics,
>>> any other internet program that does not rely on IE. This started
>>> happening
>>> after the last set of updates in late October. The first time it
>>> happened,
>>> system restore back a week and a half (Oct 24) fixed it, happened again
>>> after
>>> updates installed, restore to setpoint before update install did not fix
>>> it.
>>> I have an ATI video card, Never had norton or Zone-Alarm installed, on
>>> high
>>> internet, using Windows Firewall, AVG 7 Anti-virus, Microsoft
>>> Anti-Spyware
>>> beta, Ad-Aware SE personal, Spybot S&D, found no viruses and removed all
>>> spyware.
>>>
>>>
>>> IE still doesn't work, and everything I have tried have (obviously) not
>>> worked.
>>
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