Hi Rob,

Thanks for your advise. I'll try out by unchecking "Enable
Third-Party Browser Extensions" on one of my test machine where I am repro
this issue and see that it helps me.

I would appreciate if you can give me some deeper inputs on why this strange
behavior of IE. Is this a known issue with IE? I could see a work around of
this odd behavior on microsoft.com but it doesn;t really help in any form.

Thanks once again!!

Regards,
Srini.

"Rob Parsons" wrote:

> Hi Srini,
> I don't have the environment to reproduce your problems, but to test if
> there is a conflict with IE Add-ons is easy.
> Just disable 'Third party browser helpers' on the Advanced tab in Internet
> Options.
> You may also have a better response from the Office newsgroups as this seems
> to be the vein of your problems.
> "Srinivas Kandula" <Srinivas Kandula@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:3AA83FEB-0EAE-4441-B641-55EB2E6CC973@microsoft.com...
> > Hi All,
> > I am facing a peculiar issue with IE. I guess it could be a known
> > issue. One of our applicaiton extensively uses Office XP/2000 Web
> components
> > to display the excel output in the form of Pivot table or chart etc. The
> web
> > interfaces provide rich features to sort, filter etc. Most recently the
> users
> > are complaining that IE terminates abruplty whenever they attempt to view
> the
> > reports. We are working on environment with IE 6.0 SP2 on XP SP2 machines
> > with Office XP/2000 Web Components installed. Usually these machine would
> > have office 2003 on their desktop so, we just instruct to install only
> > XP/2000 web Components. I am able to repro this issue on several boxes.
> > Initially I thought it could be due to Add-ons that are hosted on box but
> I
> > tried this on a clean, newly built machine as well and IE
> aborts/terminates
> > abruptly there as well.
> >
> > Is this a known issue? Any work around? Is it because of Office XP/2000
> Web
> > components not being able to integrate with IE Add-ons that are already
> > installed on box. We cannot control the users not allowing the IE Add-ons.
> >
> > Any help on this would be highly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Srini
>
>
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