Well I'm pleased to hear that, it is most annoying when things don't do any
good despite the symptoms fitting the usual pattern.

Charlie

"ed" <M@sk.ed> wrote in message news:dm9njs$bj9$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> An update:
>
> I tried everything suggested, everything I could find in the knowledgebase
> and multiple sites and couldn't find anything that fixed this. Everything
> but a reinstall.
>
> I was planning the reinstall this week- but it has all started working
> again- I haven't tried any fixes for days. I haven't looked yet but I'm
> (only) guessing but perhaps there has been another update from MS that has
> been applied and fixed it. Items linked in both IE and OE function
> correctly.
>
>
>
>
> "Charlie Tame" <charlie@tames.net> wrote in message
> news:eUGkUFZ7FHA.2040@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Not one of my better "Thinking" days I'm afraid, but that may have helped
>> to narrow a few possibilities down.
>>
>> I suppose it is possible that this is connected with a registry entry not
>> being "Read' properly, your saving the registry by closing regedit may
>> have triggered something to be read that wasn't being read before...
>>
>> Do post again if anything changes or changes back please.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> "BCG" <BCG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:508CEDA6-F450-4B81-AE48-E5C3E5833E8B@microsoft.com...
>>> Here's A thought...
>>>
>>> My Dad was looking at some knowledge base articles, and came across this
>>> one:
>>>
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?id=883256
>>>
>>> He looked at a few of the suggestions and solutions listed on that page,
>>> and
>>> on a couple others. He started looking at ActiveX controls, and tried to
>>> look
>>> at the settings in start/run/gpedit.msc. This computer would not open it
>>> up,
>>> saying it could not be found. Then he went to the registry keys listed
>>> in the
>>> above KB article, and even though there was nothing different, something
>>> in
>>> what he did changed something, because when he logged into another
>>> account,
>>> Microsoft Anti-Spyware popped up a window asking for approval of a
>>> browser
>>> modification, and all of a sudden problem's solved.
>>>
>>> We haven't the slightest idea of how our looking at registry keys and
>>> trying
>>> to open gpedit.msc, when he changed nothing, caused the browser to be
>>> "modified" and thereby fixed.
>>>
>>> Can you guys think of anything??!
>>
>>
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