internet explorer problem...

[andrew70677]

I am utterly confused and utterly pissed. Pop-ups no longer work in internet explorer. Not just ads, [i don't even use ad blocking software], but even the ability to right click on a link and "open in new window" has become very......buggy, i guess. Whenever a new window is supposed to be opened, it does, yet the area where the page is to be displayed is either blank, or clear [it just shows whatever was there when the window opened.] The status bar remains empty, and that damn little spinning globe on the Windows logo just spins and spins. Its a bit hard to describe. In order to actually get to where popup windows are supposed to get me, I have to click 'Stop' and then the address appears in the address bar and I must click 'Go'. However, more than one window of IE can be opened by running the program itself several times. This problem even occurs when browsing in Offline Mode. I have reinstalled IE, and even upgraded [twice, now i'm using IE6, which I really wanted to avoid], and nothing has helped. I have even gone through different registry entries, by backing up IE entries, then deleting certain keys and tweaking around to try and find the source of the problem. I even went to microsoft's support site, which had an article on the exact problem, but none of the solutions listed had any result. The only way I see left is to reinstall Windows, which I tried awhile back to fix another problem, but THE DAMN SETUP PROGRAM CRASHED AT THE SAME TIME 10 TIMES WITH THE SAME ERROR [sorry for the caps] and I really don't want to go through that process again.
This problem surfaced suddenly, in the last 3 days, where it seemed to be less noticeable, and only happened rarely, but now, every window is affected. The only programs I have installed recently are Opera 7, Kazaa Lite [K++ 2.03], and nothing else I can remember....

I tried to describe my problem in as much detail as I could, and if you have ANY possible solutions or ideas, i'd appreciate it, cause I have tried all I could think of.
OS: Windows ME
Browser: IE 5.5SP1, then IE5.5 SP2, Now IE6SP1

I attatched a crappy screenshot, if it may help

Thanks,
Andrew

[jonny5]

maybe you're running out of memory ? how much ram do you have?

could also be a slow connection perhaps?

those are just a couple of thoughts:fire

[andrew70677]

160 mb ram, 56k

No, I have had these specs for a long time and and this problems just came up....

Hmmm.......seems really illogical, doesn't it? I just don't know......

[phalkon30]

That happens to my computer every once in a while

Either I'm running low on resources, or the website is down, in which case it will load till it times out, then goes to a normal window

If you're running K++ at the same time, exit kazaa, it can be a resource hog, especially the newer versions if you're multisourcing

BTW, thanks for including a lot of info, you have no idea how much that helps in most cases...saves a lot of questions

[andrew70677]

Yeah, it used to happen to me occasionally too, but now it happens every time, regardless of [anything.] Even in safe mode, while in offline mode, whenever.

I found some good stuff at http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/internet_explorer.htm
and I'm still playing around with it....

I also remember trying out IE++ a few days ago, but I could never even get the toolbar to be availible to show up, so I uninstalled it, but it might be messing other things up?


Still working, but this is getting old, and the same phrase runs through my head over and over: "WTF?"

*Yawn*
Other browsers work fine, yet I shall not give up on this shitty problem.

--Andrew

[bobhss]

Simple suggestion, since you've got ME you can use the System Restore feature of it. You say the problem has surfaced in the last 3 days. Use the System Restore to go back to the settings from 4 days ago or before. If that doesn't help then you have a bigger problem that I don't have a clue about.

[andrew70677]

Well, after sifting through a considerable load of crap, I discovered oleaut32.dll had been replaced or corrupted or whatever, and I reinstalled and re-registered it. The same problem actually affected InstallShield and some other windows things [like "find on this page"] as well.

Sadly, I'm back in the world of pop-up ads that actually load.