Re: Question for George Hester...
From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/23/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:40:32 -0400
Well it actually took us quite a while to isolate the issue to IE 6 (mshtml.dll) actually. We thought it might just be thumbnail view. I was adamant that it was a XML issue. But when all was said and done it is a race condition in mshtml.dll. The article you saw was the best we could come up with you know with beaurocracy and all that.
The article addresses the issue but just on the surface. Many more symptoms can result then just "hang" with this issue. The Exception failure is the one more likely. Crashing shell.
When Windows Explorer starts crashing inexplicably then this work around is a good start.
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George Hester
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"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in message news:uVsN6$BKEHA.3704@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> George Hester wrote:
> > Many of us refuse to install IE 6 on our systems. The real issue
> > here is the cumulative updates for IE 6 that came out in 2003. Again
> > Microsoft is putting out cumulative updates for IE 6 and I would be
> > very cautious installing any of them. The only one I know of that is
> > "not so bad" is the October 2003 cumulative update. The ones in the
> > beginning of 2003 are killers.
> >
> > Microsoft has issues with new browsers and old operating systems. I
> > suspect the browsers that come with the operating system are safe.
> > Now NT is version 2 so that's a dunce. You got to go to at least 5
> > in that. Windows 98 came with IE 4 and I think support stops at IE 6
> > in that one. Windows 98 SE that is. The first version may in fact
> > stop at 5.5. Windows 95 don't even think about it.
> >
> > The point of this is to show how the versions of IE as they increase
> > can become a hassle in older operating systems. It is a result of
> > "integrating" the browser with the Shell. The failure of IE 6 in
> > Windows 2000 is documented. Here is one of the publically accessible
> > issues:
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;821164
>
> George, thanks for the link - I haven't seen that & will bookmark. Then
> again, I don't play with XML files a lot, so I just haven't run into this
> myself. I have many W2k/IE6 servers & workstations out there and so far
> haven't run into a single problem I could isolate to IE6....
>
> "If you enable the Thumbnail view on your Microsoft Windows 2000-based
> computer, and then you open a folder that contains XML files, Windows
> Explorer stops responding (hangs) when you click an XML file. "
>
> >
> > So yes I would use an operating system that comes with the .NET
> > Framework, IE 6 and of course that stays away from cumulative updates
> > for IE 6 from the first 6 months of 2003.
> >
> >> George, you once said, in reply to somwone who was
> >> having problems with IE6 running under W2K, that W2K
> >> just wasn't designed to run IE6.
> >>
> >> I tend to agree, having installed IE6 so .NET professional
> >> could run here, I've had weird problems ever since, even after
> >> uninstalling IE6 and rolling back to 5.5 SP2.
> >>
> >> But now, I need to be able to code in .NET again, and I wonder
> >> if I should just bite the bullet and go to XP?
> >>
> >> Can you shed on any light on the IE6/W2K issue?
>
>
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