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From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:06:08 -0500

I run into these things all the time when I try to fix a problem. It's kind
of funny. I'll tell you my problem explain the process that lead to this
state of affarirs. I hope this helps any that also want this fix:

I was at eBay and tried to save a auction page as a mht in Windows 2000 SP4
Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4. The Save as ... failed. It was an exception
violation which of course closes all open browsers. It sucks. I believe
this will happen at any eBay auction page but cannot test right now for sure
because I can't lose my open browsers if it succeeeds (fails???).

Try this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5126714342&ssPageNam
e=STRK:MEWA:IT

Try to save that as a mht in Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 in Windows 2000.
You should crash.

Now I found this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=816868

In here you'll see that this is a fix for all IE browsers compatible with
Windows 2000. Note this article is specfic to certain files in Windows
2000'ds IE installation namely urlmon.dll which is where iexplorer.exe
throws up at the link I provided at eBay. So let's install this and be done
with it. Might work might not but cannot hurt to try.

Well none of the links in that article work. Bummer. But they do give the
file name:

IE5.01sp4-KB871260-Windows2000sp4-x86-ENU.exe

So let's see if we can't pull out its location.

Googling gives this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=IE5.01sp4-KB871260-Windows2000sp4-x86-ENU.exe

Aha we get the previous article and a new one. Namely this one:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=871260

Now we are on a roll. For you will see they are the same. So the link in
the first article althouh bad is really:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/0/c/50c42d0e-07a8-4a2b-befb-1a403bd
0df96/IE5.01sp4-KB871260-Windows2000sp4-x86-ENU.exe

The only trouble with this is that installing it will get you all the
security updates for IE that have come out recently which may not be a good
thing. The first article was specific to an Error message whereas the same
file available elsewhere is now bloated.

Well you have the link to it and can install it I suppose if you want. I'm
going to wait a bit just to be sure there is safety in this one. And then
see if the above eBay link still fails. 

--
George Hester
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