Re: Dirext X - SP2

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From: Menno Hershberger (mhersh22_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:01:11 -0700

I am printing that article out and plan to go to her place and see if I
can work it out. However, the article is all about the firewall and we
had tried it with the firewall turned off. The security settings is where
the error message is trying to send her.

"RonK" <hereiam@homenow.com> wrote in
news:u2C0d.34779$lP4.2306464@news20.bellglobal.com:

> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842242&product=windowsxp
> sp2
>
> Have a look at the above url.
>
> "Menno Hershberger" <mhersh22@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns95619660F4ADbutter@207.46.248.16...
>>A lady called me tonight... one of my customers. Yesterday automatic
>>update
>> did Service Pack 2 to her. Her big thing at home is playing Cribbage
>> on line. I think she said it's through Yahoo. Anyway, it quit
>> working. She gets the notice about clicking on the whatever bar it is
>> now that comes up in Internet Explorer. When she clicks on that, it's
>> telling her that her Security Settings in Internet Explorer won't
>> allow what she's trying to do and explains to her that she needs to
>> "allow" directX. So I led her thru that and she checked "allow" in
>> both places. It's still giving her the same
>> message about her security settings. At this point I'm stumped.
>> The lady is computer literate. She's secretary of our phone company
>> and
>> is doing all the billing, 911, directory services, and all that good
>> stuff with SP2 installed at work.
>> I don't know how to play Cribbage or I'd try it myself... I'm
>> pretty
>> good at Scrabble though!
>>
>> --
>> --- I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on disk somewhere. ---
>
>
> 

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