Re: Honey you broke IE6


"Roy" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> "Kelly" <Kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Create a third, test account. Try IE in there. If it works, import her
> data
> > from her account, delete it, rename test account. Ta da!
> > Good luck!
>
> Hi,
> Created a new account, IE doesn't work in that either. Tried the
> winsock fix, no good, ran Hijack, cw shredder, A2, no nasties. My IE still
> works fine ? I can get on the net with firefox from her account so it
> doesn't seem to be a connection problem.

Panic over. It was the firewall. Although the settings are the same as
mine, and internet explorer had permission to contact the net, for some
reason it was trying to connect through windows explorer which was blocked.
I changed the win explorers setting to 'ask', and after a couple of sites it
was connecting through internet explorer as normal ????


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