Re: Launch Window will not remain open

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On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:53:46 -0800, Kathi S. <kstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 07:35:07 -0600, "Mark L. Ferguson"
><marfer_mvpREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Go to Start/Run, and type: REGSVR32 URLMON.DLL Then open IE, Tools menu, Options, Program Tab, and click the "Reset Web Settings"
>>button.
>
>Mark,
>
>Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately the problem remains. FYI I
>am running XPProSP2; I use Zonealarm Pro, AVG7 antivirus and have run
>Adaware and Spybot. I attempted to use Trendmicro's Housecall but,
>couldn't because of the problem of the IE window closing. I tried
>finding info using Google and found that others have been having the
>same problem (some messages were from last summer) and the only
>suggestion that I haven't tried yet was to reinstall the video drivers
>(which I'll try in the morning).
>
>What I don't understand is that when I did the first XP installation
>the problem appeared about a month or more after. Due to a really
>stupid mistake on my part, I was forced to do a clean install; but
>this time, the problem popped up right away (sigh).
>
>Kathi

Mark, I finally, after trying just about everyting, figured out that
it was AdWatch that was causing the IE problem. I will have to find
out if there's a setting to stop its effect on IE, but meanwhile I've
removed it from the startup list.

Just wanted to post this in case anyone else was having the same
problem.

Kathi
.

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