Re: IE6 hangs on loading ABCNEWS.COM ESPN.COM HSN.COM DISNEY.COM

From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/18/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:28:41 -0500

>From your headers: Newsreader: "Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106"

WinXP Home or Pro, you appear to be missing at least one important security
patch. Check in at Windows Update. 

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jg70124 wrote:
> Robert,
>
> Well, it turns out that when I upgraded from XP Home to XP Pro, I also
> killed my ability to print to the IP printers at work, and the tech
> support guys were unable to fix it even after much fiddling.  So I've
> scorched my drive and reloaded XP Home.  I've just finished reapplying
> all the XP patches (making many restore points along the way), and I'm
> now back to
> 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633; SP1;
>
> All the web sites are working fine.
>
> If I have to get back up to XP Pro, I will choose to do a clean install
> instead of an upgrade and see if that makes a difference.
>
> Jeremy
>
> "Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@techemail.com> wrote in message
> news:ed$jufY8DHA.3880@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> I'm to the point now where I'm considering scorching my drive
>> ...
>>
>> Jeremy,
>>
>> I think you may be giving up too soon.   The diagnostics are again
>> pointing back to your  JavaScript  support.   So one thing we could do
>> to test that idea would be to find a site which does comprehensive
>> testing of JavaScript.
>>
>> Have you been through any of those other test sites that  Mike  gave?
>> E.g. the  PCPitStop or  BrowserTune  sites?
>>
>> When you updated your  Scripting  package were any potentially
>> interfering packages running?   BTW this is mentioned in the WU
>> troubleshooter article that Mike pointed you at.
>>
>>
>> Here's something else which might be useful.   Pretend that the line
>> of script which you caused to fail (because of denying the first
>> scripting prompt) succeeds.   To do that try executing this from your
>> Address bar with full prompting and tell us what you see after allowing
>> all prompts:
>>
>>     javascript:top.location.replace('http://espn.go.com/main.html')
>>
>> BTW that failure was an easy way to invoke the script debugger
>> if you have it installed and script debugging active.   ;)
>>
>> E.g.  going to the Downloads site, searching on Debugger finds this:
>>
>> <title>Download details: Script Debugger for Windows NT 4.0, 2000, and
>> XP</title> <
>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2f465be0-94fd-4569-
> b3c4-dffdf19ccd99&DisplayLang=en >
>>
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> Robert
>> ---
>>
>>
>> "jg70124" <jg70124 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:O9TbsAT8DHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>> Robert, Michael, et al,
>>>
>>> Hey thanks for trying to help with this.  I'm to the point now where I'm
>>> considering scorching my drive and re-installing the OS clean (as
>>> opposed to the upgrade I did 2 weeks ago).  Because of this problem,
>>> but also because I'm having some other seemingly unrelated networking
>>> problems (can't see the domain controller at work).
>> ....
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