Re: Downloadng PDF files

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/13/04


Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 02:29:08 -0500


"Groggy2" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1ba8101c42107$e5d621c0$a401280a@phx.gbl
> I want to thank those individuals who responded to my
> problem re getting rid of (apparently) a CoolWebSite
> hijack. CWS Shredder (of all those I tried) did the
> trick. But now I am left with a different problem.
> Apparently in all the trials to rid the hijacker
> something got fouled up. My home page stays put but I am
> unable to download any PDF file. This occurs with both
> IE 6 and Netscape 7.02 (I have both). The browsers just
> hang as if waiting for a connection, or, they say "done"
> but nothing is done. Are there any registry entries that
> may have been clobbered that could cause this? Any other
> suggestions short of re-installing NT?
>
> Again, thanks for your help.

In your attempts to fix things did you uncheck "Enable third-party browser
extensions" in Tools | Internet Options | Advanced? If so, recheck it.

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