Re: Certain Websites will not load

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From: SF Gordon (sfgsr_at_msn.com)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:43:57 -0700

HOLD THE PRESSES I FOUND THE CULPRET
the hosts file from the MVPS site in article "blocking unwanted etc" caused
my problem. Now of course I have the original problem, I liked that hosts
file and would like to let the author or overseer know about my adventure.
Anyway to do that???
Thanks to everyone
"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@techemail.com> wrote in message
news:OCKgsXYSEHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> "SF Gordon" <sfgsr@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:uCB0aJPSEHA.2976@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >I have a similar problem. When I put a active program receiving real time
> > data in the background and then try to open certain web sites ie CNN or
> > Seattle times they will not complete opening.
>
>
> This sounds similar to the Red-X symptom I just saw with Trout's site:
>
> < http://www.lickingcounty4hband.com/ >
>
> FWIW here is what I wrote about that:
> <quote>
> BTW something interesting seems to be happening perhaps as a result
> of your marquee scrolling: I consistently got a lot of Red-X for your
> buttons with my usual cache checking setting of Every visit...
> In order to show them all at the same time I had to switch to Never
> and do some refresh commands. Fortunately they are all cacheable
> so once they are loaded I can switch back to Every visit...
> </quote>
>
>
> It's not clear from your description that you really have a problem
> that requires fixing. As I indicated it sounds to me more like something
> that you need to work around somehow and usually the simplest
> workaround for symptoms with known cause is: "Don't do that." ;)
> But in case you can get some benefit from a pseudo-repair here is
> what I have replied to XP users about that option:
>
> <quote>
> Normally (pre-malware) we would suggest an IE Repair.
> That option doesn't even exist for most XP users any more
> but in case it helps here is what I usually suggest to them
> as a simulation. You can find longer lists from others
> by searching this newsgroup.
>
> If you installed IE6sp1 before you installed XPsp1 you should try
> an IE Repair anyway. E.g. Run... (press Win-R and enter:)
>
> rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance
>
> Alternatively, I have been suggesting to XP users that they could
simulate
> the IE Repair that W2K users can do by making a list of all the
references
> to DllInstall and DllRegisterServer in FixIE.inf
>
> For example, here is the list that W2K use of that file would imply:
> (excerpt from previous post)
>
> <excerpt>
> regsvr32 /i browseui.dll
> regsvr32 /i shdocvw.dll
> regsvr32 /i mshtml.dll
> regsvr32 mshtmled.dll
> regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
> regsvr32 /i urlmon.dll
>
> What that represents is the set of re-registrations which
> FixIE.inf indicates would be done for Base.W2K.AddReg
>
> N.B. that neither mshtmled.dll nor actxprxy.dll have an entry point
> called DllInstall and hence the /i option can not be used for them.
>
> Neither msjava.dll nor shell32.dll are referred to by FixIE.inf
> but those are two other modules which are often suggested to XP users
> as needing re-registration for repairing in various circumstances.
>
> Note that such re-registrations are normally done by an IE Repair
> during a boot while nothing is running so at the very least I think
> that it would be best to ensure that iexplore.exe is not active in your
> task list. (Close all visible IE windows and then check that the
> iexplore.exe is not in the list of Processes in Task Manager.
> Ctrl-Shift-Esc,Ctrl-Tab,i,i,...)
> </excerpt>
> </quote>
>
>
> Good luck
>
> Robert
> ---
>
>
>

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