Re: Can't type in IE 6 or OE on Win XP Home PC
From: Kelly Cotter (kelly.cotter_at_*deletethis*blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 07/01/04
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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:28:49 GMT
"Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Could really use some help on this odd problem.
>
> I am working with an XP Home - PC that is having some very
> odd problems with IE and OE. In IE I am unable to type in
> any text box on any page - for example I can not log in to
> my hotmail email account because I try to click in the
> user name field and nothing happens. Similar problem in
> OE - when I either reply to a message or create a new
> message I can type in the To: field but I can not access
> nor type in the message field.
>
> I have searched extensively on these problems all over the
> Internet and the closest hint I could find (on MS's
> support page - but really for IE 5, not 6) was to replace
> the mshtmler.dll file in the windows system directory as
> it might be corrupt (I did this with every instance of
> that file I could find on the PC) - and this did not help
> at all. I also did the usual things such as uninstall both
> IE and OE and reinstall, scan for viruses with the best
> and brightest apps and check for all manner of spyware via
> adaware and spybot etc. Nothing has helped.
>
> Other clues: I get an "Error: 96" when I go to IE help-
>> about and I get a similar error when I start up OE and
> click on the Outlook Express parent folder - it gives
> me "Error: 30".
>
> This PC was having hardware stability issues (now fixed)
> so quite likely some file or other is corrupt.
>
> I am about to wipe the hard drive and reinstall unless
> someone here might be able to assist.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Steve
1st i would download and run these be sure to update them
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ adaware
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download spybot
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download cwshredder
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html some other usefull removal
tools
also do a full virus scan
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