Re: Can't type in IE 6 or OE on Win XP Home PC

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: Tony (none_at_none.com)
Date: 07/04/04 

Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 16:55:24 -0400

"Kelly Cotter" <"deletethis"kelly.cotter@*deletethis*blueyonder.co.uk> wrote
in message news:ZXNFc.3408$LP1.29649017@news-text.cableinet.net...
> "Tony" <none@none.com> wrote in message
> news:QbidnZ0gKuRp-XrdRVn_iw@comcast.com
> > Good luck, Steve. I have the same problem with IE6 in XP Pro. I went
> > through the entire mantra that the experts here suggest: AdAware,
> > Spybot, CWShredder, Virus Scan, Hijack This, etc. Not one thing was
> > found. I even did the mshtmler.dll replacement. I was left twisting
> > in the wind. Apparently there's not a lot to suggest beyond the usual
> > things that seem to appear in this ng.
> >
> > Okay, so I'm a little frustrated. But I was unhappy with seeing the
> > same thing thrown at me three or four times when I tried to make it
> > clear that it didn't work the first time.
> >
> > If SP2 wasn't so close to being released I'd probably bite the bullet
> > and do a reinstall over my existing XP Pro.
> >
> sp2 rc2
>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2predl.mspx
> sp2 will probably cause more problems than it solves if installed on a
> "messed up" pc. download it and see if it fixes your problem.

What constitutes a "messed up" PC? Apart from this one issue I have been
running all kinds of stuff on my machine since the day I installed XP Pro
last year. Photoshop, AutoCAD, various multimedia programs... all without
one blip of a problem. No Spyware, no virii, no trojans. Running behind a
router using NAT and also a software firewall. My machine is carefully
maintained, probably better than most. It runs 24/7 and is only rebooted
when I feel like doing it; not because it is required. So does it qualify as
"messed up"?

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