RE: View Source problem

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From: bsamstag (bsamstag_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:35:02 -0700

Mike,
Some of the newsgroup replies speak of clearing cache, temporary files, messing with the Registry, etc., to fix this problem, but I do most of that regularly, and NotePad always opened with the desired HTML code. Suddenly, NotePad opened with nothing in the page.

Try this: Make sure that "notepad.exe" is present in your PC. I did a search for all occurances of "notepad" and came up with two 65K versions in the c:\windows and c:\program files\internet explorer\connection wizard. There was a third file in c:\windows\system32, but it was only 3K. I opened it with an editor and found an "MZ" file identifier (which means nothing to me). But, renaming this file to "Xnotepad.exe" made the HTML code suddenly reappear when I click on View Source. This anomaly just seemed to happen, and I have no idea how it got there.

I hope this helps. 

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Regards,
B Samstag
Culver City, CA
"Mike" wrote:
> When I try to view source on a web page nothing happens. 
> This includes my own page. I have tried deleting the 
> files in the Temporary files folder but i dosen't help. I 
> am using XP. 
>