How Fix Minor Corruption in IE6?

From: Joseph Carrier (jercarrier_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:36:47 -0700

I'm running Win XP(home) with the SP2 patch. I recently configured a
NetGear router on my desktop and the process seems to have resulted in the
corruption of a couple of URL's that I can no longer access using the
desktop.

Here's what happened: Installing and configuring the router involved using a
Net Gear CD, the Net Gear Web site. Once the initial installation changed
the Router's factory settings, it was then necessary to "log in" to the CD
to make any further changes in settings. when trying to access the
settings, a login window popped up, and simply typing "admin" in the user
line and "password" in password line. returned me to the settings pages. The
process also involved activating the web site for testing purposes and I
clicked on the Google News Icon on my Google tool bar for that purpose.

It took many resettings to achieve the configuration I wanted and match up
the Router and my laptop's PC wireless adapter. In that process, something
got corrupted on the desktop. Now, I have a well functioning LAN, but
whenever I try to go to Google News on my desktop machine, that NetGear
"log in" box pops up and I can't get to the Google News page -- only back to
the Router settings. Furthermore, that same "log in" box pops up whenever I
visit the NetGear web site. So I cannot use my desktop for those two sites;
instead, I have to boot up my laptop to access them.

It appears to me that something in IE6 was corrupted in my hours of
experimenting to get the router configured and the wireless LAN installed
and working. The only obvious symptom is the inappropriate pop up of the
NetGear log in window when I try to access Google News and the NetGear
website on my desktop. There may be others, but they haven't shown up yet.
If any reader has a different idea about what's going on, I would like to
hear it.

I wary about trying to un- and re-install IE6 -- especially now that I have
SP2 installed and I've heard that it makes the reinstallation procedure very
tricky, if not impossible.

Does anyone have any ideas of things I might try to get rid of this
annoyance, short of a reinstallation of IE6? Would a reinstallation even be
possible on a WinXP SP2 machine?
 

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