Re: IE 6 won't open

"reduno" <reduno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I can't get IE 6 to open. I've had it on my daughter's pc for a year and all
> of a sudden, it won't open. She uses Netzero dialup. I've uninstalled and
> reinstalled NZ, IE 5.5, IE 6, ran spy bot, regseeker and others but it still
> won't open, whether or not she's online. When I hit ctrl/alt/delete, it
> shows iexplore but it doesn't show up.


Doesn't show up how? No window? or no taskbar icon too?

If there is a taskbar icon it's possible that the window is positioned
off the screen or too small to notice. Right-click the taskbar icon
and use its Move or Size menu items to make the window visible
on your screen. Hint: once you activate a window's menu item
you can use either your mouse or the cursor keys to move or resize
that window even if it isn't immediately viewable.


If there is no taskbar icon too it is even more likely that you are dealing
with malware. Use Task Manager to kill the current instance.
Then Run... (e.g. press Win-R and enter:)

iexplore.exe -nohome

The idea there is that this should see if the IE window
is normally visible. This would be before any toolbar
customization and without your Home Page. You could
then press Esc (or click Stop) to see your toolbar
preferences but without going to your Home Page.
I'm not certain what else pressing Stop at that point
implies. Hopefully it might avoid invoking whatever
it is that takes over your window to make it hidden.


> Can anyone give me any advice?
>
> thx


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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