Re: More and More page loading issues: usual IE woes and more

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Answered in reply to your first, identical post about this (Dont want to go to FIREFOX!!! Increasing IE6 page load woes), posted 2 minutes earlier than this one.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
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A Gunslinger wrote:
We have been having more and more occurrences of IE6 failing to load
pages. This may be a little to general but here is what we have.
Networked systems wherein some systems can access a web page and a few
other cant. The netwrok people have verified that there are no DNS
issues. All the cahces and temp files have been purged. No spyware. No
popup blockers activated. No hidden popup blockers via Google or Yahoo
toolbars. I reset all IE6 Security setting back to defaults. No
viruses. Still wont load on one system. System next door running same
setup (XP Pro) fires it up no problem. We are totally convinced its an
IE quirk at this point.

We have also tried several registry changes we found suggested in varius
newsgroups. Also unregistered and re-registered various components (.ocx
and .dlls). Nothing. There is also nothing special about the pages being
accessed. One has a small benign active x component and one is a basic
https secure site.

Loaded all Windows updates, even loaded new Java Runtime. still nothing.
Other computers, not problem. Worse i that it works great in Firefox on
that system. I REALLY dont want to become a Firefox guy, but with the
ever increasing number of these perplexing web site issues its getting
harder.

Is there any way to troubleshoot we may have missed? We cant find a
pattern in the sites that wont load nor the random nature when IE6 on a
given computer fails to load a page.

One of the more common ones we see now is OWA Outlook Exchange webaccess
issues wherein people can view their mail but can not reply or open the
email - and shows a yellow Error on Page icon in the lower left. Most
people fix this by turning off a pop up blcokers but ours are off!!! May
be an Exchnage issue thou not IE, but I think its IE. IE is the only
common denominator.

Any thoughts, info, insights, condolances welcome!

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