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Thread ID: 20988	2002-06-16 04:41:00	Interesting IE6 problem	Guest (0)	Press F1

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54560	2002-06-16 04:41:00	Hi all, Just resolved a problem with IE6 that had me stumped for a while. For some time I have not been able to easily download programs, even from CD's via IE6. I first noticed it when browsing the PCWorld CD a couple of months ago. I would click on a link and the browser would just come up with a broken link icon. Strange, I thought, must be a duff CD. But it's being doing it with another couple of CD's since so I was puzzled. Then I had trouble downloading from the internet with Download Accelerator as well. So I decided to uninstall DAP. Then I couldn't get any programs to download at all Things were getting worse! Anyway, long story short: Reinstalled IE6 (problem still persisted) Uninstalled IE6 (went back to IE5) Tried downloading from CD (still had problem but very interestingly clicking on a link for an .exe file had it trying to open it with QuickTime media player! Very strange... ?) Uninstalled QuickTime... Then problem changed to ActiveX problem! (Aha! I thought!) Clicking on a .exe file from IE6 just brought up the little ActiveX icon at the top left of the page) Deleted all ActiveX components in the c:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files folder (including one which definitely seemed to be broken ) Hey Presto! After yet another restart, the problem was resolved. (Whew! ... I thought I was headed for yet another reinstall of Windows98SE which I have reinstalled less than 6 months ago). Since reinstalled IE6 and OE6 and everything so far is back to normal. I will probably reinstall DAP again as I really like the resume feature for larger downloads. Cheers, Rod.	Guest (0)
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