Guest Lennie Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 I have copied the following from another forum - he describes perfectly what i have been experiencing for over 6 months now and it is finally driving me nuts... "I hope someone has a suggestion/solution to this irritating problem. Before posting this message I searched the web for similar issues and applied what I could from what was suggested (re-installing IE, disabling add-ons, ...) but to no avail. The problem occurs only in IE (not Firefox) and exhibits itself randomly (it seems): whenever I click in the address bar or sometimes on some links within the page I get this message in the status bar at the bottom of the page: "Contains commands for working with the selected items" Sometimes repeated clicks help get out of this lock, sometimes I have to restart IE. In some case closing IE window from the "x" button doesn't work as I get the same message. I have to close it through the File --> Exit menu. For those who had this problem and managed to solve it your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.......Youssef" I have also used control/click with sporadic success as a workaround but nothing seems to fully resolve this problem. Help me - this is really annoying! thank you Lennie
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 Re: IE locks with message "Contains commands for working with the ..." Always state your full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3) and IE version (e.g., IE7) when posting to this newsgroup, please. Assuming you've allowed the IE window to load completely, the behavior could be caused by a "sticky" ALT key. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ Lennie wrote: > I have copied the following from another forum - he describes perfectly > what > i have been experiencing for over 6 months now and it is finally driving > me > nuts... > > "I hope someone has a suggestion/solution to this irritating problem. > Before > posting > this message I searched the web for similar issues and applied what I > could > from > what was suggested (re-installing IE, disabling add-ons, ...) but to no > avail. > > The problem occurs only in IE (not Firefox) and exhibits itself randomly > (it > seems): > whenever I click in the address bar or sometimes on some links within the > page > I get this message in the status bar at the bottom of the page: > > "Contains commands for working with the selected items" > > Sometimes repeated clicks help get out of this lock, sometimes I have to > restart > IE. In some case closing IE window from the "x" button doesn't work as I > get > the same message. I have to close it through the File --> Exit menu. > > For those who had this problem and managed to solve it your help will > be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks.......Youssef" > > I have also used control/click with sporadic success as a workaround but > nothing seems to fully resolve this problem. Help me - this is really > annoying! > > thank you > > Lennie
Guest Plato Posted September 14, 2008 Posted September 14, 2008 Re: IE locks with message "Contains commands for working with the ..." =?Utf-8?B?TGVubmll?= wrote: > > The problem occurs only in IE (not Firefox) and exhibits itself randomly (it Hmmm. Seems you already know the best browser to use... -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
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