Guest Commish Posted September 22, 2007 Posted September 22, 2007 These 2 problems have just begun occurring a few days ago. Am running Win XP Home and IE6.0 SP2. Norton Internet Security 2008 is updated and reads everything is clean. Prob 1: When accessing any page calling for Flash, I'm being prompted to install Flash. I have since uninstalled and re-installed Flash 9 and Shockwave... If I go to macromedia's page, I'm told 9,0,47,0 is installed. The java site reads me as having the recommended installation V6 Update2. Prob 2: When clicking on any link which opens a new page, nothing happens... either from an email or a web page. Links to a page that replace my current page in IE work fine. I've de-activated Norton & problem seems not to be there. HELP please? Am not savvy so the simpler the better.. but any & all help appreciated. TIA Commish
Guest Nebulus Posted September 22, 2007 Posted September 22, 2007 Re: Flash player not being found AND linked new pages not opening On Sep 22, 3:50 pm, Commish <lazym...@gmail.com> wrote: > These 2 problems have just begun occurring a few days ago. > Am running Win XP Home and IE6.0 SP2. Norton Internet Security 2008 > is updated and reads everything is clean. > > Prob 1: When accessing any page calling for Flash, I'm being prompted > to install Flash. I have since uninstalled and re-installed Flash 9 > and Shockwave... If I go to macromedia's page, I'm told 9,0,47,0 is > installed. The java site reads me as having the recommended > installation V6 Update2. > > Prob 2: When clicking on any link which opens a new page, nothing > happens... either from an email or a web page. Links to a page that > replace my current page in IE work fine. > > I've de-activated Norton & problem seems not to be there. > > HELP please? Am not savvy so the simpler the better.. > but any & all help appreciated. > > TIA > Commish I'm not sure what the problem is with Flash, but if you want a clean uninstall, try Adobe's Flash uninstaller: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157 As for the links not opening up, I had that problem after installing a VERY old graphics app called MicroGrafx Picture Publisher. What happens is that a registry entry gets messed up that allows links to open in IE. There is a tool they released, and I've kept it around because this problem always seems to crop up from time to time. It's called IERegFix, and you can download it here: http://www.nebulus.org/download/IERegFix.zip If you're insterested in seeing what entries it fixes, you can see the log I captured from RegMon: http://www.nebulus.org/download/IERegFix.txt Hopefully that will solve the problem. Enjoy!
Guest Commish Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: Flash player not being found AND linked new pages not opening Many thanks! Was able to repair both problems. The clean uninstall you recommended did the trick on the flash. Although IERegFix did not solve my new windows issue, I did find success - oddly enough - on the following microsoft page: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679 Your quick response much appreciated. Best, Commish On Sep 22, 5:54 pm, Nebulus <pfri...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 22, 3:50 pm, Commish <lazym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > These 2 problems have just begun occurring a few days ago. > > Am running Win XP Home and IE6.0 SP2. Norton Internet Security 2008 > > is updated and reads everything is clean. > > > Prob 1: When accessing any page calling for Flash, I'm being prompted > > to install Flash. I have since uninstalled and re-installed Flash 9 > > and Shockwave... If I go to macromedia's page, I'm told 9,0,47,0 is > > installed. The java site reads me as having the recommended > > installation V6 Update2. > > > Prob 2: When clicking on any link which opens a new page, nothing > > happens... either from an email or a web page. Links to a page that > > replace my current page in IE work fine. > > > I've de-activated Norton & problem seems not to be there. > > > HELP please? Am not savvy so the simpler the better.. > > but any & all help appreciated. > > > TIA > > Commish > > I'm not sure what the problem is with Flash, but if you want a clean > uninstall, try Adobe's Flash uninstaller:http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157 > > As for the links not opening up, I had that problem after installing a > VERY old graphics app called MicroGrafx Picture Publisher. What > happens is that a registry entry gets messed up that allows links to > open in IE. > > There is a tool they released, and I've kept it around because this > problem always seems to crop up from time to time. It's called > IERegFix, and you can download it here:http://www.nebulus.org/download/IERegFix.zip > > If you're insterested in seeing what entries it fixes, you can see the > log I captured from RegMon:http://www.nebulus.org/download/IERegFix.txt > > Hopefully that will solve the problem. Enjoy!- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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