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I wonder if it has something to do with script debugging. The script debugger annoyance thingy is installed with msft office, for vba/vbs/js script editing. Its annoying default behaviour is to analyze the scripts of every single page you read on the web. First step to get the script debugger...

Listen to make sure that the fans in you box are still running. I advise this just because it is important and also quick to check. What makes me think of it is the black screen and such, which can happen when a system overheats. The other situation that can give some symptoms along those lines...

Charlie, After reading your post, I just tried something somwhat along the lines of what you said. I did a "Find *.ico" on my msie cache directory, and then set those files to readonly. From the msie command, I deleted the cache. So far so good: the favicon.ico files in the cache were...

The keyword is "favicon." You do a google search on that, and you'll see that webmasters are always very interested in howto enable them from their site. For your use, PCmag's Favorg, as brought up by Smitee, is a popular utility and would probably be fun for you to play with. A...

Xenophile wrote: " my WIndows Explorer will not run with the folders showing on the left. I can only get it up without crashing by using the "My Computer" or "My Documents" icon. " - - - Xenonphile, Click Start...Run... then paste the line below and hit OK...

Oooops. It was after posting this I noticed that regedit, unlike the registry editor I regularly use, doesn't seem to accept "HKCU" and wants the full string, HKEY_CURRENT_USER. --------menufix.reg--------------------------- REGEDIT4...

You can actually just delete the whole subkey. Windows recreates it. If you want to do it by saving a text file with a .reg extension, then this one below works. Notice that there is an extra line to also do the start menu, which can be removed if not wanted. The main thing here, as far as...

In my computing life, I've downloaded and installed what seems to be billions of software programs (I'm pretty much a compulsive junkie when it comes to accumulating freeware) -- without doing AV checks...also over time have done hundreds of careless regedit experiments....and despite this...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform One more thing I wanted to add on the subject. At this section of the registry, you can add anything you might wish. (Not sure about max characters, but what you might add there can have...

Those of us who applied the Q312461 / MS01-055 security patch to MSIE, we get that string showing up sent to the server. Why in the world our browser advertises that one and not the other patches is beyone my guess. Only purpose I can see is in theory making it easier for some hostile webmaster...

I haven't happened to have heard of this symptom. But where I'd start would be to see what's going on with the files via explorer. Open up the history folder in explorer. Start out by deleting everything there (just in case there is any kind of corruption). Then set your options to whatever...

There are two different things. The history, all the sites visited during the past X days, that's stored on the HDD. The other, and separate thing, is what we see in the dropdown list of the address bar, the history of typed URLs. That is not stored on the HDD, but in the registry...

[update] Kuramo, I think I ought to delete my tangent into the reg settings for MSIE multimedia options. I use IE5.5 and it is now that it is occurring to me now that your situation very likely has to do with something specific to the IE6.0: the Media Bar. About turning off the autoplay of...

You know, if it were a site other than Hotmail, I'd add it to the Restricted Sites Zone, so that it is prevented from auto-doing a thing. But since it is Hotmail, its functionality depends on it being allowed to run some scripting. The problem still must have something to do with the scripting...

I think the previous reply is probably much more likely on target to the situation than my reply will be. Nevertheless there is one item that could be worth a quick glance. It is this location in the registry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet...