Hey Hey! Calm down.

Why does everyone cuss Bill Gates? Sure, Windows has it's problems, and his marketting stragety is very aggressive (illegal in the UK), but he's almost managed to unify the computing world. I had Netscape for a while, but I didn't like it. I ahve Linux installed, and it's great, but it doesn't have the support for my drivers and won't run the programs I need.

You like Mozilla, sure, use it. I like IE because just about everyone is at least familiar with it and I really can't be bothered to tune another browser to my prefs. It works fine and is perfectly stable.

Although I must voice my concerns over Microsoft's internal posting system. I sent them a cheque three weeks ago for a replacement disk. It arrived yesterday. Not everyone has a credit card. :roll:

Strange, but none of this has cured my problem . . . . .

Kev.

maybe this one is more to whats hapening with you IE,or maybe not

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=180176

Had this problem too. I found the fix. Go to this site -

http://members.blue.net.au/felgall/brsie8.htm

click on link to download patch. Follow author's instructions.

Viola!

kevinwed, thanks a million! That sorted it, cheers!

Kev.

Rockmartin2003:

Don't you hate it when jerks just tell you "ie sux use mozilla" when all you want is a fix? I had the exact same problem. Here's the true fix:

Here's some of the the conclusions of www.tek-tips

Step 1

Run the following commands from start/run.
Run each line individually.
After each run, you should see a short message stating the command was successful.

The first command is the one most likely to work.

regsvr32 Urlmon.dll
regsvr32 Shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 Shell32.dll (only applicable to Windows ME, Windows 2000 and XP)
regsvr32 shdoc401.dll (only applicable to Windows 95, Windows 98)

regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 Actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 Mshtml.dll

Reboot Computer and test.

Step 2

The problem can also be caused by the version of oleaut32.dll, and can be resolved by replacing oleaut32.dll version 3.50.5014.0 556kb 8/23/01 with oleaut32.dll version 2.40.4275 492kb 5/11/98.

This is an older version of the file and has been known to remove the problem.

The file is located in MDAC_IE5.CAB

Or

Ie4_1.cab on earlier versions.

If the cab file is not available, it can be downloaded from:

http://193.125.152.107/pub/Infovisor.../MDAC_IE5.CAB/ (Size = 2.1 MB)

Or

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/pop.shtml?oleaut32 (Zip file size = 308 Kb)

This can be done on most Windows versions by using the "System File Checker" utility.

To do so, follow the steps for the appropriate version of Internet Explorer:


Internet Explorer 5/6:

The Oleaut32.dll file is located in the Mdac_ie5.cab file in Internet Explorer version 5.
For Internet Explorer 6, you will need to obtain a copy of the file from an older version of Internet Explorer.
Windows 95/98: If the Internet Explorer .cab files are unavailable, or if extracting the Internet Explorer version of the Oleaut32.dll file does not work, you may be able to resolve the issue by extracting the Windows version of the file, from the Windows installation disk or .cab files.

For Windows 95, the Oleaut32.dll file is located in the Win95_09.cab file on the Windows 95 CD-ROM.

For Windows 98, you can extract / replace this file by using the SFC utility.

Reboot Computer and test.


Step 3

Download and run the following file:

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...S/mcrepair.EXE

Step 4

Read MS article
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q281679

today is Feb 16th, 2004 - i encountered this problem this afternoon when a program i was installing crashed. i used Step 1 in the above mentioned fixes, and it seems to have worked. Thank you,

~Reinkster

Skoundrel,

Step 2 worked for me, you are L33t man.. this IE prob has been bugging me for the longest time. Thanks!

JC