Hey folks, bear with me, I'm new at this forum thing...my system is XP Pro, browser is IE6.0, and I leave my system on all the time, broadband net connection. For two years, I've always managed to get through the odd quirks, re-booting as a last resort. But now, out of the blue, I click on my address bar's pulldown menu, and nothing happens. I set my browser to open on about:blank, by the way, because it's fast. When I typed in an URL and opened on that page, and tried the pulldown again, it opened this time, but completely blank. I immediately checked History, no problems.
Other factors? I installed a google toolbar a few months ago, no problems at all. There's only one other thing I can think of -- I touched some weird combination of keyboard keys without noticing.
I went into all the toolbar elements, tried various things, no help. Even went into control panel, snooped around, couldn't find anything appropriate.
RR, thanks for trying, but no go. AVG is my anti-virus program, never had a problem with it, checked settings for anything regarding ActiveX. I updated Ad-aware to the new SE version 3 weeks ago, and it scans much deeper than the old version, many thousand more files, too. But I just checked its settings, and there's nothing regarding ActiveX. Otherwise I have basic Zone Alarm as my preferred firewall, it just sits there and does its job well.
Check IE /Tools /internet options /Content /auto complete and see whats checked off
Thanks for the suggestion, CJ, everything was checked off. But a short while ago a buddy suggested that I do a virus scan, which I thought of yesterday, but I've already got 2 firewalls plus an email anti-virus pgm, plus ad-aware and spybot S & D, so I thought I was protected -- Wrong, the scan found the TZET.A worm, removed it, cleaned the file it was attached to, and presto, my address bar pulldown works fine now.
Did you try this, I had this problem, I went ot the selection marked "View" in my top bar, dropped that down and went to toolbars and put a check next to the address selection. Then what i did is see if that added it back. If it didn't I moused over to the border between the main part of the content and the spot where the toolbars are suposed to be and I dragged the bottom down a little bit and my address bar re-appeared.
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