BriW
@pacbell.net
|  [IE] IE6 acting strange on mom's WIN98 computer
IE6 acting strange on mom's WIN98 computer.
I hope someone can help me figure this one out. I have a family website where I am posting images. Everybody else in the family can access & see the website OK ... except my mom's old WIN98, IE6 computer.
Whenever she tries the URL, a popup flashes quickly (can't see what it says), and then IE6 appears to go & access the local hard-drive instead. This is what the address bar on IE6 says:
C:\WINDOWS\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\41AJCLI7\home[1].htm
I've tried clearing the cache, and the history, and also tried to delete the file above on her hard-drive.
Any help is most appreciated! |
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auggy
Premium,Mod
join:2001-12-24
Brockville, ON
 ·Bell Sympatico
Host:
Microsoft help
edit:
April 28th, @10:22PM
| When you delete the Temporary Internet Files are you choosing "Delete all offline content" content also?
See following link:
»www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm
If problems persist see the section "Win98 users that need to delete the Temporary Internet Files" to completely delete the Temporary Internet Files and index.dat. |
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Graycode
join:2006-04-17
 ·net2phone
| reply to BriW
That may be due to confusion about "home". If you built your site with a page named "home.htm" you could try renaming it on the site as something other than "home".
In the registry there is these values:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes]
"ftp"="ftp://"
"gopher"="gopher://"
"home"="http://"
"mosaic"="http://"
"www"="http://"
If you're brave and daring, you could delete or rename the entry defining a protocol for "home". |
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BriW
@pacbell.net
| Thanks for the suggestions!
I am not sure if the problem is from my website, or my Mom's computer ... I tried both suggestions.
Deleting "all offline content" as well as the Temporary Internet files and index.dat as suggested did not cure the problem.
I changed all my web pages to reflect new file name, and uploaded them. I changed all files and references from "home.htm" to "home1.htm". Unfortunately, this did not cure the problem either.
I tried to view/stop the flashing popup message, and it sure looks similar to a "File Download" message box ... flashes off, and then displays local Temporary Internet File in IE.
Any other ideas about this strange behavior? Thanks. |
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auggy
Premium,Mod
join:2001-12-24
Brockville, ON | Does the following help any?:
IE > Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > remove the checkmark in front of "Enable third party browser extensions" > OK then restart IE.
If that does not help re-enable third party browser extensions. |
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BriW
@pacbell.net
| Thank you for the suggestion auggy.
I tried the Enable and Disable, restarting IE and even rebooting ... and unfortunately it is still behaving the same.
It behaves like it access my website, then downloads (I assume the webpage) into the harddrive, and then access the harddrive (and not the content on the website which has the links to all the jpeg images and gifs for the menu).
Any thing else for me to try, would be appreciated! |
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McSummation
Mmmm, Zeebas Are Tastee.
Premium,MVM
join:2003-08-13
Round Rock, TX | If you gave me the web address, I would try it on my Win98 box and see if I can shed some light on it that way. |
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everettstudi
join:2000-11-22
Phoenix, AZ | reply to BriW
I have a tri boot with win 98 as one - If McS cannot help
E-mail thru DSLreports.
As a side note - consider "K-Meleon" install as a second browser and try that - light and does work with win 98.
Everett |
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BriW
@pacbell.net
| reply to BriW
Thank you McSummation and Everett. I just sent you an E-mail with the URL of my webpage.
I was poking around with the website's control panel and noticed a strange file named ".htacess" located in the WWW (root?) directory. I don't know if this information helps, but when I opened this file, I noticed these line:
(less-than-sign)Files 403.shtml(greater-than-sign)
order allow,deny
allow from all
(less-than-sign)Files(greater-than-sign)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
I don't know what they mean, but maybe some clues? Thanks again for any help or ideas. |
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McSummation
Mmmm, Zeebas Are Tastee.
Premium,MVM
join:2003-08-13
Round Rock, TX | It's not just IE on Win98 that does this. It also does it on my Firefox on XP system.
Do you have an index.html file in the root of your web site?
The home1.htm file is being downloaded. How is it referenced on the web site? |
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everettstudi
join:2000-11-22
Phoenix, AZ
| reply to BriW
I've just sent you an E-mail - IE 7 does work for me, however IE 6 and 3 other browsers do not.
Rename home1.htm to index.html
If this does NOT work ask the mods to please move to:
Webmasters and Developers
Good luck
Everett |
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BriW
@pacbell.net
| Hi Everett and McSummation!
I tried changing home1.htm to index.htm, plus I changed all the webpages referencing it. Darn! That did not correct the problem either.
Thank you for all your help and suggestions.
Can you kindly move this to the Webmasters and Developers? Please also let me know if you come up with any more ideas to try. (also, can you tell me exactly which browser combination had this problem?) Thanks again! |
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McSummation
Mmmm, Zeebas Are Tastee.
Premium,MVM
join:2003-08-13
Round Rock, TX | I don't know what you changed, but it still wants to download home1.htm. |
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bcastner
Premium,MVM
join:2002-09-25
Chevy Chase, MD
clubs:  | reply to BriW
Run MS-MVP Ramesh's IEFix and see if matters improved:
»windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm |
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BriW
@pacbell.net
| Thank your for the IEFix suggestion bcastner. I won't be able to go over and try it until next week.
However, since it also appears on McSummation's Firefox and everettstudi's 3 other browsers ... it is beginning to sound like it is not just my IE.
I have sent a e-mail to my website's host, and hope they may have a answer to report. |
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BriW
@pacbell.net
| reply to BriW
Moderator: Please move this thread to "Webmasters and Developers"
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Thank you all for your suggestions and help. I received a reply from my server host, and they said there is nothing wrong on their end, and they claim that it is probably a browser compatibility issue.
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BriW
@pacbell.net
| reply to BriW
Thank you for moving me to "Webmasters and Developers"
I was looking at a file named ".htaccess" and I was wondering if something in there would cause the browser behavior of downloading and then trying to access the local cache, instead of the real webpage? |
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McSummation
Mmmm, Zeebas Are Tastee.
Premium,MVM
join:2003-08-13
Round Rock, TX | It's possible. How about posting the contents of the file? |
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JAAulde
yum yum yum yum yum
Premium,MVM
join:2001-05-09
Hagerstown, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to BriW
If you could, please PM/Email me a link to the site as well (or just post it tot his thread if privacy isn't too much of an issue). I'd like to take a look at the headers and such involved in the transfer. FWIW, I think your host is full of it.
jim |
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BriW
@pacbell.net
| reply to BriW
I have changed things back to the original condition on my website, with "home.htm" as the starting point.
Thank you JAAulde, I will e-mail you the URL also.
I had some problems trying to copy the contents of .htaccess file ... so everywhere you see a "{" or "}" means that I had to substitute inside it, so that it will show up on this post.
This .htaccess file was found in my public_html directory, and also in my www directory (which I think is a shortcut to the same public_html directory???)
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RewriteEngine on
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .htm
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .htm
# -FrontPage-
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*
{Lbkt}Limit GET POST{Rbkt}
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
{Lbkt}/Limit{Rbkt}
{Lbkt}Limit PUT DELETE{Rbkt}
order deny,allow
deny from all
{Lbkt}/Limit{Rbkt}
AuthName www.{mysite}.com
AuthUserFile /home/{myname}/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/{myname}/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp
Options All
{Lbkt}Files 403.shtml{Rbkt}
order allow,deny
allow from all
{Lbkt}/Files{Rbkt}
deny from 66.83.250.246
deny from 61.40.93.12
deny from 24.190.235.224
deny from 111.111.111.3
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^/?$ {h-t-t-p-:}//{mysite}.com/Album_Projects/home.htm [R=302,L] |
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