IE6 in Win2k SP4

quietas · 03-12-2009, 02:07 PM

Hi folks, I've got an odd issue I have not been able to fix.

It involves IE 6 on Win2k with SP4 specifically. I have even seen it happen on several computers. The computer in question is a clean install this morning from a Dell OEM win 2k SP4 disc. Office XP installed and SP3 applied. 7zip, Adobe Flash 10, Acrobat Reader 9, and Firefox installed. All works except IE6 stopped working earlier.

I was in the process of applying security updates and after one of the restarts IE6 stops functioning correctly.

Some pages such as http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and www.google.com/ig start to load then get in a refresh loop as though someone were hitting F5 as fast as possible. When I say fast the loading text in the lower left is a blur with nothing other than a white page. IE6 is then locked and I have to end task.

Now the odd part is that pages like www.google.com work, as well as www.msn.com. They load, but the search buttons do not work.

I have run every variety of malware and anti virus scanner on it, NoD32 is installed and updated. I tried the "sfc /scannow" command and it didn't do anything. I removed most of the software, tried it, no luck, then reinstalled, still broken.

As I said this is a clean installed, just a matter of a few hours old. Everything was installed from clean files stored on our server and used for multiple systems weekly. The only internet traffic has been to MSN, Windows Update, Google, and Adobe. On top of all of this I have seen this happen before, but only on older installs where a reinstall cleaned it up.

~ Culley

quietas · 03-12-2009, 03:05 PM

To follow it up, I even uninstalled IE6 using "w2kexcp.exe /u". IE5 wouldn't load the windowsupdate site. I reinstalled IE6 and it has the same problems. After the automatic updates ran, I again have the same problems.

quietas · 03-16-2009, 12:26 PM

Still no luck on my end. I did find another computer which had the problem, but it was an old install. Reinstalling fixed that one for some reason, but seemed to cause the problem on my original machine.

03-12-2009, 02:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
quietas Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 3 OS: Win2k SP4, Win XP SP3, Vista SP1	IE6 in Win2k SP4 Hi folks, I've got an odd issue I have not been able to fix. It involves IE 6 on Win2k with SP4 specifically. I have even seen it happen on several computers. The computer in question is a clean install this morning from a Dell OEM win 2k SP4 disc. Office XP installed and SP3 applied. 7zip, Adobe Flash 10, Acrobat Reader 9, and Firefox installed. All works except IE6 stopped working earlier. I was in the process of applying security updates and after one of the restarts IE6 stops functioning correctly. Some pages such as http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and www.google.com/ig start to load then get in a refresh loop as though someone were hitting F5 as fast as possible. When I say fast the loading text in the lower left is a blur with nothing other than a white page. IE6 is then locked and I have to end task. Now the odd part is that pages like www.google.com work, as well as www.msn.com. They load, but the search buttons do not work. I have run every variety of malware and anti virus scanner on it, NoD32 is installed and updated. I tried the "sfc /scannow" command and it didn't do anything. I removed most of the software, tried it, no luck, then reinstalled, still broken. As I said this is a clean installed, just a matter of a few hours old. Everything was installed from clean files stored on our server and used for multiple systems weekly. The only internet traffic has been to MSN, Windows Update, Google, and Adobe. On top of all of this I have seen this happen before, but only on older installs where a reinstall cleaned it up. ~ Culley

03-12-2009, 03:05 PM	#2 (permalink)
quietas Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 3 OS: Win2k SP4, Win XP SP3, Vista SP1	Re: IE6 in Win2k SP4 To follow it up, I even uninstalled IE6 using "w2kexcp.exe /u". IE5 wouldn't load the windowsupdate site. I reinstalled IE6 and it has the same problems. After the automatic updates ran, I again have the same problems.

03-16-2009, 12:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
quietas Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 3 OS: Win2k SP4, Win XP SP3, Vista SP1	Re: IE6 in Win2k SP4 Still no luck on my end. I did find another computer which had the problem, but it was an old install. Reinstalling fixed that one for some reason, but seemed to cause the problem on my original machine.