www.facebook.com/plugins/...... is a nuisance.

travelwide188 · Apr 1, 2011

i go to www.washingtonpost.com, click on a story, finish with it, click the BACK ARROW in upper left hand corner, and.....NOTHING HAPPENS. I move to the right a bit and click the little DOWN ARROW and see rows of www.facebook.com/plugins/activi or /like.ph or .... I must go down past several of these facebook/plugins till I get to www.washingtonpost.com to return to Washington Post's site. Doing this for each article over the past several months is an enormous time-waster. I don't know where the facebook stuff comes from. I search my PC for facebook and nothing comes up. Until recently this was the only site that had the problem, but now there are a few more. How can I get rid of the encroachment? Thanks

Go The Power · Apr 1, 2011

Hello and welcome to the forum.

Is this IE8 or 9?

travelwide188 · Apr 2, 2011

Go The Power said:
Hello and welcome to the forum.

Is this IE8 or 9?

IE8...

Go The Power · Apr 2, 2011

Please do this:

Reset Internet Explorer Settings - IEBlog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

travelwide188 · Apr 3, 2011

Go The Power said:
Please do this:

Reset Internet Explorer Settings - IEBlog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Thanks, i went to where you suggested, but it says i would have to reset everything, permanently. i don't want to lose my favorites, for example. i downloaded IE9, and i still have the same problem. is there no other way to solve the problem?

Go The Power · Apr 3, 2011

You shouldnt loose your favorites from resetting

koala · Apr 4, 2011

If you're worried about losing your favorites, make a backup before doing anything else.

Hit the alt key to bring up the menu bar at the top of the screen, then go to File > Import/Export > 'Export to a file', select Favorites, make a note of where the backup file is going to be saved, then click the Export button.

You can then copy the backup html file to a USB stick for extra security.

travelwide188 · Apr 5, 2011

koala and Power,
I reset IE9 as suggested but still have the same problem. After viewing an article from www.washingtonpost.com, I move the mouse pointer over the Back button to return to the previous washingtonpost page and see the www.facebook.com/plugins/.... So when I click the Back button nothing happens.

To return to the previous washingtonpost page, I must continue clicking till I exhaust the accumulated facebookplugins. This is where I miss the little drop-down button of IE8 which showed the history of the Backs. Then I could see a list of each of the facebookplugins, skip over them and click directly on last washingtonpost page, using only one extra click instead of 5 of 6 Backclicks that I must use now.

BTW, I did not lose the Favorties.

Thanks for trying to help.

koala · Apr 5, 2011

IE9 doesn't have the little drop-down button that IE8 had. Microsoft has removed this to streamline the appearance of the browser (or make it less intuitive to use, depending on your point of view).

Instead, you just need to right-click the Back button. This will popup a list of all previous pages, then you can select the one you want to return to.

If you haven't done so already, you should make a backup of your favorites and save it on a USB stick. It's always good to have a backup of important items. Computers crash and hard drives die, by which time it's too late to recover data.

Go The Power · Apr 5, 2011

Click Here to download ToolbarCop. Save it to your desktop.
Go to your desktop and extract toolbarcop.zip.
Go to the extracted files
Double click on Toolbarcop.exe
Click on the notepad symbol:
A notepad file should pop up, please copy and paste Everything from the notepad file and paste it back into this thread.

travelwide188 · Apr 6, 2011

Power,
I think this is what you wanted. Also, besides
the facebook nuisance, a couple of weeks ago I started getting some twitter nuisances, also preventing me from going back to a previous page.

----------------------------------------
Blog This
Browser Extension
{219C3416-8CB2-491A-A3C7-D9FCDDC9D600}
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Writer\WriterBrowserExtension.dll
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
Skype Plug-In
Browser Extension
{898EA8C8-E7FF-479B-8935-AEC46303B9E5}
C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Toolbars\Internet Explorer\skypeieplugin.dll
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
Research
Browser Extension
{92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263}
C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\Office12\REFIEBAR.DLL
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
(Empty)
Toolbar
{21FA44EF-376D-4D53-9B0F-8A89D3229068}
(empty)
Enabled
Current User
----------------------------------------
CelticMusicRadio Toolbar
Toolbar
{9295372B-8320-48AF-A7DC-C0B739124699}
C:\Program Files (x86)\CelticMusicRadio\prxtbCelt.dll
Enabled
Current User
----------------------------------------
Bing Bar
Toolbar
{8DCB7100-DF86-4384-8842-8FA844297B3F}
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\BingBar\BingExt.dll"
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
CelticMusicRadio Toolbar
Toolbar
{9295372B-8320-48AF-A7DC-C0B739124699}
C:\Program Files (x86)\CelticMusicRadio\prxtbCelt.dll
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
Conduit Engine
Toolbar
{30F9B915-B755-4826-820B-08FBA6BD249D}
C:\Program Files (x86)\ConduitEngine\prxConduitEngine.dll
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
Adobe PDF Link Helper
BHO
{18DF081C-E8AD-4283-A596-FA578C2EBDC3}
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEHelperShim.dll
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
Conduit Engine
BHO
{30F9B915-B755-4826-820B-08FBA6BD249D}
C:\Program Files (x86)\ConduitEngine\prxConduitEngine.dll
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
(Empty)
BHO
{5C255C8A-E604-49B4-9D64-90988571CECB}
(empty)
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
Windows Live ID Sign-in Helper
BHO
{9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6}
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
CelticMusicRadio Toolbar
BHO
{9295372B-8320-48AF-A7DC-C0B739124699}
C:\Program Files (x86)\CelticMusicRadio\prxtbCelt.dll
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
Skype Plug-In
BHO
{AE805869-2E5C-4ED4-8F7B-F1F7851A4497}
C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Toolbars\Internet Explorer\skypeieplugin.dll
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
Bing Bar Helper
BHO
{D2CE3E00-F94A-4740-988E-03DC2F38C34F}
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\BingBar\BingExt.dll"
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper
BHO
{DBC80044-A445-435B-BC74-9C25C1C588A9}
C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\jp2ssv.dll
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
Sidebar
Run - Startup
C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe /autoRun
Enabled
Current User
----------------------------------------
Power2GoExpress
Run - Startup
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Power2GoExpress
Enabled
Current User
----------------------------------------
Microsoft Pinyin IME Migration
Run - Startup
C:\PROGRA~2\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\IME12\IMESC\IMSCMIG.EXE /INSTALL
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
Setwallpaper
Run - Startup
c:\programdata\SetWallpaper.cmd
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
Adobe ARM
Run - Startup
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\AdobeARM.exe"
Enabled
All Users
----------------------------------------
SunJavaUpdateSched
Run - Startup
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Java\Java Update\jusched.exe"
Enabled
All Users

travelwide188 · Apr 6, 2011

koala,
I saved the favorites, and will move it to my USB stick. Also, thanks for the right-click of the Back button tip. Is information like your tip from the shortcuts help page? I must learn more about the details of IE9.

koala · Apr 6, 2011

travelwide188 said:
Is information like your tip from the shortcuts help page?

No, just trial and error. Right-clicking gives options in most programs, so it seemed logical that it would do something in IE9.

Go The Power · Apr 7, 2011

Open IE like this:

Click Start, All programs, Accessories, System tools and click on Internet Explore (No Addons)

Does the same thing happen.

There are alot of tool bars installed in IE, what ones do you use?

travelwide188 · Apr 7, 2011

I did your suggestion and got a message "Internet Explorer is currently running without add-ons". I went to washingtonopost.com, clicked on an article, back-clicked, and got the same www.facebook.com/plugin...

The only toolbar I normally have turned on is the Favorites Toolbar. Incidentally, the CelticMusicRadio Toolbar and Conduit Engine Toolbar shown above from Toolbarcop, I downloaded just a few days ago and have since uninstalled them.

Go The Power · Apr 8, 2011

Is this IE8 or IE9, in the first post you say it is IE8, but then in your other replies you say IE9? :smile:

travelwide188 · Apr 8, 2011

Initially it was IE8; shortly after beginning this thread I downloaded and have been using IE9, thinking it might solve the problem.

Go The Power · Apr 8, 2011

Clean TEMP files

Click Here to download ATF Cleaner by Atribune. Save it to your Desktop.

Go to your desktop and double click on ATF-Cleaner.exe.

Main

Under Main. Click Select All, then click Empty

travelwide188 · Apr 10, 2011

I did your suggestion and still have the problem. Back on 15 February, I contacted Washington Post about the problem and they said to clear cache and cookies. I did that with no change in the problem. I replied the negative results, but received no further reply from them.

www.washingtonpost.com is the only site giving the problem. I thought that another site also had the problem, but it occurs only when I click on an article to read and it redirects me to www.washingtonpost.com.

sobeit · Apr 10, 2011

until you can solve the issue, just right click on the article you want to read and open in new tab. when finished just close the tab.

www.facebook.com/plugins/...... is a nuisance.

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