You are welcome. As Glee says, it is each cumulative IE update (which
replaces the prior) that is removing those Troubleshooters. Best keep
the latest cumulative, & just use one of the workarounds.


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Roger Fink" wrote in message
...
| Thanks, PCR. At 2:30 in the morning this is a little more than I can
deal
| with right now. Before I look at it again tomorrow, could you post the
| update numbers and perhaps give your opinion on just how bad it would
be to
| uninstall those updates as an alternative means of dealing with this
(and
| whether that would fix the problem)? What a mess.
|
| PCR wrote:
| Two or more separate Windows Update criticals took your
| Troubleshooters away, for security reasons.
|
| http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q188867
| Troubleshooting Windows 98 Startup Problems. This article contains a
| link to what it says is the equivalent of the Windows Help
| Troubleshooters...
| http://support.microsoft.com/support/windows/tshoot
| That's it. But, here is how to get them back when offline...
|
| First, "START, Find, F&F, Tshoot.inf"; R-Clk it & select "Install".
If
| you still don't have the Troubleshooters...
|
| (1) "START, Run, RegEdit"
| (2) Navigate to
|
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX
| Compatibility\{4B106874-DD36-11D0-8B44-00A024DD9EFF}
|
| Compatibility Flags 0x00000400 (1024) Dword value 400
|
| by
| (a) Clicking plus signs, beginning with "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE",
| (b) & ending with "ActiveX Compatibility".
| (c) Finally, click "{4B106874-DD36-11D0-8B44-00A024DD9EFF}" itself
in
| the left pane.
| (d) Now, you see "Compatibility Flags 0x00000400 (1024)" in the
| right pane.
| (e) "Registry menu, Export Registry file".
|
| This will create a ".reg" file of the entire Key that is
open...
| all the items in the right pane & all sub-keys in the left pane (if
| there is a plus sign). Give it a name & location of your choosing,
| even to the Desktop or My Documents. Then, to undo the following,
you
| will be able to simply click that file, to Merge it's contents back
| into the Registry.
|
| Actually-- name that one "NoTrouble.reg". It will look like...
|
| ...Start.....
| REGEDIT4
|
| [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX
| Compatibility\{4B106874-DD36-11D0-8B44-00A024DD9EFF}]
| "Compatibility Flags"=dword:00000400
|
| ...End.......
|
| (f) Close RegEdit. You now have an "undo" .reg, named
"NoTrouble.reg".
| (g) Make a copy of it called "Trouble.reg".
| (h) Open "Trouble.reg" in Notepad. Change the "dword" to look as
| follows... all zeros...
|
| ...Start..of "Trouble.reg"...
| REGEDIT4
|
| [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX
| Compatibility\{4B106874-DD36-11D0-8B44-00A024DD9EFF}]
| "Compatibility Flags"=dword:00000000
|
| ...End.......
|
| CAREFUL: That "HKEY" is one line, with TWO spaces only. One between
| "Internet Explorer", & the other between "ActiveX Compatibility".
Make
| sure it looks that way in Notepad, before you click to Save. Also,
you
| must have an empty line at bottom.
|
| Now, "Trouble.reg" gives you the Troubleshooters. "NoTrouble.reg"
will
| give you security by taking them away. Remember to undo it, after
you
| are done looking at the Troubleshooters.
|
|
| (2) By default, when a ".reg" is clicked, it will Merge into the
| Registry. To alter the default behavior: "START, Settings, Folder
| Options, File Types tab". Scroll to & click "Registration Entries",
| click the "Edit" button, select "edit" in the window & click the
"Set
| Default" button. Now, when you click a ".reg" file, it will open in
| Notepad for examination. To merge it into the Registry, R-Clk it &
| select "Merge".
|
|
| When it rains, it pours.
|
| Seemingly out of the blue, my computer can no longer play audio.
This
| includes sound from audio and audio/video files of all types,
either
| from the internet or from hard drive, and also audio CDs.
|
| In an effort to try and pinpoint the problem, I typed in
| "troubleshooter" in 98SE Help and got a variety of troubleshooters
| for various problems. But none of them work - when you select a
| radio button and click Next, you get a blank page, or, rarely, an
| error message. In the case of one of the modem troubleshooters the
| error message reads:
|
| Line 23
| Char 1
| Error Object doesn't support this property or method
| 'parent.t1.ApgtsX21.Run Query'
| Code 0
| URL:
|

| Do you want to continue running scripts on this page?
|
| (The "no sound" audio troubleshooter yielded a blank page)
|
| I suppose the logical order for problem solving here would be to
get
| the troubleshooter working again and then see if it comes up with
| anything for the lack of audio, but at this point any advice on any
| of the above is most welcome.
|
| Note: After some trepidation, because the accompanying warnings
| concerning the impairment of Help files in certain situations was
| not clear, I installed the most recent critical update. Don't know
| if that has anything to do with this, but I thought it was worth
| mentioning just in case.
|
|