Windows Update is coming up blank, and so is my ISP homepage that uses strange features.

Most other pages come up OK, but Windows Update just comes up blank and so does
my ISP home page that uses strange features (flash?)

"Cymbal Man Freq." Don't g wrote in
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Most other pages come up OK, but Windows Update just comes up blank
and so does my ISP home page that uses strange features (flash?)

I thought maybe my Panda Platinum 2006 Internet Security included a pop-up
blocker (that is totally inaccessible) that was blocking my access to the two
pages listed. Panda has NO WAY of contacting them about this problem for
free...just like Symantec, they don't want to hear about problems their products
cause ... for free.

So I did the next best thing, I ran a Microsoft Interent Explorer 6 repair
proceedure form Add/Remove Programs and got the error message:
"Internet Explorer 6 could not be repaired. Please run Setup again to reinstall
all components."

In the details section of that message, it read:
"An error has occurred while setting up C:\Windows\System\shdocvw.dll. This
error has been logged, the installation will continue."

Hmm, run Setup...the installation will continue... (I'm confused now.)

I've got a feeling I'm going to have to ditch this Panda Internet Security
before the week is out. But I had a problem accessing Windows Update shortly
before I installed Panda but before I uninstalled my other firewall that was
replaced by another firewall (that slowed my computer to a crawl), but shortly
after the last, most recent, Windows Critical update. Did the Windows Update
cause a scandal on my computer so that I can no longer visit Windows Update? Is
this how M$ tells us our OS is too old? They just disable WU on our computer?
What happens to all those XP Home machines at the end of next year? Oh, the
software company can just terminate our license with an update!

http://www.rr.com/index.cfm

Comes up blank ^.
But the source code is below.



html
body
script language="VBScript"
!-- // Visual basic helper required to detect Flash Player ActiveX control
version information
Function VBGetSwfVer(i)
on error resume next
Dim swControl, swVersion
swVersion = 0

set swControl = CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." + CStr(i))
if (IsObject(swControl)) then
swVersion = swControl.GetVariable("$version")
end if
VBGetSwfVer = swVersion
End Function
// --
/script
script language="JavaScript"
var isIE = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") != -1) ? true : false;
var isWin = (navigator.appVersion.toLowerCase().indexOf("win") != -1) ? true :
false;
var isOpera = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera") != -1) ? true : false;
// JavaScript helper required to detect Flash Player PlugIn version information
function JSGetSwfVer(i){
// NS/Opera version = 3 check for Flash plugin in plugin array
if (navigator.plugins != null && navigator.plugins.length 0) {
if (navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"] ||
navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"]) {
var swVer2 = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"] ? " 2.0"
: "";
var flashDescription = navigator.plugins["Shockwave
Flash" + swVer2].description;
descArray = flashDescription.split(" ");
tempArrayMajor = descArray[2].split(".");
versionMajor = tempArrayMajor[0];
if ( descArray[3] != "" ) {
tempArrayMinor = descArray[3].split("r");
} else {
tempArrayMinor = descArray[4].split("r");
}
versionMinor = tempArrayMinor[1] 0 ? tempArrayMinor[1]
: 0;
//flashVer = parseFloat(versionMajor + "." +
versionMinor);
flashVer = versionMajor;
} else {
flashVer = -1;
}
}
// MSN/WebTV 2.6 supports Flash 4
else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv/2.6") != -1)
flashVer = 4;
// WebTV 2.5 supports Flash 3
else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv/2.5") != -1)
flashVer = 3;
// older WebTV supports Flash 2
else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv" ) != -1)
flashVer = 2;
// Can't detect in all other cases
else {

flashVer = -1;
}

return flashVer;
}
function getFlashVersion() {

if (isIE && isWin && !isOpera) {
for (i=10;i0;i--) {
fullversionStr = VBGetSwfVer(i);
}

mymatch = fullversionStr.toString().match(/ (\d+),(\d+)/);
versionStr =mymatch[1];
} else {
for (i=10;i0;i--) {

versionStr = JSGetSwfVer(i);
}
}
return versionStr;
}
flashVersion = getFlashVersion();
//alert(flashVersion);
function getCookie(name) {
var cname = name + "=";
var dc = document.cookie;
if (dc.length 0) {
begin = dc.indexOf(cname);
if (begin != -1) {
begin += cname.length;
end = dc.indexOf(";", begin);
if (end == -1) end = dc.length;
return unescape(dc.substring(begin, end));
}
}
return null;
}
var pass = null;
var division = null;
var startView = null;
var searchView = null;
var shopsearchView = null;
var storyId = null;
var queryString = "?";
if ((location.search.substring(1) != "") && (location.search.substring(1) !=
null)) {
var args = new Object();
query = location.search.substring(1);
var pairs = query.split("&");
for (var i = 0; i pairs.length; i++ ) {
var pos = pairs[i].indexOf('=');
if (pos == -1) continue;
var argname = pairs[i].substring(0,pos);
var value = pairs[i].substring(pos +1);
args[argname] = unescape(value);
}
//alert(args.division + ' ' + args.pass);
if (args.pass) {
pass = args.pass;
}
if (args.division) {
if (queryString == "?") {
queryString = "?division=" + args.division;
} else {
queryString = queryString + "&division=" + args.division;
}
}
if (args.startView) {
if (queryString == "?") {
queryString = "?startView=" + args.startView;
} else {
queryString = queryString + "&startView=" + args.startView;
}
}
if (args.searchView) {
if (queryString == "?") {
queryString = "?searchView=" + args.searchView;
} else {
queryString = queryString + "&searchView=" + args.searchView;
}
}
if (args.shopsearchView) {
if (queryString == "?") {
queryString = "?shopsearchView=" + args.shopsearchView;
} else {
queryString = queryString + "&shopsearchView=" + args.shopsearchView;
}
}
if (args.sitesearchView) {
if (queryString == "?") {
queryString = "?sitesearchView=" + args.sitesearchView;
} else {
queryString = queryString + "&sitesearchView=" + args.sitesearchView;
}
}
if (args.videosearchView) {
if (queryString == "?") {
queryString = "?videosearchView=" + args.videosearchView;
} else {
queryString = queryString + "&videosearchView=" + args.videosearchView;
}
}
if (args.news) {
if (queryString == "?") {
queryString = "?news=" + args.news;
} else {
queryString = queryString + "&news=" + args.news;
}
}
if (args.CMP) {
if (queryString == "?") {
queryString = "?CMP=" + args.CMP;
} else {
queryString = queryString + "&CMP=" + args.CMP;
}
}
}
if (( getCookie("rrip") != null ) || (pass != null)) {
if (queryString == "?") queryString = "";

if ((getCookie("rrHTML") != null) || (getCookie("rrLite") != null)) {
goURL = "/html/check.cfm" + queryString;
location.replace(goURL);
} else if (flashVersion == 6) {
goURL = "6.html" + queryString;
location.replace(goURL);
} else if (flashVersion 6) {
goURL = "/flash/index.cfm" + queryString;
location.replace(goURL);
} else {
goURL = "/html/check.cfm" + queryString;
location.replace(goURL);
}
} else {
var appendedQuery = "";
if (queryString != "?") {
appendedQuery = queryString;
}
window.location = 'http://quantum.rr.com/ipcheck/index.html' +
appendedQuery;

}
/script
/body
/html

"Cymbal Man Freq." Don't g wrote in
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http://www.rr.com/index.cfm

Comes up blank ^.

I think you somehow disabled scripting. When I go to that page, everything
works OK, but when I disable scripting, and reenter that page, it's blank.

"Ingeborg" wrote in message
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| "Cymbal Man Freq." Don't g wrote in
| :
|
|
| http://www.rr.com/index.cfm
|
| Comes up blank ^.
|
| I think you somehow disabled scripting. When I go to that page, everything
| works OK, but when I disable scripting, and reenter that page, it's blank.


I uninstalled Flash with an .exe program, then installed Flash 8, then rebooted
and now those pages seem to work. It might take a bit more time for me to see if
they really work properly. Windows Update isn't blank anymore, but it won't go
past 0% when scanning my computer for the updates. Maybe there are so many
updates it has to find before it makes a list of those that I don't have....,
but it ain't going past 0%.

"Ingeborg" wrote in message

"Cymbal Man Freq." Don't g wrote in
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http://www.rr.com/index.cfm

Comes up blank ^.

I think you somehow disabled scripting. When I go to that page,
everything works OK, but when I disable scripting, and reenter that
page, it's blank.

OK, the User I was using last night still won't work with these pages. My
Default User is the one with the problems with Windows Update not scanning. This
NAMED User I'm using now will not show the page or Windows Update. I checked to
enable scripting from the Custom Level of the Security Tab in Internet Options,
and those radio buttons were already in the enabled position. I unhooked my
modem and disabled my firewall and ran Internet Explorer 6 Repair and it
complete this time without an error message, but the reboot hung just before the
login screen, and I had to force reboot again.

"Cymbal Man Freq." Don't g wrote in message
...
|
|
| "Ingeborg" wrote in message
|
| "Cymbal Man Freq." Don't g wrote in
| :
|
|
| http://www.rr.com/index.cfm
|
| Comes up blank ^.
|
| I think you somehow disabled scripting. When I go to that page,
| everything works OK, but when I disable scripting, and reenter that
| page, it's blank.
|
| OK, the User I was using last night still won't work with these pages. My
| Default User is the one with the problems with Windows Update not scanning.
This
| NAMED User I'm using now will not show the page or Windows Update. I checked
to
| enable scripting from the Custom Level of the Security Tab in Internet
Options,
| and those radio buttons were already in the enabled position. I unhooked my
| modem and disabled my firewall and ran Internet Explorer 6 Repair and it
| complete this time without an error message, but the reboot hung just before
the
| login screen, and I had to force reboot again.
|

I uninstalled Internet Explorer Q896688, still no improvement at this address:
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp

I went to Safe Mode, renamed schannel.dll & rsabase.dll & rsaenh.dll to dot old
(.old) extensions, then rebooted. I downloaded (or I should have first saved to
disk before renaming files) IE6 SP1 off of the internet. I executed that program
to reinstall all items, and it was an 18 MB download to me. I rebooted. I
registered jscript.dll and mshtml.dll in the Run box with the regsvr32 word
before each .dll registered. I downloaded and installed Windows Script 5.6 and
rebooted. I loosened some restrictions in Security for Active X and Active
Scripting, and also in my firewall.

Now I can access Windows Update after nearly giving up that I'd never get past
the 0-bit cipher problem. Error #: 0x800B004 (KB Q174360) also was in my way at
the Windows Update Site after installing IE6.

My ISP webpage works now too, for both users.

I am leaving 4 Critical Updates un-downloaded because they have caused severe
problems to me in the recent and far past.

I haven't lost my OE settings at all.

I have just spent days and days on progressively more severe computer problems
since just before the latest critical update was released.