Browser not completing "connection"

Here's another IE5 problem (sigh, like the old joke goes, I got a
million of 'em!) If anyone has any ideas short of reinstall, upgrade,
etc.

The problem is that IE5 has stopped completing certain steps, namely:

1. It fails to complete the connection when I click on a link in an
email message in OE5. Clicking on the link opens an IE browser window
with a blank in the Address bar. And there it stops. I have to paste
in the URL to complete the connection. The reason I think this
failure is somehow rooted in Internet Explorer rather than Outlook
Express is because of the second problem I am having:

2. IE fails to continue through and open the browser window when
logging in at Yahoo. For example, I enter the log-in info for Yahoo
mail. The browser window changes from log-in page to the next
connect/redirect page with only a url in the Address bar and stops
there. IE does send the log-in info because if I click on my yahoo
mail bookmark again, my mailbox opens. Same thing happens when trying
to log into a Yahoo Group. It logs me in, but will not go to the next
browser page, i.e., the group's home page. I have to again click on
the group bookmark to get that to open.

I have one idea of where the problem "might" lie but don't know enough
to pursue it. When I installed the Opera browser, it installed the
Sun version of Java (supposedly a more secure version of java, by the
way, than Microsoft's). My IE browser is the default browser, not
Opera. But Sun java is being used. At one point, I tried playing
around with the Java options in IE Internet Options, Advanced, to no
avail. checking the IE Java options, unchecking Sun Java, etc. Opera
completes the connections wtih no problem; it is IE that is faltering.

Mmmm. I just looked at Internet Options again so I could be more
specific and now I see only Sun Java options showing. Sun Java for
applets, and nothing checked under Sun Java VM. Prevously, the Sun
Java applet showed (don't remember about vm) but so did options for
Microsoft java and Microsoft Java VM.

Well, jeez. Whatta kettle of fish. I can uninstall Sun Java to see
if that's where the problem is in the IE browser not completing
connections, but I am not sure whether Microsoft java would
automatically be restored in IE. I might just put myself completely
out of business and be forced to start over from ground zero! Anyone
had any experience with this? Any ideas on what I can/should try
next?


BArun

1. You click on a hyperlink and an IE window doesn't even open: See
http://www.oehelp.com/ielnk.aspx

2. You click on a hyperlink and an IE window opens but it doesn't load:

Re-register all DLLs listed in http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679

Installing the latest Cumulative Patch for IE may solve the problem as a
side-effect. Check in at Windows Update.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)

BArun wrote:
Here's another IE5 problem (sigh, like the old joke goes, I got a
million of 'em!) If anyone has any ideas short of reinstall, upgrade,
etc.

The problem is that IE5 has stopped completing certain steps, namely:

1. It fails to complete the connection when I click on a link in an
email message in OE5. Clicking on the link opens an IE browser window
with a blank in the Address bar. And there it stops. I have to paste
in the URL to complete the connection. The reason I think this
failure is somehow rooted in Internet Explorer rather than Outlook
Express is because of the second problem I am having:

2. IE fails to continue through and open the browser window when
logging in at Yahoo. For example, I enter the log-in info for Yahoo
mail. The browser window changes from log-in page to the next
connect/redirect page with only a url in the Address bar and stops
there. IE does send the log-in info because if I click on my yahoo
mail bookmark again, my mailbox opens. Same thing happens when trying
to log into a Yahoo Group. It logs me in, but will not go to the next
browser page, i.e., the group's home page. I have to again click on
the group bookmark to get that to open.

I have one idea of where the problem "might" lie but don't know enough
to pursue it. When I installed the Opera browser, it installed the
Sun version of Java (supposedly a more secure version of java, by the
way, than Microsoft's). My IE browser is the default browser, not
Opera. But Sun java is being used. At one point, I tried playing
around with the Java options in IE Internet Options, Advanced, to no
avail. checking the IE Java options, unchecking Sun Java, etc. Opera
completes the connections wtih no problem; it is IE that is faltering.

Mmmm. I just looked at Internet Options again so I could be more
specific and now I see only Sun Java options showing. Sun Java for
applets, and nothing checked under Sun Java VM. Prevously, the Sun
Java applet showed (don't remember about vm) but so did options for
Microsoft java and Microsoft Java VM.

Well, jeez. Whatta kettle of fish. I can uninstall Sun Java to see
if that's where the problem is in the IE browser not completing
connections, but I am not sure whether Microsoft java would
automatically be restored in IE. I might just put myself completely
out of business and be forced to start over from ground zero! Anyone
had any experience with this? Any ideas on what I can/should try
next?


BArun