I have a PC sales/service business in Baker City, Oregon. Normally I can figure software/hardware problems out on my own and consider my experience level to be at a somewhat expert level. I have a customer who has two PCs, both with the same problem, they have a browser problem where all web sites show as visited - (i.e. text links normally are blue and change color after visiting the link) I originally trouble shot this on the customers PC (who already had numerous programs installed) and I thought it was some problem with history, temp files, IE5.5 settings, driver conflict etc. I then stuck a new blank Hard drive in it and did a reload of win98 only - to avoid possible virus infection I ensured no drivers for sound card, video installed yet (using standard modem to get on the net)- only the win98 CD was used. Same problem occurs. After doing multiple reloads of windows 98, still no drivers installed yet, all links still appear as "visited". I reflashed the bios, no help. I changed video cards - no help. I have verified no virus. I have tried a diferent 98 CD. Nothing is fixing this.

I know you've checked the history etc, but is something like tweakui maybe clearing the history at logon? And (to really insult you!) could it be the colour for both read and unread links have been set the same? (In IE, Tools, Internet Options, Colors). Just a thought.

response to last reply : Sorry, this is a fresh install. Nothing else is installed, colors are set to default. It appears to be viral ? ? ? ?

I know it doesn't seem to apply in your case, but this is usually caused by a corrupt index.dat file in History\History.IE5 Doing a DELTREE c:\Windows\History\History.IE5 in DOS (not a window) is the fix. This is a rum one, isn't it?

deltree at DOS level did not do the trick. It sure seems like a cmos virus. I reflashed - no help...........HELP!!!

Have you tried viewing the HTML code on a page and checking the VLINK tag? On this page it's If the VLINK tag is the same value as the LINK tag, that's why they're the same colour - you could try manually changing it to see if that works. If they are different, it's maybe the display or the colour palette rather than the browser that's the problem. Good luck!

Sorry, I pasted the tag in and forgot that it would be read as html and not show on the page! It's below, with square brackets instead of angle brackets. [BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#000000" TEXT="#000000" VLINK="#A0A0A0"]