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problems with IE6
Name: John Date: December 2, 2003 at 05:04:46 Pacific OS: Win Me CPU/Ram: 1.8/128
Comment:
Am running IE6 on my system and when I click on the icon to open it it searches and then nothing opens. Have tried through the programs list to open but same. Outlook express works fine. have tried to repair through add/remove but still no go even installed ME again but still no go, what could be the problem?
Name: Ed in Texas. Date: December 3, 2003 at 01:07:01 Pacific
Reply:
John, have you checked in tools>security to see if there is a tic in "do not open attachments..."? That is a default setting in 6.0 (thanks to uncle Bill!) which seems to be causing LOTS of problems. (untic it). As long as it is ticked, links will be blocked and IE won't like sites, pictures, etc. HTH. Ed in Texas.
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