Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
No cursor in internet explorer
Name: Tom14 Date: October 21, 2004 at 09:06:29 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: P4/254
Comment:
We are having problems on some machines after the new Windows service packs are installed and you can't get a cursor in internet explorer text boxes. If you click in a text box like google, no cursor comes up. Also, we have noticed problems with Outlook with intermittent printing and no cursor in the to cc and subject lines.
If we reinstall internet explorer, it fixes the problem - even fixes the Outlook issues. But, it seems to be happening to us on a lot of machines and its a pain to have to reinstall ie on each machine. What service pack would cause this? Or is there something we can do before installing the service packs?
If you're having the same problem with many machines (in a network I am guessing) have you checked for a virus in the system? One machine may be just a quirk, but more than that with the same issue in the same location makes me wonder...
Summary: I can download animated Gifs in outlook Express and messenger ., but not in Internet Explorer 6 even though i have tried diable and then renable Play animations in web pages .I only get the first ...
Summary: Each and everytime that I go to a web page where there should be a picture, my Internet Explorer displays it for a second then makes it disappear. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Explorer several t...
Summary: I was wondering why a lot of times Internet Explorer doesn't display any textareas or maybe it's iframes. When I try to compose a message in Yahoo mail, I don't get any textareas to type my message i...