Trying to help a friend of a friend with this problem of basic graphics and invisible links in IE8 and FF on a WinXP SP3 laptop. The attached picture makes it easier to understand. It's a shot of a facebook page with basic lines and an invisible link that I clicked on next to the sort link. I removed all the pictures and comments for privacy reasons, but it just looks odd anyways. Another issue that comes up is that when a pop up ad or overlay is on screen there is no 'x' to close, a box to type in text, or a submit button. I have tried resetting to defaults, running IE8 with addons disabled, rebooting in safe mode with networking, it always looks the same in either IE or FF. The computer did not have antivirus on it, so I did install Microsoft Security Essentials. Unfortunately, they have dial up speeds for internet connection and after 20 minutes of waiting for the definitions to download I had to leave, telling them to run a scan after it completed. I haven't seen this type of thing before and I am not sure why it would affect both browsers. What else could I try?
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