I've got a curious problem with Internet Explorer.
I'm using Windows XP SP2 and I figured out my problem is not concerning a specific version of IE.
I started out with IE7 running just great for several months but somehow for the last two days I lost active contents of certain websites.
Windows Update for instance loads, but when the status bar says "done" there's nothing on the screen. The same happens with the first website IE shows (in my case doesn't show) after re-installing or resetting IE7,
http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspxOther Microsoft websites like
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx seem to run without any glitches untill I try to click one of the javascript links (nothing happens)
Google and many other websites seem to work just fine, untill I run into scripts.
I don't get error messages, IE doesn't crash, scripts just don't seem to run.
Adsense advertisements for instance don't show (which would be nice if I didn't need it to show on websites I'm making myself) and active menu's in websites don't either.
When I go to
http://www.java.com/en/ I'm not only unable to see all the applets running on the website, I also notice the website being a mess as if it is missing the CSS file.
https://www.google.com/adsense/ loads, but I don't see the block where I can fill in my account name and password.
What I've done so far:
- Resetted the Internet Explorer settings in the advanced internet options menu (several times)
- Restored advanced settings in the advanced internet options menu.
- cleaned all Internet explorer files.
- ran virusscanner (I've got Norton AV running at all times with daily scans scheduled) to scan on all drives, nothing found.
- ran Hitman Pro throughout the night cleaning the computer of spy- and ad-ware (I do this every week).
- lowered security and privacy to lowest settings.
- ran LSPFix and WinSockX.
- re-installed Java (the verification on Java's website tells me installation was succesfull)
- Un-installed IE7, found same problem with IE6 and re-installed IE7.
- ran installation program for IE7 which tells me it cannot download and install updates. It tells me to go to the Windows Update site (which of course doesn't work on my computer).
- and most of this I've done in both normal and safe mode.
- Switched off popup-blocker (though I know it's pretty unlikely that that is the problem).
As you can see I've done a lot already to fix this problem but nothing so far has even showed me some improvement.
I'm starting to get pretty desperate to get this to work.
Please, if somebody has an idea as to what could be wrong give me a reply.
ps... I know I know... there's always Firefox, but first... I need IE to work to make websites and check my pages and second... that's what I'm using since my IE problems anyways.
