Another cry for help received via email... " You are my last best hope... I am just a regular guy from NY (not the city) with a problem. My homepage in IE7 is locked on a page I dont want. I try to change it in Internet options and it even says the homepage I want but it always goes to this other...
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05-05-2008
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Over the past few days I have seen a spike in the number of emails asking for help with website certificates. For example, two correspondents have written: " Thanks for providing the information about problems with certificates of IE7 in your website. I tried to follow your instructions to access...
Here is today's email question: "Dear Sandi, I would really appreciate your help. I've been trying for ages to find out what is wrong with my IE7 but there doesn't seem to be anything useful on the internet that I can find... Whenever I open IE I get a message saying: Assert in LSP false...
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08-21-2007
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Today's email question is: "I wonder if you can help me. When I try to save a web address in my Favorites in IE7 I get the error "Unable to create 'Internet Explorer 7': Unspecified Error". I'm using Vista Ultimate and not sure what the problem is. Searched your Knowledge...
I received an email today that says: "I have an issue that occurred once I upgraded to Internet Explorer 7 on my computer running Windows XP Media Center Edition. For some reason, I can no longer change the icon for any of my IE shortcuts that I have on my desktop. I know that this is not major...
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08-02-2007
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How can I not answer the following plea for help? "how do i get rid of smartbridge alerts , please it is driving me crackers." I assume that the error the writer is complaining about is very similar, if not identical, to this: "SMARTBRIDGE ALERTS: MOTIVE SB.EXE ENTRY POINT NOT FOUND THE...
I received this email today: "I use Vista. Each time I close an I.E. window I get a message that IE has stopped working and, eventually IE restarts when I want it closed, Can you help?" If I were a betting person I'd put my money on an add-on - most likely a toolbar. You have two options...
I received an email today that asked: "Does MS have a method to run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine?" There are a few hacks out there that purport to allow you to run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine, but they are just what I describe - hacks - all of which have problems. As my readers may know...
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sandi
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07-18-2007
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I received the following email from a reader: "I had an interesting email a few days ago from an IE7 user. He visited www.tigardchurch.org to find most of the text on the Home Page surrounded by “b’s”. I don’t own the site however; my wife is involved with keeping it current. I tested everything...
Today's email says: "I'm having trouble getting my home page (MSN.com) to open up when I hit my explorer start up button. I get a strange "run once" reference up in my address bar. I end up having to type in WWW.msn.com to get the home page to open. Then, at the bottom of my screen...