Webmaster Forum / Browsers / Internet Explorer / February 2004

Each time i restart windows I lost all the settings of my internet
explorer, like show big fonts, keep status bar etc.and I have to set
them again and again?
How is this possibile? How can I resolve.

I use IE 6 with Windows 2000 as my operating system.
I have cable connection and for some reason IE is playing up.
When I open IE it takes a long time before it will respond to any thing like
making it full screen using the scroll bar or typing anything into the

My desktop computer that's connected to a Netgear MR314 router seems to be
doing its own thing every now and then.  A couple times a day, the #1 port
light blinks on and off and I'd like to know what program is accessing the
net.  I have Norton Antivirus installed, so it may be that ...

Hello to everyone in this group,
I recently had a battle with some spyware (including msbb, bridge, and
others) that infested my pc.  I've pretty much cleaned that stuff out by
running ad-aware and spybot, and also going into my registry and deleting

Hey, recently when I try to visit web pages that require a username and
password by clicking on a link in the form
http://username:password@website.com, I get the "invalid syntax", "page
cannot be displayed" error messages.  The pages work if I login using the

Is it possible to display a selectable list which has in each option
image+texte st like :
<select name="tree">
<option value="Tree"><span><img

Over the last couple of days I've noticed a strange and potentially
debilitating problem with IE6 under Windows XP. Whenever I click on a
link that opens a new window, not only does the new window fail to
open, the current IE window closes (though any other open IE windows

Is there a way to "print" the current document object using JavaScript?
What
I am trying to get is the current html of the page, which would include
any changes to it since it was loaded in the browser (for example, if a

Apparently, while visitning some website, a rogue toolbar installed itself
in IE6. Curiously enough, if you go the the View menu and choose toolbars,
there is a blank space where this toolbar resides, so I have no idea what
it's called. If you uncheck it, it disappears of course, ...

just look at the number of postings without replies.
i bet this gets more replies than some of the ones with people with
real problems.

I have a new laptop with XP which has one annoying problem. When I launch
Internet Explorer, it launches to the home page and then within a few
seconds I get a new screen up with the adds. http://www.searchxl.com/dir.php
this seems to take over my machine, I can't remove it unless I ...

I don't know what I did, but my explorer has been highjacked.
Everytime I start IE, a website http://www.search-space.com/ comes up as my
homepage. Soon after, randmonly, it goes to a porn site. The latest one with
"minors" as models. It really bothers me.

Somehow a site named FizzleWizzle.com has hijacked my explorer window  and
created a new toolbar with its own icons for various searches. I have hidden
the offending toolbar but am unable to remove it. Please help.
PS Has anyone heard of these people?  TIA

I have IE6 Win98se and a page I go to regularly just will not open on my
computer yet it will on all my friends.
I have tried through my BB and Dial Up connections but no joy. I have even
tried turning off Firewall but still no luck. It is a genuine site and any

WinXP & IE6
No pop-up blockers in place, although I regularly run SpyBot and
"immunize" -
On may websites, after clicking on a link, I just get a plain page with