Hi all - I've got a huge problem, and I know this should probably be posted in the software forum, or tech support...so I'll probably post them there too, which I know it a big no-no, but I'm really desperate.
I am going back up to school tommorow, and just finished building a system for a lady my mom works with today (Athlon XP, Gigabyte 7VTXH, GF 2 MX, etc). Build went great, everything's going great...doing the Windows updates for XP Corp., those go fine (except for taking an hour to d/l on 56k). So I leave to eat, come back to finish installing some misc. apps and find their 14 year old son trying to download Macromedia Shockwave player, which for some reason isn't working, giving an error to the extent of "Your internet security settings are too high. The page may not load correctly." I don't know, something to that extent...and it said something about Active X controllers. So I go to lower the security settings (which I shouldn't have had to do) and it still doesn't work. I try and try and finally lower them all the way, enabling every last d@mn thing through the custom settings, yet I still get the error. I uninstall Norton Sys. Works 2k2 thinking it might be the problem, but no go. I tried installing IE6 over the version that comes with XP, but it didn't even install, so that didn't work. Oh, the other thing is that then I went to Windows Updates and now that site wasn't working, for the same reason...to high of security settings. It's like when I change the security settings the changes aren't taking effect, even though I'm hitting 'apply' and 'ok' after each change.
So, anyway, I'm assuming this is some type of bug...I have no idea what caused it, if the kid did something...hell, I don't know. I'm just wondering if anyone's had this problem and if they have a fix, or if not if someone can tell me how to remove IE 6 from XP so I can reinstall it (which will hopefully take care of the problem). Any other suggestions are more than welcome... this kid's gonna wanna download this type of crap and is gonna throw a fit if it won't let him, and it's really going to be a thorn in my side if I can't get it going...so, yeah, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help...rewards are available...
Thx..
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AnandTech Moderator
I am going back up to school tommorow, and just finished building a system for a lady my mom works with today (Athlon XP, Gigabyte 7VTXH, GF 2 MX, etc). Build went great, everything's going great...doing the Windows updates for XP Corp., those go fine (except for taking an hour to d/l on 56k). So I leave to eat, come back to finish installing some misc. apps and find their 14 year old son trying to download Macromedia Shockwave player, which for some reason isn't working, giving an error to the extent of "Your internet security settings are too high. The page may not load correctly." I don't know, something to that extent...and it said something about Active X controllers. So I go to lower the security settings (which I shouldn't have had to do) and it still doesn't work. I try and try and finally lower them all the way, enabling every last d@mn thing through the custom settings, yet I still get the error. I uninstall Norton Sys. Works 2k2 thinking it might be the problem, but no go. I tried installing IE6 over the version that comes with XP, but it didn't even install, so that didn't work. Oh, the other thing is that then I went to Windows Updates and now that site wasn't working, for the same reason...to high of security settings. It's like when I change the security settings the changes aren't taking effect, even though I'm hitting 'apply' and 'ok' after each change.
So, anyway, I'm assuming this is some type of bug...I have no idea what caused it, if the kid did something...hell, I don't know. I'm just wondering if anyone's had this problem and if they have a fix, or if not if someone can tell me how to remove IE 6 from XP so I can reinstall it (which will hopefully take care of the problem). Any other suggestions are more than welcome... this kid's gonna wanna download this type of crap and is gonna throw a fit if it won't let him, and it's really going to be a thorn in my side if I can't get it going...so, yeah, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help...rewards are available...
Thx..
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Wrong forum.
AnandTech Moderator
