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Title: Somethin dun gone ****ed up IE6
Post by: diamondgeezer on April 24, 2004, 07:44:46 am

Something happened last night that made IE6 look like this (http://nodewar.penguinbomb.com/saab/images/Fuct.jpg). Normally the toolbars would be stacked with buttons on top, then address, then DAP and finally Google. They're currently locked where they are and clicking View --> Toolbars just gives me a load of greyed-out rubbish. Also, I'd banished most of those buttons, like Mail and Print and so forth yet they've mysteriously come back.

Ideas?

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Title: Somethin dun gone ****ed up IE6
Post by: Turnsky on April 24, 2004, 07:47:50 am

the only thing i can think of is...

save your bookmarks, and reinstall IE6. or find some way to restore IE to it's clean install status.

Title: Somethin dun gone ****ed up IE6
Post by: kasperl on April 24, 2004, 07:47:50 am

aside from the usual "Mozilla is good" and "why do you even use a DAP bar, Mozilla as it's own download manager" i can't give you much advice but just re-install the bugger.

Title: Somethin dun gone ****ed up IE6
Post by: vyper on April 24, 2004, 07:49:45 am

I suspect it's just some sort of default layout setting that's kicked in thanks to you ****ing with the registry or something. What have you been up to with it lately?

Btw - Firebird would solve all this :p

Title: Somethin dun gone ****ed up IE6
Post by: diamondgeezer on April 24, 2004, 07:52:36 am

God alone knows what I did. Last night Media Player installed a licence of somesort and a porn dialler downloaded itslef (AVG caught it), but that's all I can think of. I've tried reinstalling but nothing happened. I can't actually delete the thing, mind, as it wants a Messenger fiel which doesn't exist for some reason.

Title: Somethin dun gone ****ed up IE6
Post by: vyper on April 24, 2004, 07:58:00 am

You've got me. :confused:

Title: Somethin dun gone ****ed up IE6
Post by: StratComm on April 24, 2004, 11:26:33 am

It's probably not IE but rather your XP user settings that are FUBAR'd.  Try deleting the Internet Explorer directory from C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft and the same from C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Microsoft and see if that fixes it.  You'll lose all the rest of your preferences too, but you're looking at that anyway.

Title: Re: Somethin dun gone ****ed up IE6
Post by: karajorma on April 24, 2004, 11:45:53 am

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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
They're currently locked where they are  

Have you tried unlocking them? Right mouse on an empty section of the toolbar and chose the unlock option. Move the toolbars around and then lock it again.

Assuming you're running windows XP. Not certain if that works for other OS's

Title: Somethin dun gone ****ed up IE6
Post by: Drew on April 24, 2004, 11:38:05 pm

spyware ****ed up IE. I still have no idea how to fix this...

Title: Somethin dun gone ****ed up IE6
Post by: Bobboau on April 24, 2004, 11:40:59 pm

reformat/reinstall

Title: Somethin dun gone ****ed up IE6
Post by: diamondgeezer on April 25, 2004, 06:27:03 am

:nod:

Title: Somethin dun gone ****ed up IE6
Post by: WMCoolmon on April 25, 2004, 04:25:11 pm

Firebird loves you.