On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 02:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Travis Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This has to be the strangest result I have had in 15 years of using > the Internet. > > I really wanted to install OO, and noticed for several consecutive > hours that the web site seemed down. Finally, I decided this didn't > seem right, so I checked openoffice.org from a different machine. The > openoffice.org web site opened right away. > > I went back to the original machine - with the same result. That > particular machine will not load up openoffice.org, nor will it load > any sub pages of that particular domain. I want to stress that it > will open up any other web page on Earth except this one! > > But it got stranger... I went ahead and downloaded JRE 1.5 and > OpenOffice beta 2 on the "good" machine and burned them to CD. I > transfered the CD to the machine in question, and installed both > programs. > > And now Internet Explorer won't load ANY page from the Web. I > confirmed that the problem is isolated to this particular machine by > taking its physical connection over to the machine from which I am > writing to you now. > > I would really like to keep OO, but I can't if it kills Internet > Explorer functionality. Can anyone help? > > Here are the ONLY things I can think of as possible factors: > (1) I recently re-installed Windows XP Home SP2 (and updated it) on > the machine, and I chose not to put any Microsoft software back onto > it except for that which is packaged within the XP install CD.(2) I > have turned off many start-up services, but have explicitly kept > turned on any having to do with the Internet. With this modification, > I could still load any Web page -- except for openoffice.org .(3) Is > there any service which must be turned on as a start-up service in > Windows XP for OO to work? > > Thank you very much! I can't fathom why this is happening. I > appreciate any help! > As an Open Source type you would want Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. http://www.mozilla.org/ I suspect your IE caught a nasty while surfing. Try offline opening any HTML document that is saved on that machine. HTH -- Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
