The first thing I would try is to install the latest Firefox and try
using that. This will eliminate some variables---and may also get you
hooked on Firefox...;)
(Tongue in cheek): Many would hail the killing of IE as a
feature---there have been lengthy forum discussions on just how to do
that---and someone actually wrote a utility for the purpose. I'll
settle for killing the permissions on the folder where IE lives....
paul sutton wrote:
Hi, probably not much help
I have done the same with Windows XP and SP2, and have had no problem
with any version of openoffice, so I guess AFAIK there are no services
that need shutting down, certainly on this computer here,
Using
AMD Duron 1600
40gb hdd
700 mb memory
Windows XP + SP2 + various updates from windows update
Mozilla (latest build) firefox, thunderbird
Openoffice.org beta2
Paul
Travis Pittman 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!
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