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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 3:25 am    Post subject: This one has me stumped...
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Hi all....

I'm helping a neighbor with his Pentium II Dell system. He has Windows 98 first edition (the one with the satellite dish in the toolbar) and IE6 that has been AOLized. The problem he's having is any browser window that he might bring up after the first one comes up showing the top bar along with the three buttons and that's it. Nothing else. Normally when you size or resize a window (or at least a IE window,) Windows will keep it's size in its "memory" so the next time you bring up the window in a future session, it will retain the size.

Not so in his case, after I increase the size from the bar and get it to full screen, it will "remember" the size for that session only. If Internet Explorer is shut down, the memory is lost and next time it's brought up, it's the bar only again.

Beyond the normal settings, I don't know where else to look in this case. Does anyone have an idea of how to fix this?

Thanks Smile

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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 4:31 am    Post subject:
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Almost sounds like it may be the result of a Window utility that "rolls up" a new window into the titlebar. See for example:

http://www.download3k.com/System-Utilities/Launchers-Task-Manager-Utilities/Download-Actual-Window-Rollup.html
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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 5:06 am    Post subject:
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k027 wrote:
Almost sounds like it may be the result of a Window utility that "rolls up" a new window into the titlebar. See for example:

http://www.download3k.com/System-Utilities/Launchers-Task-Manager-Utilities/Download-Actual-Window-Rollup.html


Hi...

Same concept but no, this is the work of IE or Windows.

Thanks! Smile

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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 5:58 am    Post subject:
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Perhaps these might help:

http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/archive/answers.htm#new_window_max

http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/archive/answers2.htm#window_small

The second reference mentions the possibility of corrupt registry entries and suggests deleting same. Perhaps a simialar corrupt registry entry is causing your problem.
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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 8:48 am    Post subject:
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Hi...

Thank you very much Smile

I'll give these a shot next time at looking at his system...should be tommorrow.

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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 11:56 pm    Post subject:
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Hi...

Ok, I gave the second link a shot and followed the directions in removing the registry entries....unfortunately, it's a no go. Sad

Could this be AOL induced or is something else going on here? This only started happening about a week ago.

Thanks again! Smile

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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2007 1:23 am    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:20 am    Post subject:
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If you think AOL is the culprit, would it be worthwhile trying to uninstall the AOL ie6 and reinstalling the plain MS version?

I think there is a site, something like old versions.com where you can get various older versions of things including explorer.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:33 am    Post subject:
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If you think AOL is the culprit, would it be worthwhile trying to uninstall the AOL ie6 and reinstalling the plain MS version?

I think there is a site, something like old versions.com where you can get various older versions of things including explorer.


Hi...

Honestly, I don't know if AOL is the culprit or not nor did I think of reinstalling IE6. I could give it a try although he's talking about upgrading to W2k.

Thanks Smile

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:09 pm    Post subject:
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cghost wrote:
If you think AOL is the culprit, would it be worthwhile trying to uninstall the AOL ie6 and reinstalling the plain MS version?

I think there is a site, something like old versions.com where you can get various older versions of things including explorer.


Hi...

Well, I attempted both a repair and an uninstallation and reinstallation of IE6 but am still unsuccessful at getting this to work properly. Sad

It might be that no one has an accurate "picture" of what I'm talking about so I've uploaded a screenshot. Hopefully, someone might know what to do.

Thanks!

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