Weird Problem...

[N9ne]

I have IE6, and I have set all the security settings to default, turned off my popup killer, and all popup windows STILL close themselves! However there is a weirder worser problem...take www.hostmatix.com for example [my host], clicking on live help brings up a popup window, now once it loads up, it closes the popup window, AND the hostmatix.com site! I have NO idea WHY this is happening, I've tried what I can! What can be doing this? It's severly annoying :(

[filburt1]

Make sure your IE settings aren't set to go through a proxy (how most popup filters work).

Normally one wouldn't complain about having popups close themselves...;)

[N9ne]

It isn't going through a proxy or anything.

Also, it isn't just closing popup windows! It's closing all windows that popup, ie. I click on a link to get to the live help chat window on my host's site, and it closes not only the popup, but the site aswell!!!

[Syxx-Pac]

:confused: :confused: i dont get it?

[CeleronXT]

Do you have SP1 installed?

[filburt1]

I did have a similar problem at one point: popup windows never opened (or links to open new windows), the status bar was all screwed up, other general weirdness. Because the browser is part of the os :rolleyes: I had to reformat.

[N9ne]

I had SP1 installed but it had bugs with IE so I uninstalled it...

[N9ne]

Would re-installing IE6 work?

[N9ne]

It wouldn't let me re-install IE6. It said I have a later version installed, me thinks it means IE 6 SP1 but I uninstalled WinXP SP1, which contained IE6SP1, however I cannot remove IE6SP1, because I don't know where or how..

[CeleronXT]

What about uninstalling IE first?

[N9ne]

Isn't that risky? [I heard somewhere that it is :confused:]

[CeleronXT]

Dunno, neva had to do it before.... Maybe risky if you don't reinstall?

[N9ne]

I dunno, but I just noticed, I can't remove IE from Control Panel, it isn't listed, so where can I?

[N9ne]

OK I managed to get rid of IE, and when I try to install IE6 again, it STILL says I have a newer version installed, HOW CAN I UNINSTALL IE?! :( :( This is really starting to bug me :(

[Cary]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q293907&

[N9ne]

I am on windows XP and want to completely remove Internet Explorer 6, however this doesn't seem possible on WinXP...I'm at the point of throwing things :mad:

All I can do is remove IE from the components list, that really does a lot for me, it removes IE, I go to install IE6 again, and it says "newer version present" or something, and it says setup cannot continue...surely there's a WinXP whiz here that can help me out? I know next to nothing about computers :(

[N9ne]

Anyone? Or maybe there's a fix to the problem of certain popup windows closing themselves?

[N9ne]

I guess there is no hope? :o

[CeleronXT]

Apparently not. I really have no idea how to fix it without reformatting, but I don't think you really want to be that drastic.

[JamesUS]

There is no way to completely remove Internet Explorer from Windows XP.

[Wayne Luke]

Ummm... Since you are on Windows XP, did you happen to perform a system rollback to before the problem started happening?

[N9ne]

I installed SP1 but it had problems, so I uninstalled it [I archived the files], then the problems started happening...

[Wayne Luke]

So do a system restore to right before you installed Service Pack 1.

[N9ne]

Thanks Wayne Luke, it worked :), unfortunately I had to go as far back as 7th October [last system point] but all's back to normal and I'm happy once again, thanks for all the help guys and girls!