What happened?

[mejohnjr]

After installing XP1 on my system I found that whenever I click on a picture, while online, my browser will close.

[bailey]

what is xp1.

do you mean sp1 ?

[mejohnjr]

Yeah thats what I meant, SP1

[bailey]

does it actually close, or does it just minize ?

I never had that problem yet, when I place the curser over a picture, I get a icon to save it

[mejohnjr]

It doesn't happen on all graphics, just photos. I left click and it shuts IE6 down.

"when I place the curser over a picture, I get a icon to save it"


I also get that option when I place the curser over the picture. That is not a problem.

[bailey]

I guess I'm not understanding the problem,
where is the photo that is doing this to you.
you may have to right click to download it if that is what you want to do
some web sites will let you enlarge the picture, when you left click on it.

[mejohnjr]

I guess it is not photos that is doing it but files like .swf .mpeg, and other video files. When I click on them they make the browser shut down.

[bailey]

I don't know why it would shut down, but I do think that your doing something that your not supposed to do.
something that ie6 don't like, could be something like a protection thing, or even a setting that requires other softwhare, or something, if you are useing directx ver, 8 or better and what ever software like mm8x from microsoft might be required,
something seams to be missing for what you are trying to do.

at least that is what I think might be happening.

something to look into anyway.

[mejohnjr]

Everything was fine until I installed SP1. Now some things have changed. For example; when I try to open "My Pictures" in windows explorer, instead of showing me the files in the folder, it opens a search page. I'm not doing anything different than I did before.

[bailey]

in that case you did something wrong when you installed sp1,
I have no idea what or how you did it, but if you followed the directions correctly and you have a leagle copy of xp, there should be no problem as you discribed.
I have done it too many times with no problem at all.


second thought, sp1 has ie6 in it, did you per chance install ie6 as a seperate install, some have done that by mistake and messed things up a bit.

[mejohnjr]

When I went to windows update there were two updates, one for IE6 and the other SP1.
I installed the IE6 first, rebooted and then did the SP1.
After that I found out that the IE6 was included in the SP1 and I really didn't have to install that one. There is an option to uninstall SP1 in Add/Remove, but not for the IE6 service pack.

[bailey]

ok that is your problem, others have made the same mistake, still looking for a way out,

you only want to do sp1, only, nothing else.

[bailey]

one fix that worked, do a system restore to a date before you did the update, then remove the ie6 download, then redo the sp1,
it should fix the problem

[Tuf]

I haven't seen any serious problems wih SP1. But since it makes over three hundred changes to your system some configurations will likely have some serious issues. I would say that it likely is an issue with setting program access defaults. I would start by setting it to all Microsoft and make changes from there.

[bailey]

you cannot and must not download and install both sp1 and ie6,
it will mess up your system very badly, only do sp1, as ie6 is already built into it.

sp1 is for xp os's

ie6 is for other os's

[mejohnjr]

When people have been having trouble is when they d/l and install both at the same time because they are both exclusive.
MS should warn XP users before hand that the IE6 SP is included in the XPSP1 so they won't load it.

[mejohnjr]

I went back and removed IE6sp and reinstalled XPSP1. I'll give it a couple of days to set in and see if things improved.

Thanks Bailey,

[bailey]

it should work fine now with no problems at all, mine does.

[eldon]

I installed the IE6sp first and then the sp1,and I have found no problems,if you install ie6sp first then when you go back to update sp1 it just leaves whatever you dont need out.

[mejohnjr]

eldon, that is exactly what I did. Everything seemed fine but there were little things that didn't quite work right. Perhaps you will find some of these irregularities on your system, if not, good for you!!!

[eldon]

Hope not,if so I will go to update and uninstall ie6sp,is this what you recommend in case of trouble?P.S. Thanks I will be on the lookout for problems.

[mejohnjr]

Something went haywire with my Macromedia flash player. I uninstalled it and cleared up the problem.

[mejohnjr]

Seems there is a conflict between Macromedia Flash Player and javascript. If I have the flash player installed, the javascript won't work...if I remove it, javascript works just fine.

[ZANEY123]

I had sp1 installed and it starting making ie6 act up ,not opening links for example: when I would open up a new forum here it would not work unless i restarted my computer.

I did just install sp1 and i never installed just the ie6 sp so that would not be my promblem,,,

I unistalled and it works fine again, I am trying to figure out how just install the updates i need,,,

[mejohnjr]

Looks like it is a problem with Macromedia's Flash Player!!!
I just read an interesting post from, http://webforums.macromedia.com/flas...hreadid=448372

Sounds like Macromedia needs to come up with a fix...

[Tuf]

XP comes with IE6. So really don't have an option there. I have upgraded approximately two dozen computers to SP1 with no problems other than having to reset up some network connections. Looks like the Flash player may be at fault.