George, you said:
> By the way, I still use IE 5.5. I've heard that 6.0 is troublesome,
> and I rarely use it anyhow.
Ran across a 'fix' on this forum a little while back. It has worked
wonderfully for me (I too had problems with IE6, couldn't stand it and
thought M$ could have done a better job with it).
What I did was place IE 5.5 files:
BROWSELC.DLL
BROWSEUI.DLL
into the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory
Then place IE6 files:
BROWSELC.DLL
BROWSEUI.DLL
into \Program Files\Internet Explorer directory
Voila! No more Explorer stalls, no more IE hangs, etc
Oh BTW, I thought your post describing QuickTime was funny. I thought of
it as sort of a virus too until I setup its preferences the way I wanted
AND got rid of their Windows startup entries! Now it works fine.
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<georget@unlisted.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:22:26 GMT, "* * Chas"
> <verktygjunk@aol.spamski.com (remove spamski to e-mail me)> wrote:
>
>>I have a very stable fully updated Win98 system that I've been running
>>since 1999. Several years ago I had to update IE from 5.5 to 6 to
>>access
>>some online services that I use.
>>
>>IE 5.5 worked perfect for years. IE6 had a bunch of annoying little
>>glitches such as printing problems so I installed Firefox and it's
>>worked
>>great for several years.
>>
>>After one of the frequent Firefox updates I now get a QuickTime broken
>>link icon for most videos in Firefox: YouTube for example plus the
>>startup
>>and instructional videos in many web sites. I'm running Firefox
>>3.0.0.11.
>>
>
> You mean 2.0.0.11. Thats the latest. There is no version 3.xxxxx
> yet.
>
>>I've reinstalled QuickTime and all of the Adobe Flash & Shockwave
>>updates
>>still no joy.
>>
>>QuickTime and Flash videos work fine in IE6.
>>
>>Chas.
>>
>
> Youtube videos are in .FLV format, but use Flash Player when running
> in any browser. I have IE, Firefox, and Opera installed. youtube
> videos play fine in all of them as long as I remember to disable my
> flash blocker (which is normally enabled because of all the flash
> advertising on sites these days).
>
> I hate to tell you this, but I will not allow QuickTime anywhere near
> my computer. I had it installed several years ago, and it did nothing
> but cause me problems. It's been quite awhile since I removed it, but
> if I recall, it caused me problems with flash content. I suggest
> removing it completely. For the record, using the uninstaller in
> ADD/REMOVE programs does not remove all of it. You have to manually
> remove the folder, then remove several DLL and EXE files in
> Windows/System. If you dont, everytime you click on a .MOV file
> online, Quicktime tries to reinstall itself. This may be a bit of an
> exaggeration, but I view Quicktime as a virus of sorts. After you
> remove the files, clean your registry to remove all the Quicktime
> garbage left behind.
>
> I lost nothing by removing it, except the ability to play a few .MOV
> files I had saved on my drive. I keep them because I know someday
> I'll find some freeware converter to convert them to another format.
> Otherwise, removing Quicktime was one of the best things I ever did
> for this computer.
>
> I highly recommend removing Quicktime.
> You might also want to totally remove Firefox and start over with it.
> But make note, the program files/firefox folder is not the only place
> it's stored. All your settings are in a folder, which on my computer
> is called
> C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles (with several sub
> folders after that.)
> You have to remove all of that too, but you'll lose all your settings,
> and addons, and your bookmarks are somewhere in there too
> (you can backup your bookmarks...... someone else on here can explain
> how, I rarely use bookmarks, and when I do, I open the page in IE and
> save the bookmarks as IE bookmarks. Otherwise I got 3 bookmark files
> and that can become chaos).
>
> By the way, I still use IE 5.5. I've heard that 6.0 is troublesome,
> and I rarely use it anyhow. I like both Firefox and Opera. Firefox
> has the ability to save youtube videos if you download the addon
> called downloadhelper. Opera has other features I like. IE sucks in
> most cases, but there are times certain web pages work best in IE. If
> a page dont work right in one broswer, I try another.
>
> George
>
>