re: IE6 toolbar trouble
Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 7:31 am
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Posted by DEX
(11846 messages posted)
John
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On Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 2:20 am, John wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I found quite a bunch of viruses and trojans on my system recently and managed to
>clear them from the pc using AVG 7, Spybot and Adaware, but I'm still having problems
>with IE6.
>
>Every time I open IE from a shortcut on the desktop or the programs folder, it opens
>up with no file menu or toolbar buttons (forward, back, etc.). It just shows a blank
>grey bar above the address box and Google toolbar. I tried uninstalling Google toolbar
>but that made no difference. Also the toolbar seems to be completely locked - there
>is no lock/unlock option in the View/Toolbars any more.
>
>But when I open up a page in Firefox, right-click and select "view this page in
IE",
>IE opens up OK with all my usual buttons and file menu, except it still doesn't
have
>the toolbar lock/unlock, and I can't drag anything on it.I used to have my links
>as buttons on the file menu bar at the top, but now they're locked in a drop-down
>menu at the side and can't be moved. Apart from that, IE seems to browse fine and
>doesn't crash.
>
>Any tips on how to fix this? After finding the viruses and trojans and deleting
them,
>I cleared my browser cache, including offline material, history and temp files,
and
>did further scans after updating all security progs, but this IE thing is still
bugging
>me. Irritatingly, I can't simply do a re-instal as, when I download IE6 and double-click
>on the exe for installation, it just opens up the browser already installed! I've
>also done an IE repair and restart from a Run command line, as it doesn't show up
>on the add/remove programs display, but that didn't do anything.
>
>I'd like to be able to fix this without having to remove service packs (I've got
>SP4 installed) or reinstalling Windows itself. I don't seem to be able to uninstal
>IE6 at all. Is there some way to instal IE5.5 over it (I was happier with that one),
>or does Microsoft have me over a barrel?
>
>Any help much appreciated, thanks.
>
>John.
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