I mentioned in another thread that I was getting page load errors on Ebay. I have changed nothing in my PC or IE settings that I know of. Problem started Friday and has contiued through Saturday and today.

Before that I had no issues.

I've updated Jave, IE (v7x), Flash, Adobe, etc. I've dumped cache and rebooted. I've scanned for viruses. Nothing. Same problem.

This is the message I get when I link to DOZENS of Ebay pages (only the page address changes):





Every thing from message "reply" to "placed bids" to My Account links.

What the heck is wrong?

Is it me or is it Ebay? Can you connect to this link: http://announcements.ebay.com/ ?? I can't. For the past 3 days.

 

BTW - Firefox works fine. Just thought to try that.

 

I have no problem connecting to the link you provided with IE. Maybe something wrong with your IE. Have you tried reinstalling IE?

 

Works for me in Opera and IE. Do you have a software firewall flaking out?

 

I have not. Not sure if I can since IE8 is the version MS is pushing now.


I don't think so. I haven't set/changed any firewall settings that I know of; and it's not a corporate thing, it's a home setup.


So you two and my ability to use Firefox at least naroow it down to IE. Something must've changed, but I don't know what.

 

I am using IE8 if that makes a difference. Something changed somewhere and it will probably "fix" itself and you will never no what it was. That crap happened to me once. And to this day I haven't figured what the prob was.

 

I'm pretty sure your can't reinstall IE in XP, it can't even be uninstalled.

Why can't you install IE8? It has a compatibility mode for any old websites that don't work with it, it will render the page with IE6 engine.

Is it a security setting in Internet Options?

 

Link works with FF and IE8 for me too.

Maybe you have some messed up ActiveX plugins or something similar. Whenever I had issues with a slow browser or sites loading, I'd run Norton Utilities and it'd usually find some Windows errors. Once I had them fixed, problem solved.

Maybe download the free trial http://us.norton.com/downloads/trial...sp?pvid=nu2010 and see if it finds any errors?

 

Try running "Internet Explorer (no add-ons)"

 

IE7 is a corporate standard. What I meant before was I'm not on a corporate network.

Could be a security setting, but I haven't changed anything in the IE options. I'll try the no add-ons and see if that helps.

 

Nope same problem.

I also used the "reset" feature which clears all cache/history, resets default/customization and restores factory settings. No dice, same problem.

 

¯\(°_o)/¯

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927917/en-us

It's an IE7 problem, their solution is to upgrade to IE8. Are you not allowed to update it? I thought the compatibility mode in IE8 would fix any issues that a user might have when visiting a site designed for IE6 or IE7. I'm curious to know what your job hasn't jumped to IE8.

 

We just got rid of our 1980's era ERP/MRP systems 2 years ago.

 

This kind of explains the problem though. Ebay does updates/maint, iirc, late night Friday/Sat morning. My problems started about that time.


I'll just use FF. I don't have a lot of Ebay activity.


Thanks for the help and for tracking down the MS support doc.

 

maybe notify ebay of the issue and they'll fix it. IE 7 does have the lowest browser share of all past 3 IE versions, mostly cause everyone that's not stuck using IE6 for compatibility reasons has already upgraded to IE8. Which is is why it's odd that your IT dept hasn't.

 

Arg...

 

Its ebay, call paypal?

 

You can uninstall IE in xp by either clicking the show updates box under add/remove programs or click the add/remove windows componants tab under add/rmove programs. Then just reinstall it. I had to unistall it on this machine a couple years back due to it flaking out.

 

That doesn't uninstall it, it just removes the icons, it's still there, it's a vital part of the OS. Hence the whole reason MS got sued for anti-competitive monopolistic behavior back in the day.

It wasn't until Windows 7 that you can finally uninstall IE.

Actually you can uninstall IE 7 and 8 in XP. I've actually done it. I forgot. One of our clients is very old fashioned, he even still uses the old Windows 98 start menu and doesn't use the default one in XP. Anyways one of the business intranet sites they accessed was old school and they wanted us to uninstall IE8 and then install IE7. Once I uninstalled IE8 it reverted back to IE6 and then I had to upgrade it to IE7.

I remember I told my boss to try compatibility mode for IE8 first but he didn't want to bother with that. Hey we got a few hours of labor out of it, sooo......

But IE was never completely removed it just reverts back to IE6

 

Thats it If you have IE7 you can uninstall it and like you said it reverts back to IE6 then you can reinstall IE7 or 8.