I have Google as a home page. When I open IE for the first
time I get two "Google" windows trying to open. Why is
this and how do I correct it.
Thanks

I recently had to reinstall windows xp secondary to hard drive failure.  I
am unise IE6 sp2.  I am no longer able to open pdf files in the browser.  I
am using adobe reader 7.0.  In fact on some sites, they won't open at all
even when I use "open target as...".

On the following page:
http://www.lawrencegoodhue.com/contact.htm
There are 3 colons and 1 @ symbol that appear fine in FrontPage 2003 Service
Pack 3, but appear as thin rectangles on the web site in Internet Explorer

Hey there,
I used to be able to navigate my IE Favorites menu by clicking Alt A (to
open the menu) and then typing the first letter of the folder or URL I wanted
to navigate to. If it were a folder I was interested in, the menu would

almost every time i start ie6,it either doesn't start or goes to my homepage
and freezes.windows then locks up and i cannot do anything.to get the pc
running again i use a game disc (eg. aoe2 ) and the act of autoplaying the cd
unsticks the hang.i've disabled and enabled addons ...

This is probably pretty easy but:
I recently had to reload my entire system (with the help from DELL).
I have Windows XP
I have been cleaning-up files and folders and one that has caused this

Using IE 6:
On this page, when I click on login,  I can see the password box quickly
display and then disappear, and then an 401 Authorization Required page
appears.

I feel really dumb but I need help.  I need to disable my content advisor.  
Problem is, when I set the password along with my helpful hint, I didn't
write anything down and I don't have a clue how to disable it now.  It was so
meaningful at the time!!  Any one have a solution ...

I am running Internet Explorer 6.0, SP 2.  The browser freezes up & will not
load a new window's web address unless I irst choose STOP (on the browser) &
then hit ENTER on the keyboard.  Any ideas?  This started about two weeks
back, even though I have a secure firewall.

Not sure what I did but all leading numbers are showing as questi0n mark"?".
Can anyone help?

I have IE6 and when I use "Search", after entering my search criteria
and hitting Search, it comes back with an error - "the search box was
empty".  I then re-enter the search criteria and it works fine the
second time.  This started a couple of days ago.  What could be the

Some websites display the red x instead of pictures only on IE but not on my
Yahoo browser.  Also, my email in Outlook is distorted, where I can't see any
of the content of the email.  All of this happened about a week ago.  I have
run my EZTrust Antivirus, Webroot Spyware, and ...

Last night I started getting pages that load very slow - about 3 minutes
compared to about 10 seconds normally.  It is happening on eBay with the
secure login page that connects to https secure server.  While the page is
slowly loading a message displays at the bottom of the window  ...

i tried the links you gave me frank nothing would work.when i downloaded
winsockfix  tacktech.com i tried to backup before running but it wouldnt
backup
certain things and asked to skip that file i didnt dare just incase i did

Can anyone tell me what is difference between the transfer rate of a
HTTP download using internet explorer vs FTP download ? Also why is it
that when I run a speed test from some sites I get 1.8Mb/s but when I
download something I get 345KB/s ? Is that my browser is running slower