This post deals with IE 6.0, but I did not see any IE 6.0 managed newsgroups.  
Summary:
a) Microsoft's update 912812 appears to break ActiveX controls on Windows 98
in Internet Explorer 6.  Is this a known problem?  If so, is there a work

IE on my system often hangs when I attempt to open a file that I saved to my
hard drive. It seems that it always happens if I save a page that contains a
shockwave file, although I'm not sure if shockwave is the fundamental cause.
The page opens fine if I navigate from the ...

In general, my XP machcine with 128 bit cipher is having problems
logging into some web sites. The log in page will come up but the page
after the login page would not come up.
A lot of the other web sites are fine.

I have a question about my ie6 browser.  I cannot change my homepage.
I have tried to set it to foxnews.com  from within the browser and
also in the registry keys. It always sets back to it's default which
is msn.com. I have always been able to do this in previous versions.

my browser (iexplorer 6.0) lost support for java all of a sudden.
it happened after i downloaded newer version of java runtime. is java
deactivated? how do i reactivate it ?

We have recently got Microsoft Office XP on our computer, but before we
were using Microsoft works. I use Word as my main word processor but
when I download attachments (ie in hotmail) it opens ion Works rather
than in Word.

Win98, IE6.0SP1 with all latest updates.  When I go to Office Update and
check for updates, there's apparently supposed to be an Info Bar that allows
me to choose whether or not to install ActiveX components.  I don't get a
bar, what should I do?

I am having trouble with IE6 on my windows 2000 workstation. When I try to
load an web page (http) IE just shows a white screen unless I press escape.
However, ftp sites and directories seem to work fine. Does anyone have any
ideas on what this can be and how to get around it?