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Phil,

Good point! I should have mentioned in my other post that I’ve tried this. It lasts for a week or so and then… poof! Back to the same old same old. The lastest MS security patch actually worked on my IE 6 for a couple of weeks before reverting back.

Funny thing is… I have no problems with IE 5.5 or 6 on my laptop or on my other desktop – both of which were purchased prior to January 2002. Both have Win98SE. both have Netscape. Both have the same software as on my newer desktop where no form of IE works. The major difference is that my older desktop and my laptop started with IE 5 whereas my new desktop started with IE 5.5.

Is there a connection? Hmm. I don’t know. But I still can’t help but think there is some kind of bug [perhaps begun with IE 5.5] that is being perpetuated. I wonder if there is a registry entry that keeps reverting back to a MS-determined setting?

I’m convinced there has to be a bug in IE 5.5 and IE 6. There have been posts on this subject from a variety of people over the past year. Sometimes the discussion turns to solving the problem manually by making sure “Encoding” is not set to “European.”

I’ve also experienced the problem {i have Win98 SE and have had it happen in IE 5.5 and 6, even with all the security/bug fixes}. It never occurs in Netscape and has reached the point that I completely ignore using IE at all times.

Phil has been a great help to me, and other Loungers for quite some time, and if he can’t figure it out and make it work, “it is a bad day in Mudville!”

Ah, yes, Grasshopper! Playing with the font attributes under the Icon setting in Control Panel/Display has accomplished most of what this most unworthy acolyte needed. Many thanks, Phil, for showing me the way to enlightenment!!!

Hmm. Thanks, Phil. I’ve been there and couldn’t find a place to adjust the font. There must be somewhere to do that…

Go into CMOS and check to see if PME Event Wake Up status is disabled. I recently installed a new motherboard and when it changed the PME Event wake up from enabled to disabled, my automatic log in began to work. This is with Win98SE. I’d be curious if this works for you or not.

Nope – still won’t work. Have you made any changes to your CMOS settngs lately?

I’ve been experiencing the same problem over the last few months and have been following every post on this topic. So far, nothing that has been suggested solves the problem for my system. As with the solution posted here, everything on my system is OK.

I’m running Win98 SE with IE 6 with all the latest security patches. I began to see the problem after installing 6.0 on top of 5.5 and then adding the security patches. If I uninstall 6.0, then graphics are displayed for a session or two and then I am back to the same problem.

Occassionally I get an error message that points to being unable to read scripts. But this is intermittant. It occurs on a web site one day and then not the next. If I look under Encloding, it is always on Western European ISO. If I manually change to WEstern European Windows, then the graphics are OK. But I have to do this with every single page. It is easier and less frustrating to use Netscape.

Yes, adding Netbeui solved the problem. I finally figured that out and was rebooting when your message came through asking if I had done this. Running around the room and comparing all 3 computers finally made me realize that my newest machine [which came with win98 installed] hadn’t been installed with Netbeui. So all is now well in networkland. Thanks to all of you who made suggestions.

All machines have Win98SE networked through a Linksys ethernet/cable DSL router. File and print sharing are all turned on. Maching A can communicate with B, and B can communicate with C, but A and C can’t communiate [sounds like a math problem]. Do I have to turn on sharing between A and C? If so, how is this different than turning on “regular” print and file sharing?

Win98 SE

Ah! That did the trick. Looks like I was in Communicator and not Messenger. Thanks, Phil.

Hmmm. I have Net 4.76 [says so in my help file] but there is no such possible menu under view as “view attachments inline.” I’d love to do as PaJan has been able to do.

Well, I went to uninstall IE6 and chose the repair function first. And now it works properly. So far!

I’m running IE6 with Norton Systemworks 2002 and have the same problem with no graphics being displayed. I’ve turned off script blocking in antivirus and still no graphics.

When I go to view-encoding-autoselect, it always selected Western European ISO. I can manually select Western European [windows] for every site to have the graphics download. But that’s tedious.

Those of you who had this problem and had it fixed… any other ideas as to what might be going on?

Mark,

Good question. Why upgrade? My problem with Win98 FE is twofold. First, the system keeps hanging up at shutdown. Second, I wrote in an earlier post about problems experienced with Wmexe freezing. Someone kindly reported that this was related to memory manager affairs and refered me to Win98 SE fixes. So, those are the reasons for wanting to upgrade to SE.

For those others of you reading this an wondering why I don’t upgrade to Windows X[xtra]P[rofit]; it’s because I have too much money invested in software and books to have to toss 50% of it out because they are incompatible with XP. Besides, I know how to use win98 and I’m quite comfortable with it.

As to installing my SE on top of FE, when I tried to do that I got an error message saying that I already have a version of win98 on the machine and the disk I was using was therefore incompatible. so, I thought it there was some way to download fixes and patches to my SE to make it into a SE, then I would be able to download the System Hang Fix for win98 SE from the mothership site.

I’m already using IE6.x, find it it OK, but I thought ver 5 and ver 4 were OK too. MS is adding more features than I have any interest in using or learning how to use. Bells and whistles are fine but, hey! How much time past 24 hours in a day can you spend on the computer or using the net?

So, the final comment is: my main reason in wanted to get SE on my machine is so taht I can download the SE system hang fix.