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From: "David Hurst"
Subject: [PCSOFT] Sending page or link from IE 6.0
> I had raised this question a month or so ago with this august body, but have yet to get fix to the
problem. I am sure you aren't stumped.....!! *G*
>
> When in IE 6.0, and wanting to send the page or link to an email address, I click on FILE.. SEND..
but when I click on either the selection to send the page or the link, nothing happens...
nothing..!!!!! I have uninstalled and reinstalled IE several times to no avail. This used to
work I am sure, and I know of nothing I have do to change the setting. I am running XP home on a
850 mhx HP machine.
>
> Could I have a setting someplace that could cause this..?? or what ?
>
> Appreciate any advice you might offer, on or off list.
>
> Thanks
>
> David Hurst
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David,
Although my problems with IE6 and OE6 were very different from yours, I was going to reply to your
message a month ago but decided to wait, and then forgot altogether. The following are only my
opinions, observations and experiences. Keep in mind that I run WinME, not XP.
I'm not one who moves quickly to upgrade or update software, specifically IE & OE. I usually watch
and wait while others fight to work out the bugs. Then, when the most common problems have an
acceptable work-around, I upgrade. The only exception to my *usual* reluctance was with regard to
Microsoft's "critical updates" - these I had no qualms about installing right away, until recently.
A couple months ago I began seeing many little glitches with IE5.5 & OE5.5, which seemed to happen
for no apparent reason. Looking for a fix to solve these sudden annoyances, I decided to upgrade to
IE6 & OE6. In time I managed to get both working acceptably, but never really solved the "glitches"
which I had set out to fix. Then one day, about six weeks ago, I went and installed the most recent
"critical update". That was when my major problems began, for which I had no obvious alternative but
to install another hard drive in order to salvage my data. ( I did not wish to lose my data, which
my recovery disk would have formatted into oblivion. I also had no backups at the time, but now have
all my programs and data on one hard drive, and my OS [WinME] on another. )
To make a long story short, both IE5.5 & OE5.5 *had* been working, almost flawlessly, until I
started regularly installing the critical updates. I truly believe that all the glitches and
problems began there because I had made no other significant changes to my system. My effort to
resolve the problems by upgrading to IE6 & OE6 only seemed to make things worse - at the very least
it did not solve anything. Since formatting my hard drive and clean-installing my OS, I have
returned to IE5.5 & OE5.5 and so far, very few of these "glitches" have returned. I know I'm
generalizing here, as every system is different, but when everything runs fine and there aren't any
major problems, why mess with it?
I have no idea if any of this will help solve your problems, or even if it was the cause of mine,
but to sum it all up I guess I'm saying that I no longer trust IE6 or "critical updates", and will
not be so hasty to upgrade in the future. These, of course, are only my personal opinions.
Al Thompson
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