How I fixed my IE6 problem

How I fixed my IE6 problem

Note: This is especially for technically minded people who already have some experience at working at the DOS command prompt.

I had a problem with IE6 with SP1 in Windows XP. For some reason it would not open up new pages when I clicked on certain links within a page. So I tried to find the problem on the Internet and here is the solution that worked for me:

1. Click on Run and type CMD

2. You should now be in the command prompt window. If you are not in C drive change the drive by typing C: and enter

Change the default folder to that of System32 under your windows folder. The commands to do this would be either:

cd \winnt\system32
or:
cd \windows\system32
depending on the windows folder name.

After that type the following commands one at a time.

regsvr32 Shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 Shell32.dll
regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 Actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 Mshtml.dll
regsvr32 Urlmon.dll

If you get any error messages typing commands at the command prompt, it could be that you made a typo and missed a letter some where.

Typing the commands above fixed the problem! It re-registered the DLLs that Internet Explorer apparently needs. I don't know exactly how they got un-registered, but it could be my playing around with registry cleaners that attributed to the problem. But since other people had this problem and posted it on the Internet, I would say it is a bug in IE6.

DISCLAIMER: Please don't hold me responsible if any procedure or software that is recommended on this page gave you negative results. If you don't know what you are doing, it's better not to do it.