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IE 6.0 Objects not appearing

[cocopuff]

I'm new to this group and I'm getting nowhere anywhere else. I installed java SDK 1.4 and Tomcat 4.0 over the weekend. I seriously doubt this has anything to do with my problem but just in case, those are the facts.
Today when I logged on, I noticed my AOL IM home page was getting scripting errors (objects not found). I then went to some random web sites and found that many gifs, jpegs, and other objects were missing. I never touched my security settings or any other IE properties for that matter. Does anybody know what is going on?

[korkus2000]

Have you recently loaded any part of visual studio?

[cocopuff]

No, I haven't. It might have something to do with my environment variables (I added a few last night and the browser worked fine - for awhile). When I restarted my notebook, the problem was back.
I wish I could find some consistency to my problem. i.e. if I go to cnn.com, most of the gifs, jpegs, ...etc. display. If I click on one of the stories, most do not. Same goes for other sites. It's simply not finding objects even though they clearly exist.

Thanks for the response.

[korkus2000]

What version of IE is it? You may have curropted it. I would try an upgrade and see if that fixes the problem.

[grahamstewart]

Could be a dodgy cache?

Delete all your temporary internet files (option under Tools->Internet Options).
Make sure everything is gone, including the cookies and the index.dat files.

Then restart and see what happens.

[cocopuff]

Thanks for the repsonse but I can't even look at it - my browser isn't showing a scrollbar. I don't know if this breaks policy (maybe you can delete this message) but could you please e-mail me your response to <snip>

[edited by: korkus2000 at 7:16 pm (utc) on May 20, 2003]
[edit reason] no emails please [/edit]

[cocopuff]

Sorry ro do this but, unless I post a reply, I can't see the message (no scroll bar being displayed). By posting any reply, it takes me down where I can see the ;ast response.

By the way, I did reinstal; IE 6.0 and grabbed all the updates. It didn't help at all.

[aspr1n]

You've installed the Java SDK, you may find the MS Virtual Machine is no longer handling Java but the Sun one is. Try:

"Tools > Options > Advanced > Java ( Sun )" un-check option

"Tools > Options > Advanced > Microsoft VM" check option "JIT Compiler".

Might help.

asp

[grahamstewart]

You've installed the Java SDK..

Don't see how that would affect "gifs and jpegs".

I have Java 1.4 installed and I don't get any problems with the sites mentioned.

[outrun]

I have experinced that without a reason, all my other browsers would function properly, and then the next day it magically fixed it self up. This probaly wont make you feel better.

regards,
Mark

[cocopuff]

Unfortunately, that is my problem too - magically clears up if I toggle (delete, then reinsert some classpath variables)
It's extremely fustrating because I can't even use many websites (the objects I need don't show up).

I ran a Norton Antivirus but it showed all clear. Has anybody heard of a potential virus that has this pattern?