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by sue.ritter 2 views

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A very odd thing happened to my internet explorer. The display is all messed up.

1. On web pages with background wallpaper, all I see is white.
2. Instead of formatting a page to fit the window, on many sites text piles on top of other text if the windows is not maximized.

I have the desktop scheme set to "Windows Standard" and under Internet Options I have the colors set to Windows colors.

Any help would be appreciated. The biggest problem is that I need to check Microsoft's support site a lot and when I go to the knowledge base to do a search I don't see anything. I see the titles but I can't see any of the drop-down's or text boxes to enter my search criteria.

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by cptomlly

Just a shot in the dark here, but have you tried going to Internet Options, Advanced tab, and restoring all defaults?

by cptomlly

Forgot to add... You will have to close and reopen the browser to apply the settings.

by ann777

Go to Tools --> Options --> General Tap and clear out all your History and Cookies. Then (also on the General tab) go to the "Accessibility" button and click it. Make sure that all three boxes are unchecked in the formatting section --> OK --> OK. And see if that resolves everything.

If that fails to clear up everything then exit IE and use Windows Explorer to navigate to your Temporary Internet Files (folder) and delete everything within it (necessary "system" files will be recreated upon reopening IE).

by lizzy

Are you able to change your color settings for your video card to true color, high color and the like? If not, it could be that the drivers for your video card need to be reinstalled. Go to your desktop and right-click anywhere on it and choose Properties. Check what options are available. If only 16 color and 256 color, you may have video card problems.

Anna's instructions for removing the accessibility features should have done this if it is an issue with the browser. Did you recently upgrade Internet Explorer or install any Windows patches? What version of Windows and IE is installed? If you did recently change one of those things, you should look for more updates and\or patches at Microsoft.

by sue.ritter

I'm running IE 6 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 4. I have high color and true color so it isn't the video driver. I have not recently upgraded internet explorer or installed any windows patches.

by rcom

Run something to check for virus and spyware. I use Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy.

Open "Control Panel" and run "App Wiz" (Add Remove Programs). If you have the same visual problems in Control Panel you can run it from "start/run". From the run window type "control.exe appwiz.cpl"

If available run the uninstall for Internet Explorer and try the repair feature or if that doesn't work uninstall it. That will put you back to your original version. Should do the trick. From there you can go to Windows and download the recent version.

by sue.ritter

Ran Adaware and checked for virus. Did not pick up on anything.

Not able to uninstall IE. When I go into Add/Remove Programs I don't see an option to uninstall it.

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