Having a devil of a time getting IE to work properly. It is a W95 machine upgraded to W98 on a Netware network.
Two things – First, when you go to a site, URL etc, it loads, shows done a bit prematurely, then IE freezes for about 45 to 60 seconds. Happens to each page. Upgraded from 5.0 (still froze up)to 5.5, tried the 5.5 repair/reinstall, then went to 6.0 with all the happy patches (it still froze up).
Second – Oddly enough, when you boot the machine an IE 4.0 Tour window tries to load (ie4tour.dll). It of course, errors out and cannot find the server.
Have looked till I am blue in the registry and elsewhere to find the source of this and come up empty.
After all else failed, I extracted wsock32.dll from a 98 CD and the only change it produced is that the IE 4 Tour window no longer errors out, it produces the correct page, but it still freezes up. Not sure I quite get why a tidbit from IE4 is still hanging around a machine with 6.0 on it.
Have checked forviruses using the installed program and a DOS scanner and it is clean.
Would be nice is you could rip IE out and start from scratch.
Any suggestions? Wiping the machine is not an option since it is has iretrievable programs and data on it forwhich the disks no longer exist.