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by expressobean

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- Cannot download
- Box that gives option, 'save to disk' and 'save to current location' never appears
- Box with 'flying files' appears briefly, then error message
- Error Message-- "IE cannot download from www.xxxx.com. IE was not able to open internet site. The requested site was either unavailable or cannot be found."
- When trying to run something (virus check, security check, etc), from a sites side, receive error message
- Error Message--"ActiveX and/or Scripting is not supported oris not enabled."
- I have done all the obvious : Enabled all ActiveX & scripting, reinstalled IE etc.
- Have run the not so obvious(for a beginner) scan file checker, checked file association, scanreg / restore from DOS etc.
- Tried to troubleshoot from http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/downfile.htm
http://snakefoot.fateback.com/tweak/windows/tips.html among many other sites.
- While running .dll files (Urlmon.dll, Mshtml.dll, Actxprxy.dll, Oleaut32.dll, Shell32.dll etc) all were fine except shell32.dll
- Error Message--"Shell32.dll was loaded but DLLRegistry Server entry point not found. DLLRegistry Server may not be exported, or corrupt version of shell32.dll may be in memory, use PWiew to detect and remove it"

Could this be my problem? Can this be fixed from the Registry Editor? If so, and you can help, please be very simplistic. Me in Registry Editor = very scary.

Thank you

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by expressobean

PS- Im running Win98SE, IE 5.5. I had installed IE6 but uninstalled it and went back to IE 5.5 because I thought it might help this problem. Right around the time this started I downloaded Mapped Drives Shutdown Update - version 4,10,0,2222 - was successfully installed.
10:07:26 PM Thursday, July 18, 2002 : 3662, if that helps at all

by dfgconsulting

If it is a corrupt .DLL, you can copy a good one from another computer onto a disk, boot your computer to a "Safe Mode Command Prompt" (tap F8 during boot before the Windows splash screen to get the menu), and replace the corrupt one on your computer.

If that doesn't work, you may have a virus. The best way is to run a virus check in DOS mode off of a anti-virus boot disk.

by techkid

That dll file is a major component of IE. If reinstalling IE didn't work, the only thing I've been found to work is a clean install of the OS. Especially with Win98

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