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Win XP Home SP1 , Explorer & JavaScript

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by wwheat

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On my bosses home machine (Win XP Home) which I get to do tech support for, he was this problem. After installing SP1 his Internet Explorer will not run/open JavaScript links. I have tried the follow without success: uninstall SP1, uninstall IE, re-install SP1 and then re-install IE. I have done this on a machine (Win XP Pro) with the same problem and that work but it did not on the Win XP Home machine. What gives?

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by carol

I guess I'm wondering if the Service Pack changed the Security Settings on IE6. Check these, from IE6 Tools | Internet Options | Security | Custom Level Scroll down to Microsoft VM, Is Disable Java checked?

The setting I have is High Safety.
BTW there are newer service packs, and while I couldn't locate the change in security settings to be a known issue with Service pack 1, I haven't looked too far or too deep.

Good Luck

by nikki96

You are not the only one having this problem. There seem to be several things that can cause this.

Try repairing IE.
Open the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs applet, click MS Internet
Explorer to highlight, click the Add/Remove button, select Repair IE.

If that doesn't help, reinstall WSH.
(big url, watch for spaces)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28001169

Click the link to download WSH 5.6

There are a lot of people who had this problem. There's more answers if you care to peruse Google's Usenet archives.

(another long url)
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=internet+explorer+javascript+links&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N

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